Connecting Scotland:
A World Class Digital Vision
4 February 2015
Jane Morgan, Digital Directorate
Head of Digital Connectivity, Economy & Data
Scottish Government
Scotland is well positioned to take full advantage of
all the opportunities of the digital age.
Scotland’s Digital Future
Digital Public Services
Digital Economy
Digital Connectivity
Digital Participation
Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband
£410 million investment in two projects – Highlands and Islands and Rest of Scotland
Community Broadband Scotland
• Targeted at those communities in the last 5% least likely to benefit from a superfast broadband solution.
• Helps communities with advice, guidance and funding to deliver community-owned projects at the scale required to deliver robust, sustainable solutions.
• Launched in 2012, will run until at least March 2018, £7.5m budget
www.communitybroadbandscotland.org
Mobile connectivity
• Use of mobile data growing rapidly.
• Driving substantial investment in mobile networks - £5 billion in the UK in 2013.
• Recent study by SQW suggested substantial improvements in business and public sector productivity through better voice and data services.
• But Scotland faces particular challenges in terms of coverage:
– Worst 3G coverage of the UK nations.
– Only partially mitigated by the UK Mobile Infrastructure Project.
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World Class Digital Infrastructure
Geography & disparate
population
Transformation of existing
infrastructure
Existing private & public
programmes
Demand stimulation
Innovation, collaboration &
partnership
Infrastructure gaps &
solutions
Funding & procurement mechanisms
Industry & public sector engagement
Partnership with Scottish Futures Trust to develop a route-map for delivering world class digital infrastructure
Digital connectivity: Private investment
Demonstrating Digital
• Position Scotland as a country that welcomes
and encourages world class innovation in
mobile, wireless and fixed technologies as a
potential stimulus to economic growth.
• A series of pilot projects to test innovative
technologies and new business models.
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Economy/digital/action/DemonstratingDigital
• Mast construction and services will go live shortly.
• Extend mobile phone coverage to the island for the first time and will be the first Scottish island with 4G mobile services.
• Access to 4G mobile broadband services on smartphones and laptops with USB wireless devices.
• Will bring significant business and public sector benefits.
• Testing the potential to create sustainable operational models that could be replicated in non-commercial areas.
• Looking towards future opportunities for generating additional revenue e.g. by providing WiFi services
Case study: The Isle of Coll
Wireless services will be an integral part of realising the world class vision and the extension of mobile coverage will underpin this ambition
Digital Economy
Digital Scotland Business Excellence Partnership
Building on strengths Skills
Enhanced Business Support
Data Innovation
Centre
Digital Health
Smart sensor and sensor
systems
Digital & ICT Skills
Investment Plan
Industry led Digital Skills Academy
Enhance education pipeline
Voucher Scheme Support Programme
Supplier Engagement Programme
Public services: National actions
Citizen focus
• myaccount - single approach to secure and easy sign in
• mygovscot – under development
Data
• Data Vision and Action Plan building on work on
• sharing of personal data in delivery of services
• using data to inform design of services
• Open (non personal) data to support civic engagement, quality public services and economic growth
Pubic services: National actions
Collaborationand vfm
• High level operating framework
• Collaborative approaches e.g. Scottish Wide Area Network
• Procurement frameworks e.g. data hosting
Workforce
• Leadership: Digital Champions and Top Talent
• Integration with broader Scotland-wide skills agenda
• Skills gap analysis to inform up-skilling of specialist staff
• Digital skills service to support change agenda across central govt sector
Smart Cities – Everything connected
Connected
devices
Connected
network
Connected
city
Source: urban tide
Smart Cities
• Smart cities will be more efficient, citizen focused and attract economic activity
• Maturity model and self assessment tool developed for Scottish Cities Alliance
• Self assessment investment roadmap
• Glasgow City Council leading development of Cities Alliance programme for investment accessing Structural Funds
Scotland is well positioned to take full advantage of
all the opportunities of the digital age.
Scotland’s Digital Future
Digital Public Services
Digital Economy
Digital Connectivity
Digital Participation
Digital Economy
ICT and Digital Technologies sector
• employs 73 000 people
• 40% in IT and telecoms work in the ICT sector, 60% work in other sectors
• forecast to increase by 15% to 84 000 by 2020
• sector offers median earnings of £38,500- 50% higher than the Scottish
average of £25, 500
• contributes £3 Billion GVA – accounting for 3% of the Scottish economy
• software related investment makes up around 25% of all FDI projects in
the UK
Challenges:
• estimated need for 11,000 new entrants a year to meet both replacement
and growth demand
• the proportion of 16-24 year olds is half that of many other occupations
• proportion of women has decreased from 30% in 2001 to 17% in 2011