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Spending review: GDS continues but big cuts ahead in Cabinet Office
- Editor in chief 20 Nov 2015 -
Spending review will show how - or if - digital is the future of the public sector
- Editor in chief 13 Nov 2015 -
Women are breaking the glass firewall in IT - but they need the men in IT to do more
- Editor in chief 05 Nov 2015
The Cabinet Office is set for higher than average budget cuts in next week's spending review, while the future of the Government Digital Service (GDS) appears to be secure - but smaller.Chancellor ...
November 25th is highlighted in red ink for any IT leader in the public sector. That's the day the chancellor, George Osborne, reveals the winners and losers in the 2015 spending review, which ...
One of the most pleasing aspects of this year's UKtech50 - Computer Weekly's annual list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT - is that over one-third of the nominees shortlisted for the ...
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Goodbye old HP, hello new HPs - but for how long?
- Editor in chief 30 Oct 2015 -
Digital transformation will not happen across local government - so what's the alternative?
- Editor in chief 22 Oct 2015 -
DVLA shows the long-overdue maturing of outsourcing in government
- Editor in chief 12 Oct 2015 -
I finally made it to Windows 10 - and can't really see why any businesses would do the same
- Editor in chief 02 Oct 2015 -
Ofcom review should aspire to a broadband infrastructure that is the envy of the world
- Editor in chief 25 Sep 2015 -
The nonsense about robots taking your job risks a culture of digital fear
- Editor in chief 18 Sep 2015 -
Buy vs build and the rise of open source are driving digital transformation
- Editor in chief 11 Sep 2015
On Monday 2nd November, HP as we know it ceases to exist. The IT supplier that once was too big to fail, becomes two companies that, if recent history is anything to go by, will be individually ...
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 ...
Former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude once described DVLA as having the worst outsourcing contract in government - and that's quite an accolade, given the number of terrible deals in the ...
Microsoft would be happy with me right now - I just upgraded to Windows 10. It was free, as a consumer, of course, so that helped. But frankly, the only reason I did so was because my seven-year ...
Perhaps Ofcom should review the UK communications market every year - because its current one certainly seems to be causing waves at BT.The regulator put the future of BT's Openreach network ...
"300,000 jobs at high risk of automation"; "Robots have put 1.3 million Londoners' jobs at risk"; "Robots could take 35% of UK jobs in the next 20 years, says new study" - these were just three of ...
One of the defining characteristics of digital transformation for most organisations is the realisation that software development is a core business activity. For much of the 1990s and 2000s, ...
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Why GDS doesn't matter - the questions for UK digital government
- Editor in chief 19 Aug 2015 -
A-levels show progress in IT education, but IT leaders can do more
- Editor in chief 14 Aug 2015 -
What next for GDS after Mike Bracken? The rumour mill begins...
- Editor in chief 03 Aug 2015 -
Read Mike Bracken's farewell email to government tech leaders
- Editor in chief 03 Aug 2015 -
With Windows 10, Microsoft has built a fine sail, but has the ship already left harbour?
- Editor in chief 31 Jul 2015
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 ...
At last. This year, computing was the fastest growing A-level subject - nearly 30% more students took the exam. At university level, applications for computer science degrees are up 3% - a small ...
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 ...
Government digital chief Mike Bracken has announced his shock departure from government, four years after taking on leadership of the Government Digital Service (GDS). There is already much ...
With Windows 10, Microsoft has built a fine sail, but has the ship already left harbour?If anything encapsulates the change in the technology world in the last 20 years, it's the relative reactions ...