Computer Weekly Editors Blog

June 2014

• Big IT vs SME IT in government - it's really about changing IT suppliers' behaviour

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 26 Jun 2014

The Cabinet Office plan to bring in more SME IT suppliers and reduce dependence on the old "oligopoly" of big systems integrators (SIs) was always going to come under greater scrutiny once some of ...

• Invest in the UK's IT heartland to secure the future of our digital economy

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 18 Jun 2014

It's the first ever London Technology Week this week, an apparent attempt to make tech a part of the capital's international trendy calendar alongside the likes of London Fashion Week and London ...

• Can social science save the web?

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 13 Jun 2014

Pretty much every week these days you can expect a story in Computer Weekly on one of two topics: the growing importance and influence of the web to business and economic development; and the ...

• Russia invests £2.8bn to deliver 10Mbps fibre broadband across the country

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 06 Jun 2014

Earlier this week, I was in Moscow, visiting the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Russia's $15bn attempt to create a tech startup environment to compete with Silicon Valley.I mentioned in one of my ...

• Russia's investment in tech startups depends on overcoming concerns of its new web-savvy generation

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 05 Jun 2014

According to Bloomberg's ranking of the most innovative countries in the world, Russia ranks only 18th - ahead of China but behind not only most of its global competitors, but also relative minnows ...

• Bringing the technology world to Russia

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 03 Jun 2014

The billions of rubles of government money being invested in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on the outskirts of Moscow (read my previous post for more details) is not only going into developing the ...

• How Moscow money and the post-Soviet generation hope to create Russia's Silicon Valley

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 02 Jun 2014

The Skolkovo Innovation Centre is about a half-hour drive from Red Square, in a 400 hectare building site on the outskirts of Moscow. Today and tomorrow, it's the venue for the second annual ...