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Joint Call 2020 (Micall20) On Digital Transformation For Green Energy Transition

By updatesPosted on 18th December 202018th December 2020Posted in Industry News

Scottish Enterprise is a partner in a new European Research Area Network project that will provide funding for collaborative research and demonstration projects on the digitalisation of energy systems and networks, to support the green energy transition. The overall aim

iomart report highlights complacency of businesses towards cyber security

By updatesPosted on 18th December 202018th December 2020Posted in Member News

Managed cloud services provider iomart has released its Cyber Security Insights Report, looking at attitudes towards cyber security and data protection in the workplace during 2020. The research highlights a worrying complacency by many businesses towards cyber security, with 52%

Skills Development Scotland- CESAP

By updatesPosted on 18th December 202018th December 2020Posted in ScotlandIS News

ScotlandIS welcomes the publication of Skills Development Scotland on the Climate Emergency Skills Action Plan. As a close partner of Skills Development Scotland, we were particularly pleased to see the focus on digital and data skills. As we transition to

2020 – An Explosive Year in Tech

By updatesPosted on 18th December 202018th December 2020Posted in Member News

2020 has been a year like no other for technology. The pandemic accelerated the development, adoption and attitudes to technology on a global scale. Some economies have seen more digital transformation over a matter of months than they had in

Research and Policy: 2020 draws to a close

By updatesPosted on 18th December 202027th January 2021Posted in Brexit, Policy, ScotlandIS News

This month will be my final blog post of 2020, and what a strange year it has been on the policy landscape across the UK. At ScotlandIS, we have endeavoured to keep our members’ interests at the forefront of our

IFB Launches Threat Intelligence Service Amid Rising Covid Cyber Threats

By updatesPosted on 18th December 202018th December 2020Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

Threat Intelligence by IFB is designed to help organisations of all sizes to identify vulnerabilities across their digital business estate. A great deal has changed since the start of 2020, but all of it points to an even greater need

CityFibre and PQMS expand specialist network construction training partnership

By updatesPosted on 17th December 202017th December 2020Posted in Member News

CityFibre, the UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform, has extended its partnership with training specialist PQMS in support of its three-year recruitment and training programme to create up to 10,000 jobs constructing full fibre networks across the UK. PQMS, which

Founders of the Future

By updatesPosted on 16th December 202016th December 2020Posted in Industry News

Founders of the Future is an organisation that offers tools, programmes and events for “future founders” under 30, which are those entrepreneurs that are not running their startup full time but will do so in the future and are interested

Edinburgh Post-Covid AI Accelerator – applications open now!

By updatesPosted on 16th December 202016th December 2020Posted in Member News

Applications are open now until 21 January for the Post-Covid AI Accelerator in Edinburgh. Financed by Scottish Funding Council through DDI, the Accelerator gives data-driven AI scaleups the chance to connect their ideas to the world and support a recovering

Klik2learn secures £90K to lift the lid on the black box of online learning

By updatesPosted on 16th December 202016th December 2020Posted in Member News

Klik2learn, the Education Technology scale-up whose Digital Learning Hub accelerates online English Language learning, has secured a £93,386 grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to evaluate the impact of online learning on students during and beyond the COVID-19