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BCS: Legal Protection Required for ‘Human Review’ in AI Decisions

By updatesPosted on 14th October 202115th October 2021Posted in Member News, Industry News

The professional body for IT has warned that human review of AI decision making should not go without legal protections. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT said that, as AI doesn’t always involve personal data to make decisions about us, true

Over 90% of Companies Hit by Supply Chain Cybersecurity Breaches

By updatesPosted on 14th October 202115th October 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

New cybersecurity research has found that 97% of surveyed companies suffered ill-effects due to a breach occurring in their supply chains. In addition, 93% of the companies said that weaknesses in their supply chain had led to a direct cybersecurity

NCSC Head: Ransomware “Most Immediate Danger” to UK Businesses

By updatesPosted on 14th October 202115th October 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber, Industry News

Head of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Lindy Cameron, has singled out Russia as the biggest perpetrator of ransomware attacks. Speaking at a Chatham House Cyber conference, Cameron said that ransomware attacks pose a threat to everyone, from schools to large

Cyber Cluster: Driving growth and innovation

By updatesPosted on 14th October 202114th October 2021Posted in ScotlandISCyber

Ciara Mitchell, Head of the Cyber Cluster, has written her monthly blog around how the cluster helps drive innovation across Scotland. One of the aims of any cluster is to support and drive growth of that sector with a particular

Digital Xtra Fund selects 22 initiatives to drive digital skills for young people in Scotland

By updatesPosted on 13th October 202113th October 2021Posted in Member News, Skills

Digital Xtra Fund, a Scottish charity that is backed by both the public and corporate sectors, has selected 22 initiatives to help drive digital skills for young people aged 16 and under in Scotland. The funding ranges from delivering coding

Head Resourcing Celebrating Women In STEM – Conversation with Karen Meechan

By updatesPosted on 12th October 202112th October 2021Posted in Member News, Diversity and Inclusion, ScotlandIS News

In honour of Ada Lovelace Day, Head Resourcing are kicking off their “Celebrating Women in STEM” series with an interview with ScotlandIS CEO, Karen Meechan. The series aims to engage in conversations with inspirational women in STEM in order to

Morgan Stanley Return to Work Programme 2022

By updatesPosted on 12th October 202112th October 2021Posted in Member News, Skills, Opportunity

In today’s world, successful careers are fluid and often do not follow a traditional path. Morgan Stanley’s Return to Work program is an opportunity to re-engage for those that have taken a career break for two or more years. During

ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY STUDENT WINS TOP AWARD FOR CREATING AI-POWERED MUSIC COMPOSITION TOOL

By updatesPosted on 8th October 20218th October 2021Posted in Member News, Skills, Industry News, ScotlandIS News

Additional three Scottish university students recognised for exemplary innovation in software engineering A student at Aberdeen University has been named Young Software Engineer of the Year 2021 at the ScotlandIS ScotSoft2021 awards ceremony in Edinburgh yesterday evening (7th October). Stepan

Discounted cyber courses for Cyber Security Awareness Month

By updatesPosted on 6th October 20216th October 2021Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber, Skills

In support of #CyberSecurityAwarenessMonth, OSP Cyber Academy are offering a discount to their Affiliate Partner Customers. Any customer of ScotlandIS will receive 20% off their entire library of courses, when purchased during the month of October. In order to receive

Three Scottish Finalists Revealed for Startup Summit Competition

By updatesPosted on 6th October 202115th October 2021Posted in Member News, Industry News, Climate Tech

Three Scottish tech for good entrepreneurs, including one ScotlandIS member, have progressed from the semi-finals of the Startup Summit Competition and will now compete for the grand prize. Judges from FutureX, Johnston Carmichael, STV and ClearSky Logic selected Christian Arno (Pawprint), Lynne