building, supporting and enabling the digital technology ecosystem
THE chief executive of trade body ScotlandIS has been appointed as the first chair of digital skills academy CodeClan. Polly Purvis had worked as part of the project team which created CodeClan. Harvey Wheaton, chief executive of CodeClan, said: “Polly has
ScotlandIS would like to wish all our members a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! Best wishes from Polly and the ScotlandIS team.
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
