Who we are

The Higher Education Wales Information Technology group (HEWIT) is a grouping of Directors of Information Services drawn from all universities institutions across Wales.

What we do

The purpose of HEWIT is to promote co-operation on the provision of information technology services , to encourage the exchange of ideas, to provide a forum for mutual support and to help facilitate new initiatives within the community.

HEWIT is providing a focus for the development of new ideas and services and to foster Wales-wide activities such as networking.

Our Aims

Our aims are to identify best practice through:

• promoting and supporting collaboration and partnership between institutions;
• organising conferences, seminars and workshops;
• providing high-quality services and infrastructure to enable high-quality teaching and research
• informing, influencing and supporting policy making processes within institutions regarding cost-effective application of information systems and services.
• establishing groups to investigate and, where appropriate, assist with implementing broader collaborative initiatives, e.g. collaborative procurements, the Welsh Government’s PSBA (Public-Sector Broadband Aggregation) programme, Digital Strategy for Wales
• raising the profile of IT services and developments in our own institutions and within Wales.