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

World Class Connectivity

World Class Digital

Infrastructure

Demonstrating Digital

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

What will world class digital

infrastructure look like?

Seamless fixed and mobile networks

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

Digital Participation: Inclusion projects

Digital Participation: Skills Projects

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

Thank you

Jane.morgan@scotland.gsi.gov.uk

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