Scotland’s digital skills academy appoints new chief operating officer
Scotland’s digital skills academy has appointed a new chief operating officer to help bolster internal operations and drive growth across the country. Neil Brown, who was formerly Project Development Manager…
Tech volunteers develop new online tool to help visually impaired access COVID-19 data
Tech volunteers in Scotland have developed a new online tool to help visually impaired people access COVID-19 data in a useable format. In a ‘world first’, the Scottish Tech Army…
‘We can’t even see your data’, government insists, after contact tracing app privacy fears
The public cloud infrastructure used to host the Scotland’s proximity contact tracing app has been configured so no one can access user data which is entirely anonymised and encrypted at…
Tech entrepreneur appointed new chair for Scotland’s Digital Technologies Skills Group
A technology entrepreneur who founded a leading mobile software development business has been appointed chair of an industry and public sector partnership aimed at boosting digital skills. Ross Tuffee, who…
Scottish Government invests £4m in network of ‘5G hubs’ to accelerate adoption of next generation connectivity
A new nationwide network of 5G hubs is to be created as part of a government-backed £4m funding programme to support the development of next-generation connectivity in Scotland. The first…
Internet access in Scotland has doubled to 88% of all households, new figures show
Internet access in Scotland has doubled to 88% of all households over the course of the last 16 years, according to new government figures. However key findings in the Scottish…
Scotland’s tech economy starting to bounce back as new industry figures show signs of jobs recovery
Scotland’s tech economy is starting to bounce back from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to figures released this week by a UK Government-backed agency. New data analysed by…
Scottish Business Resilience Centre wins tender to deliver cyber training course
The Scottish Business Resilience Centre has won a tender for an undisclosed sum from the Scottish Government to launch and deliver the National Cyber Security Centre’s Exercise in a Box…
Why green recovery is the best hope
Post-coronavirus focus must be on efforts to tackle climate change
Ethical finance poised to unleash the green recovery
Peter Alderdice, Senior Associate, Shepherd and Wedderburn (Left of image) & Daniel Boynton, Solicitor, Shepherd and Wedderburn (Right) The COVID-19 pandemic has made one thing abundantly clear: when disaster strikes,…
