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1. Scots Language in Safe Hands
   Swift action to safeguard the Scots tongue is being taken. It follows a warning by UNESCO that in less than three decades as many as half of the world's 6,000-plus languages, already under threat, face dying out and that's not including dialects and creoles.

2. Jury Out On Independent Scots Currency
   Fresh talk of a Scots pound brings to mind Scotland's traditional monetary values that, some might say, are perhaps rather old fashioned and ill-suited to a digital era. Not so. They're needed more than ever. As for an independent currency, not so sure.

3. Scotland Closely Monitors Brexit Developments
   Brexit seems a lifetime ago. The 2016 EU referendum vote to leave Europe (but not by Scotland voters) still has economists remaining in a 50-50 split as to the advantages or otherwise. This is to be expected, given the old chestnut - if you place two economists in a room you come out with three opinions.

4. Young Scots leading the way as Scotch Whisky embraces sustainability issues
   Young Scots are enjoying the "Water of Life" contributing to Scotch Whisky record annual sales globally totalling over several billion euros but the tipplers, aged up to and around their mid-20s, are embracing the amber nectar very much on their own terms.

5. Scotland pressing the flesh in Silicon Valley with new generation of tech start-ups
   It sounds apocryphal but I'm told it's true. How a budding tech tycoon travelled for a solid 27 hours from Scotland's Silicon Glen to Silicon Valley. As he emerged from LAX customs, the venture capitalist he was due to meet shepherded him into a reserved side room for a 3-minute elevator pitch, 5 minutes but only if there's time.

6. Cyberwhisper it!
   Increasing numbers of hard-pressed businesses view online as so toxic they're thinking of quitting the Internet for good.

7. Scots graduates must do less Angry Birds more early-bird career calls
   Rising numbers of Scots graduates are far too addicted to their smartphone.

8. Scots asking what's up with WhatsApp
   Scots numbering at least one million, probably many more, have been put on high cyber alert following a series of fresh reports and research warning of a growing threat to their privacy when using WhatsApp for work or leisure.

9. Scotland gets investor thumbs up from Valley player
   Scotland's place on the global stage has been strengthened following Silicon Valley's major-league digital entrepreneur - or "technology scout" as she prefers to be known - Deborah Magid renewing her 10,000 mile round trip from California to resume a long-standing relationship with EIE in Edinburgh.

10. Scotland launching groundbreaking mandatory AI Register
    Scottish public and private organisations are being warned that hyped-up advanced artificial intelligence (genAI) marketing campaigns hurtling in their direction at cyberspeed can easily nudge, off-kilter, their digital compass.

11. Corporate Scotland suffers from U-turn on intellectual property rights code of practice talks
    Digital dithering by the UK Government shortly before it called a General Election has left ambitious businesses, keen to exploit next-generation technologies, well and truly disconnected. If not commercially stranded.

12. Scots child protection institute and Interpol in novel link-up to fight cybercrime
    Scotland's Childlight Global Child Safety Institute, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, is supporting Interpol in a seven-year £30 milion ($38m) deal to fight to end online child sexual exploitation online.

13. Scotland leads rest of UK in attracting youngsters to vital science, tech, engineering, maths (STEM) skills
    Scotland's continued struggle (along with virtually the rest of the planet) to plug skills shortages in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has been given a timely boost by a group of teens who beat off stiff competition from hundreds of their peers to lift the UK's leading Junior Engineering Award.

14. Digital readiness "critical" towards coping with the next Digital Pandemic
    Scotland, of course, could not possibly avoid the recent global IT outage along with the rest of the planet. Trouble is, another one could be coming round the digital horizon. It is clear organisations, of all sizes and in the sectors in which they operate, must conduct a digital readiness check as a matter of urgency. Apparently none more so than the public sector.

15. Scotland tackling young gaming addiction
    Tam is a typical Scots teenager who fits the category of "Digital Native." With time on his hands or rather at his fingertips, a bright kid good at science and maths who, ideally, is destined to go far attracting a high grade salary and with it personal lifestyle.

16. Scots digital powerhouse plans centre on financial assets doubling to £1 trillion by 2030
    Those folks hopeful of the eventual issuing of a Scots pound are having to curb their enthusiasm. Instead they are keeping an eagle eye on another monetary issue with global implications involving both sides of the Pond.

17. How Scotland 'Enlightened' the Modern World
    Boxing up some books for a Scots charity, I came across one I certainly wasn't going to let go. It has gone well beyond its 26th edition and just keeps on going. Such is the enduring popularity, two decades on, of a New York Times bestseller "The Scottish Enlightment: The Scots' invention of the Modern World".

18. New Scottish AI strategy "agile by design" to tackle rapid Tech and social change
    Scots digital innovation is to the fore to tackle what represents an unprecedented era of uncertain hyperconnectivity centred on developments generated by artificial intelligence (genAI) that's all but about to overwhelm each and every one of us.

19. Scotland working harder on the "digital divide" rural front
    Scotland is often described affectionately as a "wee country". It is currently working extra hard out in the field to make sure the well-documented "Digital Divide" doesn't get any bigger.

20. Scots' Trogenix brings new hope of beating cancer
    Trongenix, a leading Scottish biotech specialist, has administered a dose of welcome relief to a highly-uncertain digital era led by generative artificial intelligence. In doing so the AI software researcher is attracting a growing list of interested parties, including the US National Brain Tumor Society.

21. Scotland Launches Entrepreneurial Plan-of-Action fit for Digital Era
    Entrepreneurial activity represents the lifeblood of Scotland's centuries-old globally renowned innovations. Truly enterprising, if at times refreshingly eclectic just think of the "fs" for fingerprinting to the flushing toilet, there's also the "ts" for telephone and television.

22. Scotland's National Drink Producers Fear Worst from Trump 2.0 Tariff Hike Threat
    The $9 billion (£7.1 bn) Scotch whisky industry and its 40,000 employees are holding their collective breath. As a 2nd Trump US administration looms and all this means in terms of well documented threats by the self-proclaimed teetotaler that would lead to quite catastrophic Transatlantic tariff hikes hitting sales of the amber nectar.