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This morning, ScotlandIS convened our Policy Steering Group to meet with the UK Home Office Migration team. The Home Office detailed the latest legislation changes which will come into force on January 31st 2021. The team spoke at length about
Last week, ScotlandIS convened our second Cross Sectoral Steering Group with guest speakers Mr Ivan McKee, Minister for Trade, Investment and Innovation, and Josh Ryan-Saha, Director of TravelTech for Scotland. Mr McKee discussed Scotland’s place in the world and how
Today, ScotlandIS Research and Policy Manager, Marc Strathie, chaired a roundtable to focus on the state of Digital Infrastructure and Connectivity across Scotland. We heard from Ricky Nicol, CEO, Commsworld, and Iqbal Beddi, Director, Intelligens Consulting. Ricky provided an overview
This morning the ScotlandIS Policy Steering Group met for the first time since it’s formation last month. The Policy Steering Group will be the primary policy-making body for ScotlandIS alongside the Chief Executive and Research and Policy Manager and will inform
This morning, ScotlandIS, Research and Policy Manager, Marc Strathie attended a roundtable with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland, Iain Stewart MP. ScotlandIS highlighted the resilience of the digital and tech sector throughout the pandemic and the support the
ScotlandIS are responding to the upcoming Scottish Parliament’s Public Audit and Post-legislative Scrutiny Committee on the operation of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016 (“the Lobbying Act”). The Lobbying Act makes provision for a public lobbying register in which organisations are required to record any
This morning, Jane Morrison-Ross, ScotlandIS CEO, met with Fiona Hyslop MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Fair Work and Culture, for a valuable and insightful discussion in response to the recently published Economic Advisory Group’s report. It was a very positive
Today ScotlandIS CEO and Research and Policy Manager met with Willie Watt, Chair of the Scottish National Investment Bank. ScotlandIS highlighted the important role digital and tech SMEs will have to play in Scotland’s economic recovery and how SNIB could
Please take a couple of minutes to catch up with what’s been happening in ScotlandIS, find out more about Digital Nation, our annual conference, our new Cross Sector Policy Board and more.
We sent the following letter to Deputy First Minister, John Swinney and Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Kate Forbes on Wednesday 24th June 2020. Dear Mr Swinney & Ms Forbes, We write to you in response to the Report from the
