Tim Robertson

Dorset Council's Digital Place team seek to make Dorset a better place to live, work and visit through promoting and enabling enhanced digital connectivity in this predominantly rural county poorly served by fixed and wireless solutions compared to the rest of the UK. I support projects to support digital connectivity and its benefits across the communities of Dorset.

Originally from Essex, I trained as a primary school teacher in Devon before running the Junior class on Sark in the Channel Islands for eight years. Returning to the UK I joined the Royal National LIfeboat Institution as an Education Officer supporting volunteer recruitment and training across the South East. Moving to Dorset in 2003 I filled a number of roles at RNLI HQ in Poole supporting marketing, Fundraising, ICT and Operational activities prior to helping to form the Innovation service, focussing on Future Lifesaving Innovation. I joined Dorset Council's Digital Place Team in April 2020 to deliver elements of the multi award winning 5G Rural Dorset programme, a testbed for advanced wireless connectivity in Rural communities, which included agriculture, aquaculture and the security / defence activities at Dorset Innovation Park in Wool (MOD Battlelab).