From Backlogs to Better Care: Red Star’s ADHD Platform
Scotland is facing an unprecedented rise in mental health challenges, with ADHD emerging as a significant concern. As highlighted in the NAIT Adult Neurodevelopmental Pathways report, from 2020 to 2023,…
Five-day festival to celebrate ‘vibrancy’ of ethnic minority communities in Scotland
A five-day festival and summit will celebrate the ‘vibrancy’ of ethnic minority communities in Scotland later this month. The annual Scottish Ethnic Minority Talent Summit and Festival 2024 takes place…
Deryck Mitchelson to step down from NHS digital role in Scotland
One of the key figures behind national tech platforms rolled out by the NHS in Scotland in response to Covid is to step down from his role. Deryck Mitchelson is…
Defying the odds
Twenty-five women moving the needle in Scotland’s digital technologies sector The experience of women in tech has shifted significantly over the span of Carolyn Jameson’s 30-year career in the sector….
Scotland’s national economic development agency appoints new chief executive
Scotland’s national economic development agency has appointed a new chief executive to lead the post-Covid recovery and boost growth. Adrian Gillespie – who spent 16 years in leadership positions with…
40 million unused devices ‘stockpiled’ as natural sources of phone components run out
Forty million unused devices are being ‘stockpiled’ across the UK as the raw materials to make phone components run out, new research has shown. Old phones and tablets are ‘gathering…
Scots wartime codebreaker receives France’s highest civilian and military honour
A Scots languages student who became a wartime codebreaker because of her ability to see patterns in words and letters has received France’s highest civilian and military honour. Helene Aldwinckle,…
Gillian Docherty awarded an OBE
Gillian Docherty, the chief executive of The Data Lab, one of Scotland’s eight innovation centres, has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Docherty, a former IBM executive…
The Next Big Thing (part two?)
From raising a million and speaking in Beverly Hills alongside Will.i.am, to liquidation and the Number 14 Leith bus; a cautionary tale from Scotland’s start-up scene If, in Internet years,…
World Wide Web must emerge from ‘adolescence’, says creator on 30th anniversary
The World Wide Web needs to rediscover its strengths and grow into maturity, its designer Tim Berners-Lee said today at the beginning of a celebration to mark the 30th anniversary…
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