building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
The new Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence, an independent collaboration between governments and regulators, the financial services industry and academia, has been awarded a £22.5m grant from UK Research and Innovation’s Strength in Places Fund.
A burgeoning conversational artificial intelligence (AI) firm that helps drive voice and text assistants for major global firms has chosen Edinburgh for its new research and development (R&D) hub and completed a major funding round. Rasa Technologies has signed up
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been offered a furlough replacement scheme that has been designed by a Scottish fintech pioneer and a leading data company. It comes after David Brown of Toupay and David Costa of NTT Data UK wrote to
Working on many hundreds of technology and outsourcing contracts and contractual disputes each year provides a unique vantage point of the key contract terms and issues that become hot spots for negotiation and disputes. It offers critical insight into aspects
Tech will play an “important part” in the UK’s economic recovery, the Digital Secretary revealed. Support for ‘grassroots’ tech ecosystems will be a key focus of the UK Government’s upcoming digital strategy, according to Digital Secretary Oliver Dowden. Speaking at the
The digital secretary Oliver Dowden is set to launch a new digital strategy positioning the tech sector at the heart of the UK’s economic recovery following the coronavirus crisis. Speaking at the virtual UK Tech Cluster Group conference today (23 June), Dowden
Last week, the UK Geospatial Commission published their five year strategy entitled “Unlocking the power of location”. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/unlocking-the-power-of-locationthe-uks-geospatial-strategy Geospatial data is foundational and the opportunities both within the sector and for many other sectors are substantial. It underpins efforts such
The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to invite proposals to investigate the technical and economic feasibility of space based applications that can pave the way to post-COVID recovery in vertical sectors. ESA anticipates offering 100% funded contracts of up to
The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to seek innovative solutions to prevent and solve the issues of marine litter and especially plastics in water bodies. ESA anticipates offering 100% funded contracts of up to €200,000 to investigate the technical and economic
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking proposals to develop innovative solutions that provide context-specific insights, derived from data, into the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of individual, group and population behaviour. The aim is that these enable making reliable predictions
