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Connecting Scotland is a Scottish Government initiative set up in response to coronavirus. Its aim is to help get every citizen in Scotland online. Read our latest Impact Report to find out what we have achieved so far with the help of our partners and participating organisations. The Connecting Scotland Programme works with organisations to support their service users to get online.

See all news. See all our latest publications. View all open consultations. How we provide and utilise high quality intelligence, data and evidence as part of the evidence base for effective action to protect and improve health and wellbeing. How we plan and deliver effective and specialist national services to protect the people of Scotland from infectious and environmental hazards. How we support local and national clinical, social and community planning structures in order to help ensure that services meet the health needs of their populations in a sustainable way.

Because of this, the Scottish Government is committed to making Scotland a world-class digital nation by the year This means ensuring more and more of the country benefits from great internet speeds. This means that we are undertaking the highest value telecommunications infrastructure investment in all of Europe. The project presents a number of unique communications challenges, especially due to the rugged terrain and dispersed population in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

This means that, in addition to our existing fibre network, a massive km of new fibre infrastructure, including km of subsea cabling, will be installed across Scotland! We also know how important Wi-Fi is to our visitors and residents, and we take these needs very seriously. Find out more about Gigabit Cities.

Learn more. Home About Scotland Connectivity. Public Transport Scotland has a very well-developed public transport system that covers the length and breadth of the country.