building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
The government is carrying out research to understand and measure the UK AI labour market. This will help inform future policy and strategy. The government is undertaking a survey of UK businesses and charities to help understand the UK AI
Following the recent publication of the UK Geospatial Commission’s strategy, we asked several of our members their thoughts and reaction to the geospatial strategy. Dr Michael Grove of environmental data specialist, Topolytics, had this to say: “As a Geographer and
Skills Development Scotland has launched new guides and resources for careers in Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Software Development, in partnership with ScotlandIS, The Data Lab and Scottish Enterprise. These resources highlight the variety of job roles that exist
Independent Scottish based service provider VKY Intelligent Automation has picked up a leading-edge Council contract following a tender procured through the UK Government G Cloud 11 framework. West Dunbartonshire Council has announced it has selected independent service provider VKY Intelligent
It’s the holidays! I’m looking forward to a couple of weeks off at the end of July and just hoping the weather will improve, as I’m not getting further than Scotland this year. The Geospatial “space” has been active lately.
ScotlandIS becomes first organisation in Scotland to be awarded Silver Cluster Management Excellence accreditation for its support to digital and tech clusters ScotlandIS has achieved a UK first, having been awarded Silver Excellence from the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis
A burgeoning conversational artificial intelligence (AI) firm that helps drive voice and text assistants for major global firms has chosen Edinburgh for its new research and development (R&D) hub and completed a major funding round. Rasa Technologies has signed up
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
A project which aims to transform Perth from fair city into one of Europe’s most sustainable will play a part in creating the new post-Covid economy, it has been claimed. Tayside is believed to have been among the biggest casualties
Edinburgh start-up Blockchain Technology Partners (BTP) has appointed Paul Forrest as chairman after completing a funding round led by Standard Life Aberdeen veterans Martin Gilbert and Andrew Laing. Forrest is a strategy consultant who has worked with firms such as
