South Lanarkshire council slashes energy costs with renewables-powered datacentre
A Scottish local authority has massively reduced its carbon footprint after upgrading and moving its digital and IT services provision to a renewables-powered datacentre. South Lanarkshire council is transforming its…
Edinburgh tech firm to use AI to produce fuel poverty risk maps across the UK
An Edinburgh-based tech firm has partnered with a nationwide smart meter company to produce fuel poverty risk maps across the UK. UrbanTide’s powerful AI platform uZero will use anonymised smart…
Digital ethics maturity in central and devolved government
At this unsettling time of economic disruption and uncertainty, it’s more important than ever to ensure public sector services are being delivered efficiently and effectively. Delivering such services within ever-tightening…
Edinburgh employee engagement platform signs ‘game-changing’ deal with global IT firm
An Edinburgh employee engagement and wellbeing tool will be able to share its technology with the customers of one of the world’s largest IT services firms. Trickle, which allows managers…
Setting the pace for digital agility
Digital growth has been accelerated by the demands of the global pandemic. Both private and public sector organisations have relied on technology more than ever for business continuity and innovation to understand…
Tech solutions to support Scotland’s environment receive £2.6m boost
Tech solutions to support the environment in Scotland are being sought through a national innovation accelerator programme. CivTech – the Scottish Government’s flagship procurement programme to match tech sector expertise…
RoS vision maps out digital future
Registers of Scotland (RoS) is in the midst of an exciting transformation that will see it at the forefront of government bodies delivering services digitally. As a non-ministerial office of…
CivTech Scotland launches two new challenges
CivTech Scotland – the Scottish Government’s public sector technology accelerator programme – is launching two new challenges to kickstart its eighth cohort. And for the first time the programme will…
Power up a net zero future through digital
Faced with transitioning to cleaner and renewable sources, the energy sector needs to unlock the potential of data and embrace digitalisation to enable greater opportunities to integrate, consolidate and optimise…
Dream home in the cloud
Explaining the technical aspects of cloud computing can be a challenge, even for those relatively well-versed in the digital vernacular. John Campbell, helpfully, likes to think of the cloud as…
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