SFHA Digital and IT Network summer update

Been a lull in activity lately, but I am now looking ahead to the second half of the year to organise some interesting events and opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing in the network. In other news, we have just recently pushed live a series of user interface and user experience update to the SFHA website to make it a better experience for members. Plus an extensive visual update to the weekly e-newsletter that we curate, to strengthen our digital engagement for members.

I want to highlight one of the updates below, please try to take a minute to fill in the summer pulse survey as this will help SFHA to plan for upcoming network events and focus on where we can try to help members in the digital space.

1. Digital and IT Network Meeting – Wed 30 August @ 12-14:30 | Virtual
Quarterly meeting for SFHA members interested in current digital and IT trends and projects across the sector. We will be having a mix of speakers and knowledge sharing to benefit people in attendance. The agenda will be confirmed at the start of August.
Click here to book your place

2. Complete the Summer digital pulse survey
In order to give SFHA the right data to provide the network with the most relevant content can you please respond to our very short survey (1 minute). We will share the results and use the data to inform our agenda at the next Network meeting at the end of August. Click here to complete

3. Member Query
Eildon is looking to re-tender the provision of their wide area network (WAN) shortly and is looking for an SD-WAN solution. Julia Kelly, Digital Services Manager, is keen to chat with any other HA’s who have done this recently and or HA’s that use a SD-WAN to find out what their experience has been.

If you have any experience that you could share please get in touch and I will collate for sharing, email: gdickson@sfha.co.uk

4. Cyber Incident Response Plan – Guidance and Template
We had a short life working group of members to help create guidance and a template for Cyber Incident response, a helpful resource for organisations that don’t have one yet. If you don’t I would strongly advise you to have one in place to help with business risk and resilience. We will be launching the guidance at the start of August, free for SFHA members.

5. TEC Housing event
TECH in partnership with SFHA is running an in-person event on Tuesday 19th September in Glasgow that crosses the digital divide with the more human side of housing. On the day you will hear expert speakers from across Housing, health, and social care as we cover Tech themes of Culture, Impact, and Opportunity.

Sessions will include:

Building digital skills and leadership – supporting digital culture within your organisation
Attracting Tech minded talent into the sector – Mapping out the digital skills requirements for job roles, routes to housing
Designing digital services and what support is available to housing.
The future of care and support – AI and preventative analytics
The digital Journey – From analogue to digital – what the transition means for Scottish Housing and how we are performing as a sector.

You can find out more and book your ticket here: https://www.sfha.co.uk/whats-on/event-details/tech-conference

As always, please do reach out to me if you would like to chat about anything digital or IT.

Gary Dickson
Digital & Design Manager
gdickson@sfha.co.uk