Transform Digital Aberdeen4th February 2015

Why? What? How? Where?

Why?

Our ambition for Scotland to become a world class digital nation …..requires that people

living, working and visiting can communicate and connect instantly using

any device, anywhere, anytime.

Scotland’s World Class 2020 Vision

Why?

“Delivering Next Generation Broadband capability to our most remote and rural

communities does have a Transformational

impact on how those communities Live, Learn and Work”

Why?

Over £420m is being invested in Scotland on Fibre Infrastructure across two contracts

which will ensure that 95% + of properties are connected to Superfast Broadband

Infrastructure…..

What?

What?

Help Communities Who Want To Go Faster and Further

Help Fund Those Communities Who Are Unlikely to Benefit From DSSB (120,000 +)

Enable Stakeholder and Supplier Engagement to Bring The Benefits of Scale to The Smallest Communities

Closing The Digital Divide

How?

Advice, Guidance & Support

Funding to Inspire, Design and Build

Supply Chain Support and Intervention

Inspiring, Empowering and Enabling

How?

Three Stages Of Funding Support

Scoping and Demand Stimulation (100%, £2,000)

Technical Options, High Level Design & Business Planning (100%)

Capital Funding for Build and Commissioning (up to 89%)

Funding to Inspire, Design and Build

Where?

Funded Projects

9 Community Capital Projects Funded

Over 1,500 transformational connections enabled

Engaged with over 80 communities across Scotland representing over 15,000 premises.

Funding to Inspire, Design and Build

Challenges

ChallengesBackhaul and Power

SustainabilityResilienceEquality

EnvironmentalCommunity Capacity

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CASE STUDY 1

Partnership

Live

Learn

Work

Transforming…

“It has made it much easier to work from

home a day per week regularly which reduces commuting and helps

with my work/life balance.”

Transforming…

Work

“Just to have the internet is a bonus

I can do training from home.

I can Skype my family abroad.”

Transforming…

Learn

“It has made it possible for me to move to

Loch Eil.”

Transforming…

Live

CASE STUDY 2

CASE STUDY 2

7 Communities

10 Inhabited Islands

Up to 3,000 people

Over 1,500 premises

Creating Scale - by Aggregation

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