New body launched to drive transformation across health and care
A new body to drive transformation across the health and care system and the wider public sector will be established on 1 April 2026. Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland), replacing…
How user-centred design is reshaping Scotland’s health and care services
Do you know Bill? He’s the guy who works at your local distribution centre to make sure your package turns up next-day delivery. Bill is on a zero-hour contract, so…
Record investment year for government-backed initiative to support Scotland’s tech startups
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Changing the DNA of Care: how earlier insight can strengthen Scotland’s social care system
Scotland’s social care system is under extraordinary pressure. Demand is rising. Workforce shortages are chronic. People are living longer with increasingly complex needs. And yet, rightly, we remain committed to supporting people to…
Scaling what works. Why the Futurescot AI Challenge matters for Scotland’s public services
Storm ID is delighted to be the digital partner for the Futurescot AI Challenge 2026, working alongside Futurescot to support public sector organisations to explore, test and scale practical AI…
Scaling what works. Why the Futurescot AI Challenge matters for Scotland’s public services
Storm ID is delighted to be the digital partner for the Futurescot AI Challenge 2026, working alongside Futurescot to support public sector organisations to explore, test and scale practical AI…
AI’s coming of age – how artificial intelligence is finally mature enough to be a tool we can trust
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Denmark showcases digital health innovation at Futurescot’s Health & Social Care Transformation event in Glasgow
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Stirling named as ‘AI anxiety’ capital of Scotland, per new jobs report
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GovTech
Crime prevention boost for Scottish Borders with new CCTV system
A new CCTV system has been installed in seven towns across the Scottish Borders in a boost to local community safety and crime prevention. The cameras – installed on a...
Automate tasks, not jobs: How AI can return 62 million hours to Scotland’s public services
Scotland’s public services are facing a productivity crisis, not just a funding crisis. While the 2026/27 Scottish Budget and Spending Review underline the need for efficiency, the route to achieving...
Crime prevention boost for Scottish Borders with new CCTV system
A new CCTV system has been installed in seven towns across the Scottish Borders in a boost to local community safety and crime prevention. The cameras – installed on a...
Automate tasks, not jobs: How AI can return 62 million hours to Scotland’s public services
Scotland’s public services are facing a productivity crisis, not just a funding crisis. While the 2026/27 Scottish Budget and Spending Review underline the need for efficiency, the route to achieving...
Health & care
New body launched to drive transformation across health and care
A new body to drive transformation across the health and care system and the wider public sector will be established on 1 April 2026. Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland), replacing...
How user-centred design is reshaping Scotland’s health and care services
Do you know Bill? He’s the guy who works at your local distribution centre to make sure your package turns up next-day delivery. Bill is on a zero-hour contract, so...
New body launched to drive transformation across health and care
A new body to drive transformation across the health and care system and the wider public sector will be established on 1 April 2026. Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland), replacing...
How user-centred design is reshaping Scotland’s health and care services
Do you know Bill? He’s the guy who works at your local distribution centre to make sure your package turns up next-day delivery. Bill is on a zero-hour contract, so...
Cyber
Glasgow audience gets insight into National Crime Agency effort to takedown world’s most prolific ransomware gang
Glasgow conference delegates got an insight on Tuesday into an operation led by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to take down the world’s most prolific ransomware gang. Attendees at Futurescot’s...
How Gen AI and rising ransomware trends are shaping public sector cybersecurity
Generative AI is transforming the way organisations work, and the public sector is no exception. While it offers opportunities to increase efficiency and make better use of stretched resources, it...
Glasgow audience gets insight into National Crime Agency effort to takedown world’s most prolific ransomware gang
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How Gen AI and rising ransomware trends are shaping public sector cybersecurity
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Education & Skills
Early years kids get taste of tech with new ‘STEM Starts’ centre in Moray
Early years children are getting a taste of tech with the opening of a new ‘STEM Starts’ centre in Moray. The new centre, based at Elgin Library, was formally launched...
Virtual reality gaming helps get pupils moving at school in Moray
Immersive virtual reality games are helping to encourage pupils at a school in Moray to be more physically active. Gamer2Mover, currently being trialled at Milne’s High School in Fochabers, involves...
Early years kids get taste of tech with new ‘STEM Starts’ centre in Moray
Early years children are getting a taste of tech with the opening of a new ‘STEM Starts’ centre in Moray. The new centre, based at Elgin Library, was formally launched...
Virtual reality gaming helps get pupils moving at school in Moray
Immersive virtual reality games are helping to encourage pupils at a school in Moray to be more physically active. Gamer2Mover, currently being trialled at Milne’s High School in Fochabers, involves...
