Heather, Author at ScotlandIS

£100k funding to inspire Scotland’s next generation of digital experts

By HeatherPosted on 25th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News, Skills, Diversity and Inclusion

Grants totalling £100,000 have been awarded by Digital Xtra Fund to more than 20 extracurricular programmes across Scotland, in a bid to create the next generation of digital experts. In total, 22 extracurricular initiatives have been awarded grants of up

A message from our CEO, Polly Purvis

By HeatherPosted on 20th February 20194th December 2019Posted in ScotlandIS News

Earlier in the year I shared our plans for 2019 as we move to being a combined cluster management organisation and membership body, with a strong focus on cyber and data. There is another element to our evolution; this is

FarrPoint helps to keep Scotland’s historical land registers safe in the digital age

By HeatherPosted on 19th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News

Registers of Scotland is responsible for keeping public registers of land, property and other legal documents across Scotland. This includes the world’s oldest national land register, the General Register of Sasines, which was created in 1617 as a chronological list

IT and Digital Salary Survey Benchmark 2018

By HeatherPosted on 14th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News

This is fifth annual salary survey from Be-IT. As before, this shows average salary estimates and contractor day rates for a wide range of jobs, at different levels of seniority. This year, we’ve changed the format, so instead of

Commsworld rings up record year for revenues

By HeatherPosted on 13th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News

Commsworld, the Edinburgh-headquartered telecoms and network provider, has dialled up revenues of more than £20 million, marking its most successful year to date. The firm, which was established in 1994 and also has offices in Aberdeen and Glasgow, has been

CityFibre hands Edinburgh network deal to Amey

By HeatherPosted on 12th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News

CityFibre has awarded the next phase of a £100 million high-speed broadband roll out in Edinburgh to infrastructure provider Amey. The existing 150km network in Edinburgh was constructed in less than a year and it currently serves more than 320 schools as

ECCI to help deliver on UK climate targets with new £3.5m city initiative

By HeatherPosted on 6th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News

ECCI will help deliver a new £3.5 million initiative to boost climate action in Edinburgh, Belfast and Leeds, the UK Energy Minister, Claire Perry, announced last week. The Place-based Climate Action Network (P-CAN) aims to help the UK meet its

Top industry speakers announced for Scotland’s first-ever DataTech event

By HeatherPosted on 6th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

Eleven data analysts, developers, engineers and scientists across public sector, academia and industry will speak at the inaugural DataTech event at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh on the 14th March. After responding to a call for proposals, the speakers have been selected

Stirling’s thinkWhere To Develop Online Map Portal for European Government Data

By HeatherPosted on 6th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

thinkWhere is developing an online mapping portal to improve access to official European data. As part of the Open European Location Services (Open ELS) project, thinkWhere will develop a web system giving registered users access to ‘geospatial’ data from public authorities

Atos delivers one of the most powerful quantum simulators in the world to Hartree Centre

By HeatherPosted on 5th February 20195th December 2019Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announces an agreement with the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre that will see one of the UK’s leading high-performance computing research facilities take the first UK delivery of an