building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
Charities across Scotland are getting a digital boost during lockdown from a motivated team of hi-tech volunteers called the Scottish Tech Army. Since its launch just over eight weeks ago, this 850-strong team of volunteers has helped over 70 organisations, many of them charities like
Independent Scottish based service provider VKY Intelligent Automation has picked up a leading-edge Council contract following a tender procured through the UK Government G Cloud 11 framework. West Dunbartonshire Council has announced it has selected independent service provider VKY Intelligent
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
Young people from Inverness and London have linked up on a social entrepreneurial push made possible by the coronavirus lockdown. Extending the reach of virtual meetings means a group from the Inverness-based IT specialist the Apprentice Store has connected with young people
An award-winning Scottish technology consultancy has been named as one of the UK’s 30 highest performing learning providers following the release of a prestigious annual report. Appetite for Business has been commended by the Learning and Performance Institute (LPI), the UK’s
The popularity of SD-WANs for enterprise networks is taking off, but some users are concerned about exposing their traffic to the public internet. Alan Burkitt-Gray looks at the steps MEF, vendors and carriers are taking. Security has become an essential
£38 million for high growth companies A comprehensive package of support for innovative early stage businesses whose routes to investment and growth have been impacted by coronavirus (COVID-19) has been announced by Economy Secretary Fiona Hyslop. The £38m package, managed
It’s the holidays! I’m looking forward to a couple of weeks off at the end of July and just hoping the weather will improve, as I’m not getting further than Scotland this year. The Geospatial “space” has been active lately.
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
