Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Recent Posts
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Universal Credit shows it is time to make all major government projects open and transparent
- Editor in chief 15 Apr 2016 -
In the digital revolution, the Luddites are the ones in charge
- Editor in chief 07 Apr 2016 -
Are there more changes ahead for the Government Digital Service?
- Editor in chief 24 Mar 2016
After four years of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spending taxpayers' money on legal fees to prevent the release of key Universal Credit documents, the only surprise revealed by their ...
Between 1811 and 1813, English textile workers and weavers conducted a campaign of protests, sabotage and occasional rioting against the spread of new technology that threatened their livelihoods ...
As we all know, the Government Digital Service (GDS) was awarded £450m by George Osborne in his Autumn Statement last year. A business plan detailing how that money will be spent was due to be ...
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What now for Universal Credit - and could Iain Duncan Smith quitting lift the veil of secrecy?
- Editor in chief 21 Mar 2016 -
Blockchain will bring a radical rethink of banking - but not yet
- Editor in chief 04 Mar 2016 -
Will Ofcom break up BT? Probably not - but it must enable fibre broadband fit for the future
- Editor in chief 19 Feb 2016 -
Why are so many organisations bringing outsourced IT back in-house?
- Editor in chief 12 Feb 2016 -
We need coordination between old economy job cuts and digital economy job creation
- Editor in chief 18 Jan 2016 -
The government's patrician approach to privacy risks a spiral into ever greater surveillance
- Editor in chief 15 Jan 2016 -
All of us need to play our part to influence the role of technology in the UK economy
- Editor in chief 04 Dec 2015
Amid all the political fallout and the carnage within the Conservative Party since the shock resignation of work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith last week, many observers have started ...
Rarely has an emerging technology experienced both the levels of hype and the levels of anti-hype that exists around blockchain at the moment. For every supporter proclaiming the distributed ledger ...
Next week sees an announcement that will set the scene for the next 20 years of the UK's digital infrastructure. Ofcom's review of the communications market is due out within days and its potential ...
To outsource or to not outsource? That, for many IT leaders, has been something of a religious question for a long time. You're either a follower or you're not. But we are no nearer to answering ...
BT has one of its main contact centres in a tower block in Swansea city centre - it's the highest office building for miles around, just a short stroll to the sea front. From its upper-floor ...
It must be 15 years since the first time I wrote the phrase, "Privacy will be one of the defining challenges of the internet age". In the intervening years, that challenge has grown enormously. ...
Influence is a wonderfully subjective measure by which to gauge successful people in the UK technology scene. Influence can be negative as well as positive. You might be influenced by a particular ...
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GDS gets a £450m budget boost - and a £3.5bn incentive to prove digital really works
- Editor in chief 27 Nov 2015 -
Software is never perfect - and that includes the Post Office's controversial Horizon system
- Editor in chief 20 Nov 2015 -
Digital transformation will not happen across local government - so what's the alternative?
- Editor in chief 22 Oct 2015 -
Why GDS doesn't matter - the questions for UK digital government
- Editor in chief 19 Aug 2015 -
What next for GDS after Mike Bracken? The rumour mill begins...
- Editor in chief 03 Aug 2015
Even people close to the Government Digital Service (GDS) seem surprised - pleasantly so - by the announcement of a £450m budget over the rest of this Parliament. While it's still not clear exactly ...
Software goes wrong. Every developer knows that. Even the most thoroughly tested piece of software can come up with an unexpected set of circumstances that cause it to behave in an equally ...
We often hear local government talked about as if it were a single entity. It's particularly common in digital circles - "We need a digital transformation of local government!" being a typical ...
The summer parliamentary recess is meant to be a quiet time for anyone writing about government matters, but for those of us following all things technology it's been an unexpectedly busy ...
Within minutes of Mike Bracken announcing his departure as the government's digital chief, Twitter was full of tributes from people in his team at the Government Digital Service (GDS), and from the ...