building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
Location technology developed for concerts, sports events and transport hubs is being tested for use in providing social distancing alerts as Britain slowly returns to work. Wyld Networks is trialling a monitoring app with a company that promotes innovations in
Work has restarted on building critical digital infrastructure in Inverness, including NHS sites such as Raigmore Hospital being treated as a priority due to the Coronavirus. Construction activity initially began in autumn last year but was put on hold at
“Consider cloud solutions before alternatives.” That isn’t our slightly underwhelming sales pitch – it’s the pointed advice from the government’s own web page on its ‘Cloud-First’ policy, launched back in 2013. Since then the public sector has spent billions of
Continuum Industries has secured £1.5m funding. The Edinburgh construction tech firm provides AI tools for engineering professionals to rapidly design linear infrastructure projects and reduce their costs. It says the seed round will support infrastructure planners and designers to plot
Equate Scotland has published the findings of a new report looking at the experiences of more than 400 women working in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) professions. The report suggests that urgent action is required to address the issue of inequality
The Scottish Government’s Pivotal Enterprise Resilience Fund (PERF), available to SME firms that are vital to Scotland’s economy and have been impacted by COVID-19 reopens this morning – but will likely close by 5pm Monday 18th May. The enterprise agencies
Brightsolid, the managed hybrid cloud services company, has today launched Cloud Foundations, a new product that will allow organisations to quickly launch secure and compliant AWS clouds, removing the complexities often associated with AWS cloud deployments. The product – which Brightsolid
An Edinburgh-based technology firm has launched a wrist-worn device that will alert workers and their employers if they stray within two metres of a colleague. The ‘Safedistance’ gadget has been devised by Reactec based on existing technology designed to protect
As the UK moves into the next phase of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, organisations will face a new set of challenges when it comes to thinking about data protection compliance. In this update we look at three areas:
Under the umbrella of “DATA against COVID-19”, EIT Digital is rapidly mobilizing and supporting its community as well as the broader European innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem to overcome the current crisis. For example, the DeepHack that we organized in early May brought
