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Recent Posts
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UK digital identity turns to drama (or farce?) over industry fears and security doubts
- Editor in chief 16 Apr 2025 -
Distrust builds between digital ID sector and government amid speculation over 'ID cards by stealth'
- Editor in chief 01 Apr 2025 -
Can the government's new digital broom sweep the civil service clean of its resistance to change?
- Editor in chief 06 Mar 2025
Government at loggerheads with industry. Warnings of serious security and data protection problems undermining a vital public service. A burgeoning political campaign seeking greater influence. You ...
Wednesday 2 April sees the latest meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on digital identity. It’s more exciting than it sounds – honest! APPGs have no power or governmental role – ...
In September last year, Computer Weekly sat down with three of the most senior and influential digital leaders in the UK government to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead under a new ...
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A driving licence in an app is a boost for digital identity - but not for angry suppliers
- Editor in chief 04 Feb 2025 -
The UK government's AI plan covers all the bases but needs a dose of pragmatism
- Editor in chief 15 Jan 2025 -
Fear the technologists, not the technology? The rise of the tech baron
- Editor in chief 10 Jan 2025 -
Diversity in tech: To work for all, AI needs input from all
- Editor in chief 21 Nov 2024 -
Trump has won - but he cannot defeat the inevitability of digital change
- Editor in chief 07 Nov 2024 -
Once more it's deja vu all over again in digital government
- Editor in chief 03 Oct 2024 -
Labour and digital government - how's it going so far?
- Editor in chief 19 Sep 2024
It’s rare that a digital government development attracts interest from mainstream media, but last month’s announcement of a digital driving licence brought widespread national coverage and a mass ...
With the launch of its AI Opportunities Action Plan, few people can complain that the UK government is not taking the potential of artificial intelligence seriously. With 50 recommendations in the ...
News in the international media lately seems strangely dominated by a new phenomenon – more stories are being written about technologists, than technologies. With the impending inauguration of ...
If there’s one sector of the business world that has benefited most from the emerging artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, it’s market research. Rarely have there been so many surveys ...
After Donald Trump’s first presidential election victory in 2016, I wrote about how the technology sector had contributed to and enabled the controversial reality TV star’s political ascent – you ...
When you write about government IT for as long as Computer Weekly has – which is pretty much as long as “government IT” has been a thing – it’s hard not to get a sense of what can most accurately ...
As the Labour Party shifts focus from Westminster to Liverpool for its first annual conference in charge of the UK government for 15 years, MPs and members will no doubt take time to reflect on ...
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Government needs to meet with the IT users, implementors and managers to deliver its policy aims
- Editor in chief 01 Aug 2024 -
Dear Prime Minister Starmer, here's how technology can help you transform the UK for the better
- Editor in chief 08 Jul 2024 -
General election 2024: Digital threads run through all parties' manifesto commitments
- Editor in chief 14 Jun 2024 -
Post Office inquiry: So, is Paula Vennells lying or not?
- Editor in chief 23 May 2024 -
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt gives the magic technology tree a shake
- Editor in chief 07 Mar 2024
The new Labour administration started its time in government with an Olympian sprint before Parliament broke for the summer recess. Among its many new policies and programmes, we’ve seen a ...
Dear Prime Minister Starmer, Look, I know you have a horrendous in-tray to work through in your new job. The previous incumbent(s) made quite a mess of things. But you – like your predecessors – ...
We’re not yet at the stage where a general election manifesto contains an entire section on digital economy issues, alongside the expected priorities of health, education, defence, housing and so ...
When former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells began her much-anticipated evidence to the public inquiry into the scandal that unfolded on her watch, she turned to the victims and said how grateful she ...
During her ill-fated 2017 general election campaign, prime minister Theresa May told an audience of voters on the BBC that there was no “magic money tree that we can shake to get everything we ...