In November 2023, Glasgow City Region was named as one of ten successful 5G Innovation Regions, which will share funding of £36 million from the UK Government for a range of ambitious projects.
Glasgow City Region will be driving forward five projects working at pace to deliver the blueprints, business cases and benefits plans by March 2025.
Collectively, Glasgow City Region’s projects are about keeping people safe, well, and socially connected in their homes and local communities. The projects will bring new innovation and harness the power of connectivity, digital and data to transform services and improve lives.
Programme Objectives
- To drive economic growth across Glasgow City Region by supporting places to adopt advanced wireless technologies for Social Housing and Health & Social Care services based around local opportunities for growth.
- To accelerate commercial investment in 5G and other advanced wireless technologies by aggregating and demonstrating demand within Social Housing and Health & Social Care sectors.
- To foster the 5G ecosystem, enabling “learning by doing” by trialling and demonstrating connected solutions within Social Housing and Health & Social Care.
Projects
The Smart & Connected Social Places Programme consists of four core projects covering connected digital transformation in Social Housing and Health & Social Care. These core projects are underpinned by the Asset Based Connectivity project.
Find out more about the core projects.
In August 2024, the Region also launched the SCSP Innovation Fund. The Innovation Fund provides short term project funding to small and medium enterprises and third sector organisations that deliver benefits locally within Glasgow City Region, and engage local people in the design and development of services to meet their needs.
Find out more about the Innovation Fund and the 2024/25 projects
