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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
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 ...
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Read Mike Bracken's farewell email to government tech leaders
- Editor in chief 03 Aug 2015 -
Immigration is a dirty word - but it's one IT has to address to solve digital skills gap
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2015 -
The state of NHS IT? Ring a random NHS trust and see if they have IT problems - it worked for us
- Editor in chief 05 Jun 2015 -
What does the end of the "Francis Maude era" mean for GDS?
- Editor in chief 15 May 2015 -
New government, same government IT? Perhaps not...
- Editor in chief 12 May 2015 -
The digital challenge for the new government
- Editor in chief 06 May 2015 -
If not GDS, then what?
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2015
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 ...
The political climate in the UK makes it difficult to talk about immigration and its effect on the IT sector, given the wider sensitivities around the subject. But it's a topic that needs to be ...
We'd like to let you in on a little secret. In the past week, Computer Weekly uncovered IT problems at two NHS trusts in the north-west of London. In one, medical staff were unable to access ...
Earlier this week, I wrote here that a new Conservative government could mean more changes in government IT than such administrative consistency would suggest. It already seems those changes may be ...
On first impressions, the Conservative election victory appears to be business as usual for IT across government. The challenges before the election are the same challenges now; the civil service ...
It's been said that the general election this week is the most important for a generation. That's probably true on a number of levels - and certainly within the microcosm of the IT and digital ...
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 ...
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Would GDS like to airbrush rural payments out of its digital exemplar history?
- Editor in chief 10 Apr 2015 -
To make Britain digital we need leaders who are part of the network, not apart from it
- Editor in chief 31 Mar 2015 -
Why it's time for the IT community to engage with politicians
- Editor in chief 13 Feb 2015 -
Apple success shows the importance of making IT invisible
- Editor in chief 30 Jan 2015 -
Windows 10 proves this is a different Microsoft - but is it different enough?
- Editor in chief 22 Jan 2015
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 ...
It's great to see so much debate taking place on social media - and hopefully in the real world - following Martha Lane Fox's Dimbleby Lecture broadcast on BBC1 last night. Regardless of what ...
No blood was spilled, but listening to the three main political parties debate their digital policies together for the first time this week laid out the battleground for their likely general ...
It's been impossible to ignore the biggest technology headline of the week - especially as it became the biggest business headline in many places too. Apple declared the largest quarterly profit in ...
The software company with 14% share of the global operating systems market announced the latest version of its flagship product this week. It's called Windows - you might have heard of it. It's not ...