Computer Weekly Editors Blog
April 2015
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If not GDS, then what?
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2015 -
Is local government capable of the radical change it needs?
- Editor in chief 27 Apr 2015 -
Amazon Web Services is showing traditional IT players how they need to change
- Editor in chief 24 Apr 2015
The closer we've come to the UK general election, the more it seems the Government Digital Service (GDS) is taking a public bashing. You might wonder why.It's certainly true to say that GDS divides ...
Local government IT leaders have spent the last five years of austerity implementing the most dramatic cost cuts the sector has ever seen. Yet they await a new government after the UK general ...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is clearly doing something right. The e-commerce giant has split out AWS revenues for the first time in its latest financial results, revealing a $5bn business growing at ...
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The missing election manifesto promise - educating MPs on the UK's digital opportunity
- Editor in chief 16 Apr 2015 -
Would GDS like to airbrush rural payments out of its digital exemplar history?
- Editor in chief 10 Apr 2015
Who is going to be the big digital winner after the 2015 general election? Congratulations to anyone involved with smart ticketing on public transport - you're in for a good time. The one area that ...
Last month, I wrote in this blog about the problems that caused the new rural payments digital service to be withdrawn from use by farmers and replaced by paper forms. The system was one of the 25 ...