Women are breaking the glass firewall in IT - but they need the men in IT to...
One of the most pleasing aspects of this year's UKtech50 - Computer Weekly's annual list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT - is that over one-third of the nominees shortlisted for the reader...
View ArticleSpending review will show how - or if - digital is the future of the public...
November 25th is highlighted in red ink for any IT leader in the public sector. That's the day the chancellor, George Osborne, reveals the winners and losers in the 2015 spending review, which...
View ArticleSpending review: GDS continues but big cuts ahead in Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office is set for higher than average budget cuts in next week's spending review, while the future of the Government Digital Service (GDS) appears to be secure - but smaller.Chancellor...
View ArticleSoftware is never perfect - and that includes the Post Office's controversial...
Software goes wrong. Every developer knows that. Even the most thoroughly tested piece of software can come up with an unexpected set of circumstances that cause it to behave in an equally unexpected...
View ArticleGDS gets a £450m budget boost - and a £3.5bn incentive to prove digital...
Even people close to the Government Digital Service (GDS) seem surprised - pleasantly so - by the announcement of a £450m budget over the rest of this Parliament. While it's still not clear exactly how...
View ArticleAll of us need to play our part to influence the role of technology in the UK...
Influence is a wonderfully subjective measure by which to gauge successful people in the UK technology scene. Influence can be negative as well as positive. You might be influenced by a particular IT...
View ArticleGDS must respond openly and honestly to NAO criticism
MPs are often at their most lyrically creative when they sit on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and are given free rein to criticise those they see as miscreants wasting taxpayers' money.So this...
View ArticleWill 2016 be the year we find out which 'traditional' IT suppliers survive...
The combined revenue of the five biggest global corporate IT suppliers declined by more than $12bn over their past four financial quarters - at a time when the use of technology worldwide is booming....
View ArticleThe government's patrician approach to privacy risks a spiral into ever...
It must be 15 years since the first time I wrote the phrase, "Privacy will be one of the defining challenges of the internet age". In the intervening years, that challenge has grown enormously. Allied...
View ArticleWe need coordination between old economy job cuts and digital economy job...
BT has one of its main contact centres in a tower block in Swansea city centre - it's the highest office building for miles around, just a short stroll to the sea front. From its upper-floor windows...
View ArticleGoogle tax debate is just an early example of social upheaval from the...
In many ways it is a shame that the most likely reason for a technology company to hit the headlines in national newspapers and on TV is because they don't pay enough taxes. For all the largely...
View ArticlePrivacy Shield is no solution for data protection - EU should put personal...
Many US and European businesses no doubt breathed a sigh of relief when the European Commission announced it had agreed a basis for replacing the defunct Safe Harbour data protection agreement with the...
View ArticleWhy are so many organisations bringing outsourced IT back in-house?
To outsource or to not outsource? That, for many IT leaders, has been something of a religious question for a long time. You're either a follower or you're not. But we are no nearer to answering the...
View ArticleWill Ofcom break up BT? Probably not - but it must enable fibre broadband fit...
Next week sees an announcement that will set the scene for the next 20 years of the UK's digital infrastructure. Ofcom's review of the communications market is due out within days and its potential...
View ArticleOfcom sets ambition for fully fibred broadband Britain - now industry must...
Ofcom's much-anticipated review of the communications market is a smart and pragmatic attempt by the regulator to accelerate fibre-to-the premises (FTTP) broadband across the UK - but as ever with such...
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