January 2016

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

Scotland’s World Class 2020 Vision Any device, Anywhere, Anytime.

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…..

How? CBS will…

Help Communities Who Want To Go Faster and Further.

Help Fund Those Communities Who Are Unlikely to Benefit From DSSB (120,000 + homes and premises).

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

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

Where

Funded Projects

15 Community Capital Projects Funded(3 projects pending funding)

Up to 6,000 transformational connections enabled this year.

Engaged with over 90 communities across Scotland representing over 15,000 premises.

Funding to Inspire, Design and Build

Where communities working together – works!

NB . Portnahaven area on Islay now removed from GPA project – DSSB Fibre is expected in 2016.

Communities coming together for the first aggregated project

7 Communities

12 Inhabited Islands

Up to 3,000 people

Over 1,500 premises

Creating Scale - by Aggregation

Live

Learn

Work

Transforming…

INTERNAL

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