The Growing Mid Wales Digital Programme aims to capitalise on the economic opportunities that can be unlocked by investing in digital infrastructure in order to address deficits in digital connectivity, drive the uptake of new technologies amongst the region's businesses and to improve the services that already exist.
This will be achieved through accelerating the provision of digital infrastructure across Mid Wales through a diverse range of fixed and wireless infrastructure deployments, complemented with innovative platforms, business support and policy reforms that directly provide or facilitate greater investment, stimulate demand, and accelerate digital build and exploitation across the Mid Wales region.
The Programme will consider and progress projects that complement and provide additionality to those initiatives already in place or planned through UK and Welsh Governments and not duplicate commercial investment and deployments across the region, in order to maximise return on investment.
For this reason, the Programme has identified a long list of possible opportunities and interventions to be further considered and developed, recognising that the programme and potential projects will need to be highly adaptable in order to effectively respond to the ever-changing environment in which the Programme operates (with consumer and market behaviour, Government plans, and existing and planned initiatives continuing to evolve).
At this current time, the Programme is focused upon four predominant projects -
- GMW Broadband Project - aimed at improving broadband provision to those not currently planned within other commercial or publicly funded programmes.
- GMW Mobile Coverage & Capacity Project - aimed at improving both the coverage and capacity of the mobile provision across the Mid Wales Region, particularly in areas where it has been shown to particularly poor.
- GMW Business Park FTTP Project - aimed at providing 'fibre to the premises' broadband provision to all remaining business parks across the Region where other programmes won' intervene.
- LoRaWAN Stimulation Project - aimed at enabling businesses through appropriate funding and support in order to exploit the existing and future LoRaWAN network and technology that is currently in place across Mid Wales.
We are always looking for businesses and potential investors to work with us to help achieve the Programme's full potential. If you are interested in talking more on investment opportunities or would like to get involved in some capacity, please contact us: Growth Deal: growingmidwales@ceredigion.gov.uk
For all other economic and regeneration enquiries: In Ceredigion, contact Clic on 01545 570 881/ clic@ceredigion.gov.uk. In Powys, contact 01597 827 657/ regeneration@powys.gov.uk
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