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Be Positive rebrands with launch of new website

By updatesPosted on 14th March 202214th March 2022Posted in Member News

Be Positive has announced the launch of its new website following a rebrand of the Business Analysis specialists firm. Working alongside Glowfish Creative, the new branding and website was developed, including logo and tagline “We bridge the analysis skills gap”.

Government backs innovative businesses with new £150 million loan scheme

By updatesPosted on 10th March 202210th March 2022Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

Government launches new series of loans worth £150 million to support innovative SMEs and level up the UK launch of the loans programme will broaden the financial support available to businesses, ensuring they can access funding at all stages of

Ring Buffers: High Performance IPC

By updatesPosted on 9th March 202223rd February 2022Posted in Member News

In this blog, learn more about the theory, and practical implementation, of Ring Buffers in Java within the low-latency audio team at Global. The Context At Global, we serve live audio for a multitude of brands all across the UK. These

eCom Learning Solutions joins the DeepWind cluster

By updatesPosted on 8th March 20228th March 2022Posted in Member News

The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Learning Solutions, has become a member of an organisation intended to increase supply chain competitiveness and productivity to the renewable energy sector in Scotland. Known as DeepWind, the organisation aims to maximise its

Educators and industry must come together to inspire the next generation of women in tech

By updatesPosted on 8th March 20228th March 2022Posted in Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

Check out this thought piece from ScotlandIS CEO, Karen Meechan, featured in The Herald for International Women’s Day, discussing the importance of inspiring new generations of women into tech careers. In Scotland’s digital sector there are currently 80 per cent

PODCAST: IoT Smart Cites – The Present and The Future

By updatesPosted on 8th March 20228th March 2022Posted in Member News

Founder of Intelligens Consulting, Iqbal Singh Bedi, spoke to Electronic Specifier on their Insights Podcast, all about Smart Cities and IoT. You can listen to the full podcast, available here. For more on Intelligens’ work supporting clients to accelerate 5G

Help to Grow: Digital – apply to become a vendor

By updatesPosted on 7th March 20227th March 2022Posted in Industry News, Opportunity

Help to Grow: Digital is a UK-wide scheme to help small and medium size businesses (SMEs) adopt digital technologies that are proven to increase their productivity. Applications from providers of e-commerce software are now being encouraged and accepted. The scheme offers SMEs free

Pace introduces White-Box code generator

By updatesPosted on 7th March 20227th March 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

Banks, payment service providers (PSPs), schemes, and other financial institutions can now benefit from a uniquely high level of sensitive data protection and application attack resistance, following the launch of White-Box Works, a next-generation EMVCo-evaluated White-Box code generator, from PACE

From Apprentices to Digital Specialists: Capgemini paving the way for the digital skills gap

By updatesPosted on 4th March 20224th March 2022Posted in Member News, Skills

In 2022, apprenticeships will make up 30% of the UK’s overall recruitment rate, with many of these opportunities aiming to support the wider economic challenge of youth unemployment and the digital skills gap. In the past eight years, Capgemini has trained more than 300

Upskill in 2022 with the University of Strathclyde

By updatesPosted on 4th March 20224th March 2022Posted in Member News, Skills, Opportunity

The University of Strathclyde has been awarded further funding from the Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council to expand their portfolio of fully-funded Upskilling and Microcredentials modules for Scottish based learners in 2022. These are shorter, flexible modules delivered either