5 Digital Communities (Melissa Dundas/Alex Edmonstone/Rhona Grant) PDF 269 KB
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Minutes:
Melissa presented her report.
Joe asked for a twice yearly formal paper to be provided to the CPP MC.
Cllr Currie noted that all future housing developments should have fibre
broadband connections. Cllr Currie also noted that landline only consumers will
shortly be left with no connection.
Ryan McIntyre added that there had been a 70% drop off in young people
contacting their MSYPs about lack of mobile phone coverage and that this would
seem to indicate that coverage must be improving.
Anthony Standing suggested mobilising Digital Champions from across the
CPP
There was a discussion about the level of uptake of fibre broadband
across Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æ and Bute, with actions coming out of the discussion. Cllr Currie
noted that Laura Evans and Matthew Shaw looked at Digital Inclusion and the
uptake of fibre broadband as part of the Call Blockers project.
ACTION - Rona to discuss the provision
of written reports and the timing thereof with Melissa and Iain
ACTION - Rona to link Melissa and Iain
with CLD Partnership, of which Rhona Grant is now the Chair
ACTION - Takki
to circulate baseline of digital provision across Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æ and Bute
ACTION - Melissa Dundas to speak to Iain MacInnes
regarding the following points raised by the CPP MC
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The impact of the
switch-off of copper infrastructure on Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æ and Bute communities
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The messaging and
communication with communities on Jura in terms of the lack of take-up of the digital
infrastructure project on the island Ìý
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4 Digital Communities (Iain MacInnes and Alex Edmonstone) PDF 501 KB
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Minutes:
Alex Edmonstone provided an update on the CLD
Partnership advising that Digital Skills is a key theme in the 3 year strategy
and a digital work stream group has been created to look at digital inclusion
and complete a mapping exercise, details of which are in .Ìý
The recommendations by the consultants will be discussed at the next
digital work stream meeting in July before reporting to the CLD Partnership and
then to the September CPP MC. Alex advised that a Helensburgh
pilot to provide free wifi access (dongles) to those
with an identified learning need has gone well and it is hoped to roll this out
across a wider area.
ACTION - Alex E to report to September
CPP MC on the consultant recommendations for digital skills, digital inclusion
and the results of the Helensburgh free wifi for learning pilot.
Iain MacInnes advised the R100 fibre roll out
is still progressing in Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æ and Bute, currently installing at Ardfern. The roll out has experienced delays due to lack of
accommodation available for the contractors. As part of the Shared Rural
Network Infrastructure programme to install 4-5G in rural areas, the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æ and
Bute area is due to have 50 new mobile masts installed. This is a massive
investment in the area targeting partial and not spots in network coverage.
Three have already gone live and there are 18 more at the planning stages
across the area. Digital Hubs are now installed and up and running on Iona and
Islay and drop in sessions will be available to show residents how the hubs
work. Digital hubs are also planned for Coll and Tiree but there have been some supply chain issues that
have delayed the start of work at those sites.Ìý
Cllr Currie had received a letter from the Chief Network Officer at
Vodafone stating that they are nervous regarding the number of planning
applications in progress with Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æ and Bute Council for masts, given the
deadline to install is fast approaching. Iain MacInnes
advised that he was already in contact with Vodafone and is working closely
with them on this.
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