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2026 Conference Keynotes
In February, Hannah was the closing keynote presenter at the Resilient Land and Seas 2026 Symposium. Collaborating at scale for nature and people was the theme of the conference held at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. Hannah took a look back at the journey of the Scottish Forum on Natural Capital, and reflected on how…
Digital MRV at Bunloit
Highlands Rewilding has trialled the use of various digital devices to collect trustable data about carbon sequestration, biodiversity and nature improvements. Hannah visited and made a film for the Farm Advisory Service about Highlands Rewilding’s Bunloit estate’s measurement of natural capital baselines, and the practicalities of doing it with digital devices for trustable data. The…
The first £billion is the hardest: Scotland’s challenge for natural capital
Hannah is supporting the Scottish Nature Finance Pioneers network in developing new natural capital investment projects that can deliver returns for investors, whether they are private businesses, public agencies or communities. As the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) continues this week, a new report by the Green Finance Institute has revealed that a minimum of £44…
BLING & Parliamentary Showcase
There’s no shortage of acronyms in academia – its RIDDLED (not an acronym, just capitalised for emphasis) with them! I was thrilled to chair the BLING conference – the mid term of the EU Interreg North Sea Region project on Blockchain in Government, where we discussed use cases of blockchain and DLT adding value to…
This is Huge… This is BIG
When you write an article for a peer-reviewed academic article, the feedback and evidence of impact you expect is a citation in another journal article in the future. So I was pleasantly surprised to get positive social media feedback on LinkedIn immediately for Piece of Cake: Assuring Specific Qualities of Product in Farm Lifecycles with…
Augmenting the reality of your brand’s social agency
In commentating in the Sunday Herald earlier this week on the meteoric international uptake of Niantic’s Pokémon GO app, I predicted that next for augmented reality (AR) would be apps that make virtual communication a little more real. I drew the analogy of R2D2’s playing of Princess Leia’s plea for help to Luke and C3P0 in…
Dance House Glasgow: Cloud ticketing for mobile sales & great CRM
Dance House Glasgow embarked on an digital development project to examine and develop its on-line presence, services and promotional offerings. This led to the implementation of an organisation-wide software solution to improve customer service, operational efficiency and bring new audience development possibilities. Dance House Glasgow now has an improved online digital presence and booking options with …
Lung Ha Theatre Company uses digital as proxy for organisational development
Lung Ha Theatre Company has been conducting a programme of strategic digital development with the support of AmbITion since 2013. The process has been the catalyst for wider change within the organisation, and the project has grown to incorporate multiple aspects of the company’s work and identity. In this rich media report, we outline the…
The Traverse Theatre’s Digital Content Developments
The Traverse Theatre wanted to develop the digital offering available to our online audience. We sought to streamline our digital platforms and incorporate regular high quality rich media content on a year-round basis, thereby increasing the online reputation of the Traverse Theatre and the quality of content for our digital audience. In early 2014, following an internal…
The Touring Network builds digital tools to measure CO2 of rural touring
The Touring Network works to support, represent and develop professional live performances happening in small-scale venues across the Highlands & Islands. Across such a vast geographic area, from Shetland to Argyll and Perthshire to Skye, the carbon costs of touring to remote and varied locations can be significant – not only are distances great but transport and buildings infrastructure is also often limited. In order to…
National Youth Orchestras of Scotland digitally transform!
Back in early 2014 The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland (NYOS) wanted to develop their organisation digitally. Their goals at the outset were not set in stone but they knew roughly what they wanted to achieve, working with Hannah Rudman to get there. Our initial ideas were to design, develop and implement a new robust, future-proof database,…
Struileag – Gaelic digital stories
With music at its heart, La Banda is a cultural organisation which unites artists and communities in the UK and across the world in contemporary creative processes which respond to heritage and culture. Asking the question, ‘How do I fit into this planet?’ La Banda explores the Scottish cultural viewpoint in the context of the…
NEoN future proof: Digital assets, knowledge and legacy
6th Edition of NEoN Digital Arts 2 – 8 November 2014
Music Plus Project Cuts Carbon
Music Plus piloted an innovative project to look at ways of cutting carbon emissions through online distance learning.
Applied Arts Scotland: Sustainable AmbITions
Applied Arts Scotland (AAS) is a membership organisation which supports the professional development of Scottish applied artists. AAS is going through fundamental change in the way it delivers its services and received Make:IT:Happen funds to take the opportunity to rethink communication and administration systems in order to be efficient and environmentally responsible. Please read more below on our Sustainable…
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland: digital development story
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland aims to transform lives through youth theatre by providing inspiring participatory opportunities for young people and by connecting, supporting and training the professionals who work with them. Our project was to develop a new online presence: a richer website which is easier to navigate and provides a welcoming and informative entry point…
Local Voices focus on digital for organisational development
Local Voices is a Community Interest Company formed in 2013 seeking to connect communities with their local traditions, primarily through songs and the use of archive resources. The company’s two co-directors are experienced folklorists, as well as singers and performers that have carried out workshops with schoolchildren in the Dundee and Angus areas with around 900…
Vanishing Point’s AmbITion Approach
Vanishing Point undertook the AmbITIon Approach in order to map out plans for the organisation’s digital development.
All that Jazz: the SNJO digitally alive again!
SNJO: In the Hall of the Mountain King The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra and their Artistic Director, the saxophonist Tommy Smith are widely recognized to be “world class” with an international reputation for the highest quality jazz and programming. In 2013, while performances soared with rapturous receptions to their Ellington and Rhapsody in Blue concerts…
Cinema City: history brought to life with digital development
Glasgow Film, comprising Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Film Festival, is the west of Scotland’s leading independent cultural cinema.Glasgow Film’s Cinema City project connects visitors and residents to the fascinating cinema heritage of the city. Back in the cinema-going heyday of the 1930s, Glasgow had more cinemas per head than anywhere else in the world,…