building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
Last week, the UK Geospatial Commission published their five year strategy entitled “Unlocking the power of location”. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unlocking-the-power-of-locationthe-uks-geospatial-strategy Geospatial data is foundational and the opportunities both within the sector and for many other sectors are substantial. It underpins efforts such
The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to invite proposals to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of space based applications that can pave the way to post-COVID recovery in vertical sectors. ESA anticipates offering 100% funded contracts of up to
The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to seek innovative solutions to prevent and solve the issues of marine litter and especially plastics in water bodies. ESA anticipates offering 100% funded contracts of up to €200,000 to investigate the technical and economic
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking proposals to develop innovative solutions that provide context-specific insights, derived from data, into the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of individual, group and population behaviour. The aim is that these enable making reliable predictions
Proposals are requested against two challenges: Challenge 1: Integration of the Intelligent Ship Artificial Intelligence Network (ISAIN) on Agents for Decision-Making (ADeMs) and its subsequent evaluation in partnership with Dstl. Challenge 2: Development of new or enhanced existing ADeMs to
NHS Scotland is seeking innovative solutions to provide psychological support to children and young people with gastrointestinal symptoms but no underlying medical disease, to increase availability of care at Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital. Successful applicants will receive 100% funding and
The firm said it had taken a “historic” final step in its shift from telecoms disruptor to network provider having invested more than £10 million in its “next generation” network. The network was built specifically for businesses and is said
The collaboration will help deliver real-time payments and support solutions to businesses across Scotland. Ethical fintech disruptor Soar has teamed up with Payments and service company Modulr to deliver a real-time payments solution to support responsible lenders in Scotland. The system, powered using Modulr’s
Scotland’s financial services sector is expected to remain a prime location for overseas investors in the post-pandemic economy. Investor sentiment suggests that the UK will continue outperforming the rest of Europe as it did last year and that Scotland will
5G, big data, analytics and AI It’s less than a week until data teams come together at this year’s Spark AI Summit 2020. Over the week of June 22-26, thousands of engineers, scientists, developers and business and tech leaders, who are shaping
