Mark Ballard is a freelance journalist who writes about computer policy, crime, security, law and systems. He is also a contributor to Computer Weekly's Public Sector IT Projects blog.
Mark can be contacted by email at: markjballard @ googlemail.com .
Contributions from Mark Ballard
- Analysis: How the IT behind ID cards was never going to work
- Government iPhone ban blamed on Apple secrecy
- Hansard considers cloud to escape Microsoft lock-in
- European Commission IT chief tackles open source lobby over €189m contract
- Councils call for local government accounts to be open data
- Europe calls for global internet treaty
- Police open computer forensics schools to industry
- Government data security hobbled by cost dispute
- DWP does not keep track of CIS security breaches
- Europe defends data protection law
- Retailer to tame software suppliers
- DWP replaces 75% of desktops to save energy
- ..."> BA to cut IT energy by 25% by 2011