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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By Ashley Smith Hammond
31 October 2012
Today, Scotland’s arts, culture and heritage organisations have received over £85,000 investment of National Lottery funds from AmbITion Scotland’s Make:IT:Happen fund to capitalise on opportunities presented by digital technologies.
By Ashley Smith Hammond
8 October 2012
Following on from our recent successful Social Media Week Glasgow event, AmbITion Scotland is pleased to launch our Winter Workshop Series.
By Ashley Smith Hammond
27 September 2012
The £500,000 Digital R&D Fund for Arts and Culture in Scotland has opened for its second-round of applications to connect Scottish arts and culture organisations with technology providers. The fund, which has already provided support for six Scottish organisations this year, aims to harness digital technologies to reach wider audiences and develop new ways of working with [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
24 September 2012
This September organisations from the world of dance, literature, music and visual art attended to find out how a partnership with academia could help them explore a new idea or get help solving a problem.
By Hannah Rudman
6 September 2012
Conference organisers and AmbITion Scotland partners, Interactive Scotland once again hosted a scintillating day at Edinburgh’s Turing Festival. The Turing Festival brings the digital industries and the web into this gathering in a celebration of digital culture and creativity. Named in honour of Alan Turing, father of modern computing, the festival moves beyond traditional tech conferences to explore [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
21 August 2012
On Friday 24 August, 2012, a group of the world’s digital technology leaders will converge on Edinburgh to debate and discuss their latest innovations. Tune in to the AmbITion Scotland’s webcast for a glimpse of the digital future, and an insight into how it can positively affect business growth in the arts, culture and heritage [...]
By Hannah Rudman
2 August 2012
In this podcast studio guests dissect the future of mobile from near field communication (NFC) technology to Google’s Project Glass and take in the latest advances in augmented reality browsers along the way. But how much of this technology can really deliver what we need it to for our audiences? There are also case studies [...]
By Hannah Rudman
31 July 2012
This summer marks two years since the inception of the festivalslab project. To celebrate, The Festivals Lab team have compiled a showreel document of the projects, which highlights what worked and what didn’t. The content and knowledge sharing partnership that AmbITion Scotland has held with Festivalslab has enabled the learnings of the festivals to be [...]
By Ashley Smith Hammond
26 July 2012
The AmbITion Scotland team are delighted to announce that our new website, www.getambition.com, has been nominated as a finalist in the professional services website category at this year’s The Drum Awards for the Digital Industries (the Dadis).
By Hannah Rudman
4 July 2012
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