What support it gives directly and through sportscotland for the establishment and running of websites by sports governing bodies.

Sportscotland give advice to individual governing bodies on website and hosting issues and work with the Scottish Sports Association in considering proposals from companies who wish to provide websites to governing bodies. sportscotland are currently working with Young Scot to help provide content for the Sport Channel of their recently launched national youth information portal. In developing the sport-specific content, sportscotland will work with the governing bodies giving them the opportunity to provide information and contact details, including website addresses, for articles pertaining to their particular sport. This will present a new opportunity for these bodies to reach a broad youth audience. So far, sportscotland has received a positive response from governing bodies on this.In addition, over the next few months and as part of an enlarged information team, sportscotland expect to appoint a new information manager, whose responsibilities will include considering the needs of governing bodies in this area.