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So you want new IT systems for Brexit? Leaked GDS report shows it’s already too late
- Editor in chief 15 Aug 2017 -
Why does tech recruit men who have a problem with women?
- Editor in chief 11 Aug 2017 -
Tech suppliers assess the latest iteration of GDS
- Editor in chief 27 Jul 2017
There has been barely a passing public mention from the government about the need for new or redeveloped IT systems to support whatever trading and immigration regime the UK has when it leaves the ...
We have read a lot about the issue of women in technology lately, since the publication of a dubious “manifesto” by a male Google employee, postulating that women may be biologically unsuited to a ...
The general election has passed by, new ministers are in place, and so the Government Digital Service (GDS) is coming back out of its shell. As it embarks on a new parliamentary cycle, GDS is a ...
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Dear Caroline Nokes, a few items for your digital government to-do list
- Editor in chief 29 Jun 2017 -
Yet more uncertainty ahead for digital government after minister ousted in election
- Editor in chief 09 Jun 2017 -
Whoever wins election 2017, it's time for a digital minister with real authority
- Editor in chief 02 Jun 2017 -
UK government, NHS and Windows XP support - what really happened
- Editor in chief 15 May 2017 -
Can DWP meet its revised 2022 target for completion of Universal Credit?
- Editor in chief 26 Apr 2017 -
Don't expect much that's new from political parties' digital manifestos in General Election
- Editor in chief 21 Apr 2017 -
GDS changes start from the top
- Editor in chief 07 Apr 2017
I feel a little sorry for Caroline Nokes, announced this week as the latest minister responsible for digital government - the third to take on that mantle in less than a year. She’s clearly a ...
Amid all the chaos, recriminations and excitement on the morning after the General Election, the future of digital government is far from the minds of anyone other than those of us with a personal ...
You would expect, of course, that a publication such as Computer Weekly would call on whoever wins the 2017 general election to put the digital economy on its list of immediate priorities. While ...
In all the debate about the NHS ransomware attack, much has been made of a government decision in 2015 to end a contract with Microsoft to provide support for the ageing Windows XP operating system ...
In the run-up to the last UK general election in 2015, the Labour Party’s then shadow employment minister Stephen Timms pointed out that the target completion date for the Universal Credit welfare ...
Like it or not, necessary or not, we have another General Election, and while nobody will decide their vote based on a party’s digital policies, the imminent poll will raise important questions ...
Last week’s highly critical National Audit Office (NAO) report highlighted the need for change at the Government Digital Service (GDS). The NAO “found widespread views across government that GDS ...
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Can GDS avoid becoming just another Whitehall silo? Analysing the NAO's scathing critique
- Editor in chief 30 Mar 2017 -
The digital revolution is unstoppable, inevitable - and bigger than Brexit
- Editor in chief 29 Mar 2017 -
Gov.uk Verify ID providers eye the prize of HMRC’s digital users – but what happens without them?
- Editor in chief 21 Feb 2017 -
HMRC ID vs Gov.uk Verify – what’s the difference, and why it matters
- Editor in chief 15 Feb 2017 -
GDS, HMRC and Verify: so much for cross-government digital collaboration
- Editor in chief 14 Feb 2017
Prior to this week’s publication of the latest National Audit Office (NAO) report on the Government Digital Service (GDS), rumour had it the Whitehall watchdog had pulled back from serious ...
Let’s start with the disclosure. I voted for the UK to remain in the European Union (EU). My reasoning at the time was that the EU is an over-bureaucratic, dysfunctional organisation that ought to ...
In all the recent talk about whether HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is truly committed to the Cabinet Office’s Gov.uk Verify service, there’s been less said about the commitment of the external ...
The long-term row between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Government Digital Service (GDS) over online identity assurance broke into the open this week. HMRC published a blog post that ...
Less than a week after Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer announced the new government transformation strategy, its central premise is already in question after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) ...