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Tackling climate crisis through artificial intelligence

By updatesPosted on 27th January 202027th January 2020Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

Companies are benefiting from £170,000 of Scottish Government funding to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help tackle the global climate emergency. Six applicants have been chosen to develop AI-enabled technology through the Can Do Innovation Challenge Fund, managed by Scottish

Geovation Scotland Accelerator Programme

By updatesPosted on 23rd January 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity, ScotlandISData

Another round of new funding and support is now available through the Geovation Scotland Accelerator Programme. This is offers successful applicants up to £15,000 each and access to data, mentoring and resources provides by Registers of Scotland and Ordnance Survey.

ICO design code prioritises children’s privacy online

By updatesPosted on 23rd January 202023rd January 2020Posted in Industry News, ScotlandISData

Standards that would force tech companies to prioritise children’s privacy online have been published by the UK’s data regulator. The final Age Appropriate Design Code has been published by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which hopes will come into effect by the

‘Robot Burns’ poems created by artificial intelligence

By updatesPosted on 23rd January 202023rd January 2020Posted in Industry News, ScotlandISData

They are some of the most well-known and loved poems in the world whose insightful sentiments have withstood the test of time over hundreds of years. But now a student at the University of Glasgow has used a “Robot Burns”

AKA exhibiting AI robot Musio at V&A Dundee

By updatesPosted on 20th January 202020th January 2020Posted in Industry News, ScotlandISData

AKA is showcasing its English conversational artificial intelligence (AI) robot ‘Musio’ at the V&A Dundee’s current exhibition, ‘Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine’. The exhibition explores our relationships with robotics, also looking at the history of robots and the roles bots play

Market visit to the Netherlands

By updatesPosted on 16th January 202016th January 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity, ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandISData

Explore opportunities to grow your business on our three-day multi-sector market visit to Amsterdam and The Hague on 23-25 March 2020. Why the Netherlands? The Netherlands offers great opportunities for Scottish companies looking to break into Europe. Being close to

Police Scotland confirms roll-out of cyber kiosk technology

By updatesPosted on 15th January 202015th January 2020Posted in Industry News, ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandISData

Police Scotland has confirmed that the phased roll-out of cyber kiosk technology will begin on 20 January 2020. Cyber kiosks are desktop computers, which will be located in police stations across local policing divisions. The technology allows specially trained officers

ICO’s ExplAIn draft guidance and consultation

By updatesPosted on 15th January 202015th January 2020Posted in ScotlandIS News, ScotlandISData

Katy Guthrie, Head of ScotlandIS Data The ICO, in partnership with the Alan Turing Institute, have published draft guidance on Explainable AI and they are looking for feedback on this. This guidance is intended to enable organisations to explain to

AI tech projects get funding to help warship crews tackle ‘information overload’

By updatesPosted on 15th January 202015th January 2020Posted in Industry News, Opportunity, ScotlandISCyber, ScotlandISData

Artificial intelligence research projects developing technologies to help warship crews cope with “information overload” will receive £1 million in funding, the Ministry of Defence has announced. Nine projects will share the money awarded through the Defence and Security Accelerator (Dasa)’s

Dundee Rolls Out New High-Tech Buses Over the Weekend

By updatesPosted on 14th January 202015th January 2020Posted in Industry News, MaaS Scotland, ScotlandISData

The Xplore double deckers feature more leg room, free WiFi, USB charging and cameras instead of wing mirrors. Nine new high-tech low-emission buses that have cameras instead of wing mirrors have hit the roads of Dundee this past weekend. The