Pupils at St Thomas Aquinas School in Glasgow, the pilot school for the project © Photography by Jeff Holmes
other Council buildings, and this has involved Commsworld, which has had recent investment from Lloyds Development Capital, and DataVita in Bellshill. “The challenge before with the introduction of iPads in schools was there was no way of knowing if everyone was on the same item of work. With Classroom Manager, the teacher can lockdown the iPads from the front of the class. If there is unauthorised group use with a project, for example, the iPads can be stopped, the project reset and the whole class can continue in the right direction.” City of Glasgow Council is the first
council to achieve CyberEssentials Plus, a recognised level of security and data protection for employees and students. “We have a large cyber practice, and this is all being provided directly for the Council,” said Ms McGranaghan, who studied English Literature at the University of Glasgow and began her working life with the Scottish Executive and the Royal Bank of Scotland. The provision of the technology is helping to deal with the city’s poverty challenge and helping with its policy of inclusion. “One of the key agendas from the
Council Chief Executive, Annemarie O’Donnell, was to try and make sure that every young person, regardless of
their socio-economic background, had the same start in their educational life and the iPad roll-out allows every child to have the same access to the same level of technology, allowing them to further their education,” she said. “I think this is remarkable and
Glasgow has the largest global programme of this type. We are absolutely world-leading in this initiative in terms of the size and scale of what we are doing. It’s phenomenal what Glasgow City Council is putting into the futures of these young people.” She said that CGI really feels like an essential partner in this journey, able to make a difference to people’s lives. With children taking their iPads home, this is helping to increase the opportunity to create ‘digital citizens’ among their parents, who will be able to access the right local services through their devices.
CGI was founded in Quebec, Canada in 1976 by Serge Godin, the Chairman, and André Imbeau, who remains on the Board. CGI is the French acronym for ‘Conseillers en gestion et informatique’, or Consultants to Government and Industry. The global Chief Executive Officer, George Schindler, has been in Scotland many times and has been involved in building business relations between Quebec and Glasgow.
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