building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
EMPLOYERS often have a stereotypical picture in their minds of the staff working in their information technology (IT) departments – unshaven men wearing Warhammer T-shirts and pairs of faded jeans, hiding behind computer screens. Yet that caricature is quickly disappearing.
ScotlandIS, the trade body for the digital technologies industry, has announced the appointment of Allan Sutherland, as its Grampian Co-ordinator. Sutherland will play a key role in promoting and lobbying on behalf of the digital technology sector in the North East and Aberdeen. Home
Creating more billion-dollar businesses in Scotland and nurturing the next generation of talent is the aim of a project that has been launched by a start-up accelerator, which argues that more support is required to boost firms beyond their initial
ONE in 25 Scots is now employed by the country’s booming technology sector. There are more than 1,000 workplaces in the IT and telecoms sectors, worth an estimated £4 billion annually. The figures are revealed in the annual Scottish Technology
The government has created a new group which will focus on reforming the UK’s digital public services. The government has been focused on making things ‘digital by default’ since 2010 under former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude. His replacement, Matt
It is expected that job growth in Scotland will be particularly concentrated in areas such as software development, software engineering and web development. Particular essential skill was Java. There has already been a 50 per cent increase in demand for
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
