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FarrPoint advising provincial government on first Canadian project

By updatesPosted on 17th November 2021Posted in Member News

Digital connectivity consultancy FarrPoint is working with the Government of New Brunswick in Canada, the largest of Canada’s three maritime provinces, to deliver a new mobile mapping project across the roads of the 72,908 km² province. With New Brunswick’s residents and businesses reporting mobile connectivity issues, the Government of New Brunswick has turned to FarrPoint and its Mobile Coverage Mapper tool to capture an accurate picture

Green skills training opportunities launched to support COP26 ambitions

By updatesPosted on 17th November 2021Posted in Member News, Skills, Climate Tech

As the sun sets on the activities of COP26, Borders College have launched a range of training and learning opportunities to help businesses in Scotland deliver on their own climate change ambitions. The menu of over a dozen environmentally focused

Who Shares Wins: Overcoming the NHS Interoperability Challenge

By updatesPosted on 17th November 2021Posted in Member News, Case Study

Take a look at this article on healthcare transformation from Informed Solutions’ Transformation Director, Justin Hassall. With the benefit of several decades experience in digital project and programme delivery, most recently as a Transformation Director for an international digital service

Why smart towns and smart communities are as important as smart cities

By updatesPosted on 15th November 2021Posted in Member News, Climate Tech

FarrPoint’s Senior Consultant Steve Smith explores the smart places topic and explains why we need to move beyond Smart Cities to help towns and communities achieve the benefits of becoming ‘smart’. The smart city concept is nothing new, and despite

SCOTLANDIS MAKES FIVE BOARD APPOINTMENTS

By updatesPosted on 15th November 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandIS News

ScotlandIS has appointed five new members to its board, representing a variety of segments of Scotland’s digital technologies industry as well as academia. Each individual brings a diverse and valuable background to the Board, with shared ambitions to develop Scotland’s

“Empowering Women…” Week Closes with Leadership Talk from Adarma CMO

By updatesPosted on 12th November 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

A week-long series of workshops focused on addressing the lack of gender diversity in leadership across the digital and cyber security communities concludes today in Edinburgh. “Empowering Women to Lead Digital Transformation/Cyber Security”, is a collaboration between leadership coaching consultants

Cyber Specialisms: Space

By updatesPosted on 12th November 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber

This blog from Cyber Development Lead, David, explores how the cyber sector can collaborate with the space sector. In addition to our current specialisms project we are also working to identify how best the cyber sector can assist in the

UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration Launches New Website

By updatesPosted on 11th November 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber

UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration (UKC3) has been launched to support Cyber Clusters and encourage greater collaboration across regions and nations of the UK. UKC3 promotes collaboration, knowledge exchange and sharing of best practice between cyber clusters in order to develop

ScotlandIS Members Grove

By updatesPosted on 11th November 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandIS News, Climate Tech

We are pleased to announce that ScotlandIS are introducing a new ‘rewilding’ initiative, linked to our current membership and any new members that join our organisation from now on. What is rewilding? Rewilding activities are conservation efforts, aimed at restoring

Morgan Stanley VP Shares Leadership Journey with “Empowering Women to Lead Cyber Security” Initiative

By updatesPosted on 11th November 2021Posted in Member News, Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

The twenty four cyber security professionals selected to join the inaugural “Empowering Women to Lead Cyber Security” initiative have reconvened in Edinburgh this week for the second round of group activities which form the core of this new programme. The