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This month we published our Cyber Action Plan for Wales. As we move to delivering the actions in the plan, we asked Pete Burnap, Professor of Data Science & Cybersecurity at Cardiff University, and Director of the Cyber Innovation Hub – which was also launched this month – to write a guest blog about the work they’re doing and how partnerships and collaboration will help deliver the ambition in the Cyber Action Plan for Wales.
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Today we published an interactive dashboard presenting Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data for homes in Wales.
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This week we’re pleased to share that we have published the Cyber Action Plan for Wales.
Over the last few months, we’ve kept you up to date with the development of the Cyber Action Plan through a series of blogs. In this series we have explained what cyber is, how the cyber ecosystem works, why we need a Cyber Action Plan and outlined what we think the priority areas are for cyber in Wales.
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Back in February we wrote a blog telling you about the development of a Cyber Action Plan for Wales. Since then, we have been working with stakeholders to develop the plan. This has included discussions with industry experts, our academic partners including colleagues from the new Cyber Innovation Hub and digital and technology leads from the public sector. As part of these discussions we developed a consensus on what we believe are the priority areas for cyber in Wales. These are:
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December 2022 saw the first release of data about the Welsh language from Census 2021. This showed that the number of Welsh speakers had fallen to 538,300. This contrasted with some other sources which suggested figures had been rising.
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Professor Calvin Jones is working with Welsh Government analysts to provide expert advice on a new project to better understand the Welsh economy. In this blog post, he explains what you can expect from this work.
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The Digital Strategy for Wales sets out how we want people to have the motivation, access, skills and confidence to use digital in a modern world.
Digital is now a fundamental aspect of our daily lives – used for entertainment and leisure activities, in work and education, for keeping in touch with family and friends and accessing important public services. Many of us benefit from being able to use digital tools and technology confidently, however as the pace of change in digital technology increases, there is risk that more people will remain or become digitally excluded. Digital exclusion is experienced by people who do not have access, skills, confidence, or motivation to use the internet or digital tools.
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In my last blog, I mentioned how LoRaWAN is revolutionising how sensing is done and, since then, it’s been incredible to witness LoRaWAN adoption increasing at pace.
For example, a major water utility company is investing in 5000 LoRaWAN gateways and 3 million sensors that will be retrofitted to existing water meters, and combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI), will improve detection of leaks and optimise the water network.
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February may be the time for romance, but it’s not all about hearts and flowers. St Valentine is sharing the spotlight with Love Data Week!
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In our increasingly digital world, cyber is a word we’re hearing about more and more cyber skills, cyber safety, online crime and cyber-attacks.
In this blog, we want to tell you about the development of a Cyber Action Plan for Wales, a commitment in our Digital Strategy for Wales.
This will be the first in a series of blogs about the action plan and we want to start by explaining a bit about what we mean by cyber, why we need an action plan and who the plan is for.
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