building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
A bus company in the Borders is developing a mobile phone app to try to give people more confidence about returning to public transport. It will tell passengers whether the bus they want to catch is already too full and
An Edinburgh Napier lecturer has created a simple app to help local businesses and charities organise home deliveries during the Covid-19 lockdown. Dr Neil Urquhart, from the School of Computing, based Foodel on a simple program originally designed to teach
Glasgow-based digital chemistry pioneer DeepMatter has said social distancing in laboratories has increased interest in its products although the impact of the coronavirus is making it harder to clinch contracts. DeepMatter has developed technology that allows chemists to record huge amounts of
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
The wake of covid, demand for data has combined with a democratisation of data; the general public are talking about R values and voraciously consuming graphs and figures. One of the hottest topics right now is the debate around the
The last month or so has been difficult for everyone in different ways. For me, context switching has risen to new levels as I’ve been attempting to home school the kids at the same time as working – not an
Bidders are invited to submit proposals to the ARCHIVER pre-commercial procurement. The ARCHIVER (Archiving and Preservation for Research Environments) aims to introduce radical improvements in the area of archiving and digital preservation services to support the IT requirements of EU
Data is key in the response to COVID-19. Everyone has become an armchair epidemiologist. It also generates a raft of data questions and issues. There are huge gaps in the COVID-19 datasets: the real number of cases, the number of
Closing Date: Sign-up now!Funding type: HackathonScheme Value: N/AApplication Restrictions: Applications from companies, alongside biomedical and data scientistsDescription: Please join us for this high profile hackathon designed to accelerate approaches to monitoring, diagnosing and controlling the CoronaVirus.Scheduled Dates: Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 9:00 AM –
Glasgow-headquartered AutoRek, a firm that provides financial controls and regulatory reporting software, has teamed up with Nationwide to offer a data management solution and cloud-powered financial controls for a three-year period, with a two-year extension plan. Gordon McHarg, managing director at
