Computer Weekly Editors Blog
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Here's the obligatory 'What IT leaders can learn from Leicester City FC' story
- Editor in chief 20 May 2016 -
Next in the digital revolution: commoditisation of processes
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2016 -
Liam Maxwell: The man who checks the homework
- Editor in chief 19 Apr 2016
As a football fan, it’s not often I get to indulge in a bit of technology-football crossover, but the Leicester City fairytale is too good an opportunity to miss. It seems it’s also a story that ...
One of the questions most commonly asked of technology journalists is, “What’s the next big thing in tech?” It’s easy enough to answer – at the moment, you would point to emerging trends such as ...
Former Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude used to call Liam Maxwell "the man who checks the homework". First as an advisor to Maude, then as government CTO, Maxwell was responsible for making ...
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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 -
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
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 ...
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 ...
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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 -
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
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 ...
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 ...