"There is no point in informatics trying to enable a change in one direction when budgets are encouraging maintenance of the status quo," said Sheila Bullas, secretary of the BCS's Health Informatics Forum, at a recent BCS leadership debate on transforming health services.
Today more young professionals are choosing information security as a first career, bringing a post-graduate degree but little experience, writes John Colley, managing director EMEA of the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, (ISC)2.
Governments and administrations are transient. And however complex, they are simple when compared with the complexities that surround how ID cards may be taken to and applied by the population. ID cards are only part of the identity management solution - not the solution - nothing ever is, writes Daniel G Dresner of the National Computing Centre.
The key to this topic for me was a quote from Home Secretary Jacqui Smith: "Individuals to have as much control and ownership of their own data as possible," writes Andrea Simmons, consultant forum manager, BCS Security Forum.
The endless restructuring of the past three decades provides the backdrop for the rise of alternative, collaborative and less hierarchical ways to organise ourselves through the web: forms of organisation that rely on what I call "We Think".