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New North Coast 500 map pairs beauty hotspots with coverage not-spots

By updatesPosted on 19th April 202219th April 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

Holiday makers planning to take on Scotland’s most well-known road trip are being advised to adequately plan and prepare before setting off, after a new map has highlighted the lack of 4G coverage available along parts of the North Coast

CityFibre gets to work on future-proofing Luton’s digital foundations as part of £45m Full Fibre investment

By updatesPosted on 12th April 202212th April 2022Posted in Member News

Work to bring full fibre connectivity within reach of almost every home and business in Luton gets underway as CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent full fibre platform, breaks ground on a new infrastructure rollout that will future-proof the digital needs

Space Intelligence one of 7 finalists in global space innovation challenge

By updatesPosted on 12th April 202214th April 2022Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData

ScotlandIS member, Space Intelligence, has made it into the final phase of the GRAVITY Challenge 04 – the fourth round of a global space innovation program connecting real world problems with the experts who can solve them. Seven technology companies

Leadership and Identity skills with Edinburgh Napier and Women into Tech

By updatesPosted on 11th April 202211th April 2022Posted in Member News, Skills, Diversity and Inclusion, Opportunity

If you are a current or aspiring leader working in technology in Scotland who identifies as a woman, then the Edinburgh Napier University Leadership and Identity short course is designed for you. This live online course runs over 3 separate

Borders College Community Renewal Fund free courses

By updatesPosted on 11th April 202211th April 2022Posted in Member News, Skills, Opportunity

The Community Renewal Fund (CRF) has been developed by the UK Government to provide fully funded training opportunities to support the economic recovery as we transition out of the COVID pandemic. The aim of the fund is to encourage innovative schemes to

£5 million to develop carbon dioxide utilisation technology

By updatesPosted on 11th April 202211th April 2022Posted in Member News, Industry News, Climate Tech

A new fund to help develop the emerging CO2 utilisation technology has been launched. The CO2 Utilisation Challenge Fund will help businesses and organisations develop and commercialise the technology, which involves harnessing and converting CO2 – the biggest contributor to

CityFibre receives internationally-recognised gold award for high health and safety standards

By updatesPosted on 7th April 20227th April 2022Posted in Member News

CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent Full Fibre platform, has received a Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Gold Health and Safety Award for working hard to ensure its staff and build partners operate in a safe environment. RoSPA

The Big Interview: David Farquhar, CEO of Intelligent Growth Solutions

By updatesPosted on 6th April 20226th April 2022Posted in Member News, Climate Tech

David Farquhar is the chief executive of Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), which specialises in technology regarding “vertical farming” – growing crops indoors in layers stacked on top of each other. The Edinburgh-based company was founded in 2013, saying it harnessed

Security Considerations when Implementing IoT

By updatesPosted on 6th April 20226th April 2022Posted in Member News

Check out this blog article from Intelligens Consulting, looking at the risks of implementing IoT and how to help prevent these. In the first half of 2021 there were over 1.5 billion IoT related cyber security attacks, more than double

Informed Solutions Appointed to the Crown Commercial Service’s £4bn Digital Specialists and Programmes Framework

By updatesPosted on 6th April 20226th April 2022Posted in Member News

Informed Solutions has been awarded a place on the Digital Specialists and Programmes Framework run by Crown Commercial Service. Through this new framework Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has put in place a pan-Government Collaborative Agreement for the provision of digital,