campbell cameron - community broadband scotland
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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
INTERNAL
What do You Think?What do You Think?