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…
ScotlandIS chief executive Polly Purvis to retire
Polly Purvis, the chief executive of ScotlandIS, who has been with the digital technologies industry organisation since its inception in 2000 and has led it for the past six years,…
SnapDragon names Craneware co-founder as chairman
Online brand protection company SnapDragon has named a co-founder of one of Scotland’s unicorns as its chairman. Gordon Craig, who co-founded Craneware with Keith Neilson in 1999, brings extensive international experience, having…
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