IoT
Wearable diagnostic brain sensors to medtech implants among ‘deep tech’ ventures emerging from Glasgow accelerator
Fourteen promising startups including wearable diagnostic brain sensors and medtech implants have benefited from a 13-week venture-building programme in Glasgow. A raft of young companies developing ‘deep tech’ applications with the...
Glasgow IoT cluster bolstered by appointment of former Volvo chief executive
A Glasgow-based internet of things (IoT) cluster has been bolstered by the appointment of a former chief executive of car giant Volvo. Jim Rowan, who led the Swedish auto manufacturer...
Wearable diagnostic brain sensors to medtech implants among ‘deep tech’ ventures emerging from Glasgow accelerator
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Glasgow IoT cluster bolstered by appointment of former Volvo chief executive
A Glasgow-based internet of things (IoT) cluster has been bolstered by the appointment of a former chief executive of car giant Volvo. Jim Rowan, who led the Swedish auto manufacturer...
Justice & Policing
Decision to use live facial recognition technology in Scottish policing could take up to two years, warns policing vice chair
A decision to use controversial live facial recognition (LFR) technology in Scottish policing could take up to two years of further scrutiny, the vice chair of the Scottish Police Authority...
Police Scotland undertake proof of concept AI trial – focused on ‘corporate efficiencies’
Police Scotland have been undertaking a proof of concept AI trial focused on ‘corporate efficiencies’ – using Microsoft Copilot in a drive to improve the retrieval of information. The force...
Decision to use live facial recognition technology in Scottish policing could take up to two years, warns policing vice chair
A decision to use controversial live facial recognition (LFR) technology in Scottish policing could take up to two years of further scrutiny, the vice chair of the Scottish Police Authority...
Police Scotland undertake proof of concept AI trial – focused on ‘corporate efficiencies’
Police Scotland have been undertaking a proof of concept AI trial focused on ‘corporate efficiencies’ – using Microsoft Copilot in a drive to improve the retrieval of information. The force...
Infrastructure, Connectivity & Built Environment
Smarter Infrastructure for Justice: Empowering Digital Transformation with LapSafe®
How can frontline justice services become more responsive, more efficient, and more secure, without overloading stretched teams or budgets? That’s the core challenge facing justice organisations in 2025, and exactly...
Scottish electric vehicle infrastructure provider installs 54 charging points at ferry terminal in Sweden
A Scottish electric vehicle infrastructure provider has installed 54 charging points at a ferry terminal in Sweden. FOR EV, an Edinburgh-based company, has worked in partnership with Stena Line to...
Achieve ‘smart’ asset management with these three steps
Managing public infrastructure assets is one of the most complex yet crucial responsibilities that local government decision-makers have to make. Roads, drainage systems, street lighting, public buildings and numerous other...
Data & AI
Scaling what works. Why the Futurescot AI Challenge matters for Scotland’s public services
Storm ID is delighted to be the digital partner for the Futurescot AI Challenge 2026, working alongside Futurescot to support public sector organisations to explore, test and scale practical AI...
AI’s coming of age – how artificial intelligence is finally mature enough to be a tool we can trust
AI has, for some time, been a “what if” – a technological potential that could revolutionise the world. For us here at Access, that means optimising social care provision and commissioning. ...
Stirling named as ‘AI anxiety’ capital of Scotland, per new jobs report
Stirling has been named as the ‘AI anxiety’ capital of Scotland according to a new report which reveals how people are increasingly searching online to see if the technology will...
Software tool developed to monitor Scottish coastal erosion proves its tech credentials on tropical island
A software tool developed by Glasgow researchers to monitor Scottish coastal erosion has proved its tech credentials in the tropical island off Indonesia. VedgeSat, originally tested in St Andrews and...
Business & Economy
Fintech
New research ‘lab’ aims to address growing link between people’s financial situation and their health in later life
A new research ‘lab’ in Edinburgh will aim to address the growing link between people’s financial situations and their health in later life. The Finance and Health Lab, based at...
First decentralised finance summit to take place in Edinburgh next month
Scotland’s financial technology sector takes another step forward this August with the country’s first dedicated decentralized finance summit. The event, at the John McIntyre conference centre, University of Edinburgh, on...
New research ‘lab’ aims to address growing link between people’s financial situation and their health in later life
A new research ‘lab’ in Edinburgh will aim to address the growing link between people’s financial situations and their health in later life. The Finance and Health Lab, based at...
First decentralised finance summit to take place in Edinburgh next month
Scotland’s financial technology sector takes another step forward this August with the country’s first dedicated decentralized finance summit. The event, at the John McIntyre conference centre, University of Edinburgh, on...
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