building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
Prime minister David Cameron has promised fast broadband to everyone in the UK by the end of the current parliament, with a legal right for citizens everywhere to request a connection to broadband with speeds of at least 10Mbps. Cameron
ScotlandIS today announced the award of its CodeClan scholarship to Michael MacLeod, a freelance journalist and former TV producer. CodeClan is Scotland’s first digital skills academy and the ScotlandIS Scholarship was set up to fund one outstanding applicant through the
It’s mid-afternoon at Edinburgh’s Sheraton Grand Hotel and Polly Purvis is taking a short breather. In the next room, chief technology officers as well as key figures from the private and public sectors are touring exhibitors at the annual ScotSoft
A student from Abertay University has been named Young Software Engineer of the Year 2015. Peeter Parna won first prize for an outstanding project combining fluid dynamics, gaming and advanced programming. This is the first time a student from Abertay has won this
Market-leading 3D mapping company Mapix technologies Ltd has been awarded first prize in the e-Placement Scotland Placement of the Year Awards at ScotSoft2015 in recognition of an outstanding student placement. Leif Gehrmann, student of Heriot Watt University, worked with Mapix for three
ScotlandIS has been approached by a company interested in a partnership with a Scottish software business. This company sells workflow and business process automation and performance improvement solutions to large organisations in a range of sectors including the public sector, transport
Scottish Development International has approached ScotlandIS to publicise to members the opportunity to collaborate with two multinational organisations. Huawei is China’s leading digital technology company. Headquartered in Shenzhen, it is mainland China’s largest investor into the UK with 15 offices across
Digital World: Working in Partnership to Promote ICT Careers ScotlandIS have been working with Skills Development Scotland and other partners over the last few years to develop and deliver the ICT and Digital Technologies Skills Investment Plan. Skills Development Scotland
At ScotlandIS, we’re delighted to have signed up to the Scottish Business Pledge. To make the pledge an organisation concerned has to be paying a minimum of the Living Wage (£7.85 per hour) and be working towards a range of
The birth of a second billion-dollar software firm proves Scotland’s potential to create a global technology hub, writes Kristy Dorsey There have been precious few sightings of Scotland’s official animal throughout the centuries, but the modern-day version of the unicorn
