AmbITion Scotland is a digital development programme for the arts, heritage and cultural sector in Scotland over 2012-14, funded by The National Lottery via Creative Scotland. Want to get digitally fitter and smarter? Join in!
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Engaging with AmbITion Scotland means you can get support - via our Make:IT:Happen Fund, through finding student interns or academic partners and through participating with our learning, resources and networking activities
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AmbITion Scotland is a £1m digital development programme for 2012/3 specifically designed to support individuals and organisations working in the arts, culture and heritage sectors in Scotland. It helps organisations and individuals grow in their capability, capacity, creativity and confidence to make the most of the opportunities of digital technologies.
AmbITion helps organisations become digitally fitter so they can adapt to the social, cultural, and economic changes of the digital technology revolution. Business sustainability in the 21st century will demand digital fitness. AmbITion Scotland 2012/3 succeeds the £1m+ AmbITion Scotland 2009/11 programme, and is now different and wider-reaching!
The Make:IT:Happen Fund is live! The Make:IT:Happen Fund is part of AmbITion Scotland and has been created to help organisations to grasp the opportunities presented by digital technologies in order to grow business capability, capacity, creativity and confidence in these areas. Over £400,000 is being invested in Scotland’s arts, culture and heritage sectors for strategic digital development.
Make:IT:Happen funding can be used to support a project in its entirety or to augment a bigger digital ambition. Funds are available to not for profit arts, culture and heritage groups and organisations with relatively little or no digital knowledge/experience as well as to those that have some competence with digital projects, but limited resources. Read our Make:IT:Happen fund launch article to find out more, or visit the Make:IT:Happen fund section to find out more about what you can apply for!
The Make:IT:Happen fund has evolved out of the work that AmbITion Scotland has undertaken since its inception on 2009. During that time, the project has enabled many organisations, large and small, digitally sophisticated as well as digital newcomers, to develop their businesses through opportunities offered by digital technologies.
AmbITion Scotland is supported by The National Lottery through Creative Scotland, and is a a core piece of Creative Scotland’s Cultural Economy Programme. AmbITion Scotland works strategically with digital programme 2012 partners NESTA and Sync to offer a range of opportunities for digital learning and development, experimentation, and innovation to the Scottish cultural sector – see below.
Explore the full range of opportunities for digital learning, experimentation and innovation available to the Scottish cultural sector 2012/3. You can view potential journeys through the opportunities, or see the bigger picture of the programme in calendar format.
Sir Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web thinks that there is a third iteration of the web emerging: (web 3.0?!) big data, wearable computing, the internet of things, and 3D printing are all a part of the wave of emerging technologies that once again will disrupt where we’re at now and make a step change in our world (think of the impact on our lives of the social two-way technologies of web 2.0).
Today, 1 May 2013, fifteen of Scotland’s arts, culture and heritage organisations have received a £91,000 investment of National Lottery funds to capitalise on opportunities presented by digital technologies in a third round of funding from AmbITion Scotland’s Make:IT:Happen fund.
http://storify.com/getambition/digital-2013
