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The Scottish bid to establish a Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence has come a step closer with the successful stage-one bid to the Strength in Places Fund, a funding scheme led by UK Research and Innovation. In October 2018, a consortium was formed by the University of Edinburgh, FinTech Scotland, Scottish Enterprise and the…

Design Informatics introduces experts to smart contracts through the GeoPact demonstrator. On 12-13 March 2019, transport and technology experts visited one of Edinburgh’s DDI hubs for a hands-on demonstration of location-based smart contracts. The demonstration by the GeoPact team took place at the Bayes Centre, and took participants through the process of completing smart contracts…

On 19-20 March 2019, the MyData Global community visited Scotland’s capital to set out plans for its future activities and ambitions. The tenth spring meeting was held at the University of Edinburgh’s InSpace facility and was hosted by the Data-Driven Innovation initiative. Speaking to delegates, DDI Director Jarmo Eskelinen welcomed MyData to Edinburgh and provided an…

Data ethics on the agenda as global community for personal data comes to Scotland’s capital MyData Global, an award-winning nonprofit and community for digital human rights, is to hold its annual meet-up in Edinburgh, 19-20 March. The two-day meeting will include workshops, the organisation’s spring general meeting, and the launch of the MyData 2019 conference.…

Efforts to monitor the spread of antibiotic resistance worldwide could be transformed with a map created using data from analysis of sewage samples. An international team of scientists analysed the DNA of drug-resistant bacteria found in samples gathered from more than 60 countries. Their method offers a relatively inexpensive, fast and simple way to track…

Thousands of people and families across Edinburgh and South-East Scotland are set to benefit from a ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ skills initiative after the first three of the seven skills projects being developed were given the green light for funding under the City Region Deal’s Integrated Regional Employability and Skills (IRES) Programme. The trio of visionary skills initiatives…

A world-leading teaching and research institute at the University of Edinburgh is aiming to help hundreds of organisations across the region’s private, public and third sectors, with almost £60m in Government funding from the City Region Deal. The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal Joint Committee is expected to approve a final business…

Students from the University of Edinburgh have tackled pressing industry and social challenges in one of the first projects delivered by the City Region Deal’s Data-Driven Innovation Programme. Designing out waste from the construction process, preventing violence against children, and helping fintech align itself to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals were challenges set by external…

The Data-Driven Innovation initiative has announced its support for a £5.5m fund to appoint 25 post-doctoral researchers at the University of Edinburgh who will focus on data-driven innovation and working with industry. Researchers recruited through the Train@Ed Post-doctoral Fellowship will work with academics and external partners from the private, public and third sectors. The pump-priming…