1. January 2016

2. Why? What? How? Where?

3. 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.

4. 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…..

5. 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

6. How? Advice, Guidance & Support Funding to Inspire, Design and Build Supply Chain Support and Intervention Inspiring, Empowering and Enabling

7. 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

8. 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

9. Where communities working together – works! NB. Portnahaven area on Islay now removed from GPA project – DSSB Fibre is expected in 2016.

10. 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

11. LiveLearnWorkTransforming…

12. INTERNAL What do You Think?