A large number of communities on the islands now have Broadband and reasonable communications, However, some are not so lucky. We believe that all islanders should have access to good quality communications. Please help us to identify poor quality services, so that we can feed this information back to the Minister, Jim Mather
At the Conference, Gaelic was identified to be an important cultural feature of the islands. Please help us to formulate an active policy for this medium?
SIF is keen to gather together issues about Crofting, land management and ownrship. Advise us how we may be able to help?
In this area I would like to open a discussion about islands and their energy strategies.To get this ball rolling as an open subject. The Committee of SIF are proposing a mini conference to be held on Orkney, probably in April 08. One idea is to have as the theme ‘Energy’ Most islands have some form of energy issue, and some have significant energy projects like wind, woodfuel or tidal electricity production. A possible outcome of an Energy Conference may be to look at a policy to make ‘The best use of our energy resources? What other projects could we be looking at? Does anyone have ideas of ‘good practice’ from their island that we can publish on the website?Alan
This area is to gain information about marine matters. ‘Heads up’ all fishermen, fish farmers, sea users. EU Maritime policy in consultation phase. Help us to make a response. Also, comment here on global warming issues regarding the sea.
Please join in with our discussions. Clearly we must moderate this blog carefully, however only defamatory or totally un appropriate entries will be deleted.
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