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eCom Scotland offers help to the UK’s training-starved Pharmacies

By updatesPosted on 7th July 20217th July 2021Posted in Member News

The digital learning and assessment specialist, eCom Scotland, is offering help to the UK’s 12,000 or so retail pharmacies – in particular, to help meet pharmacists’ need for education and training on digital technologies. This need was revealed via recent

Frog Systems Giving UK Job Hunters a Helping Hand Through New Platform

By updatesPosted on 6th July 202115th October 2021Posted in Member News

Scottish tech startup Frog Systems has released a new online platform that connects job seekers directly with local support to help them find work. The ASK SETH platform, which stands for Skills, Employment, Training and Help, is being launched by the Employment

Northgate Public Services becomes NEC Software Solutions

By updatesPosted on 2nd July 20212nd July 2021Posted in Member News

From 1st July, Northgate Public Services (NPS) has a new name and will now be known as NEC Software Solutions. Since being acquired by the NEC group in 2018, NEC Software Solutions’ customers have benefited from the parent company’s expertise in cutting edge

This year’s Be-IT Research Project: Sexism, Diversity & Inclusion

By updatesPosted on 1st July 20211st July 2021Posted in Member News, Diversity and Inclusion

This blog from Nikola Kelly, MD of Be-IT, and Alastair Blair, thePotentMix, introduces their summer research project which explores the current opinions on sexism and gender diversity in the IT industry, and the degree to which these have changed in

University of Edinburgh AI Accelerator

By updatesPosted on 30th June 202130th June 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandISData, Opportunity

The AI Accelerator is back! Applications have now opened to attract the best data-driven AI scaleups looking to make transformative change. Based at the University of Edinburgh’s world-leading innovation hub – the Bayes Centre – the Accelerator will give data

AutoRek wins ‘Best CASS Solution’ Award at Goodacre’s Systems in the City FinTech Awards 2021

By updatesPosted on 30th June 202130th June 2021Posted in Member News

Leading fintech company, AutoRek, is delighted to have been recognised at the Systems in the City Financial Technology Awards 2021 in both the ‘Best CASS Solution’ and ‘Best Wealth Management Solution’ categories and are excited to have achieved the accolade ‘Best

‘Climate Tech’ a major opportunity for Scotland’s economy, says report

By updatesPosted on 30th June 202130th June 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandIS News, Climate Tech

Industry ‘think-and-do tank’ calls for national innovation mission behind Climate Tech. A new report has been produced by the Scottish Council for Development and Industry (SCDI), BT, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and ScotlandIS. It outlines Scotland’s potential to be

Put on your virtual cape and use your skills to help others

By updatesPosted on 30th June 202130th June 2021Posted in Member News, Skills, ScotlandIS News

Read this blog from Sopra Steria’s Head of Public Sector Consulting Scotland, Jackie Smith, as she relives her part in the ScotlandIS Digital Technology Awards last week, and the inspiration she found from it. It has been another strange and

Digital Xtra Fund: Schools’ lack of computing teachers is a major error

By updatesPosted on 30th June 202130th June 2021Posted in Member News, Skills

Scotland’s shortage of classroom coding experts means tech clubs funded by Digital Xtra Fund may be the only way for some pupils to learn the skill. We may finally be at the point where the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic

From Digital Transformation to Clean Transformation

By updatesPosted on 30th June 202130th June 2021Posted in Member News, Climate Tech

This blog from Informed Solutions UK CEO, Seth Finegan, discusses the drive for clean transformation in the tech industry. Where we once envisioned digital versions of traditional services and businesses, now we are thinking about the clean version of services