This month sees a key development in digital skills in the region, along with a week-long celebration of digital leadership regionally and nationally. We’ve recently learned that our joint CEO Julie Hawker is amongst the finalists for the Digital Leaders Local Champions representing the South West region and we wish her the very best of luck at the national awards being held on 21st June.
Cosmic continues to drive and deliver its digital skills service and to engage in thought leadership work on regional and national levels, all of which adds to our abilities to support clients in skills programmes and projects.
Since this pilot scheme we have progressed to work with several more larger businesses and organisations to provide bespoke programmes and further enhance the skills being developed. Our work with many of the region’s largest housing associations has included Yarlington House Group, Plymouth Community Homes and more recently Westward Housing. The context of digital technologies in improving the work of social housing providers has proved to be full of opportunities and innovation potential. We’ve also worked with several large providers of health and social care in the region – Help & Care based in Bournemouth and Livewell Southwest in Plymouth. Plenty of scope for embracing new technologies and systems has been evident in this work. Our work with Torbay Development Agency brought about the formation of a new group focusing on digital strategy for the future and giving the organisation a real sense of direction for improving its operations as well as opportunities for growth in future. Since then we’ve been working with Wolferstans, one of the regions foremost legal practices with over 180 legal professionals and some major challenges and opportunities are unfolding through this work.