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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
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 -
Introducing the Devereux-Hodge shambolicness scale for rating progress of Universal Credit
- Editor in chief 16 Dec 2014 -
DWP still has lessons to learn to make Universal Credit IT a success
- Editor in chief 28 Nov 2014
Last month, I wrote in this blog about the problems that caused the new rural payments digital service to be withdrawn from use by farmers and replaced by paper forms.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 ...
If Universal Credit were made into a Hollywood rom-com, you just know that Margaret Hodge and Robert Devereux would be the central characters. Thrust into repeated opposition on different sides of ...
"Unacceptably poor management" and "wasted time and taxpayer's money" - that's how Margaret Hodge, MP, the chair of the Public Accounts Committee described Universal Credit this week.The latest ...
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What has happened to the Prime Minister's Digital Taskforce?
- Editor in chief 14 Oct 2014 -
Credit where it's due - this government has made huge progress on digital and IT
- Editor in chief 03 Oct 2014 -
Greater devolution offers a once in a lifetime opportunity to accelerate digital government
- Editor in chief 19 Sep 2014 -
Technology on trial - justice system could do better at finding digital fingerprints
- Editor in chief 21 Aug 2014 -
Congratulations to GDS on open document formats - but will Microsoft resort to litigation?
- Editor in chief 24 Jul 2014
In July, the government revealed the existence of the Prime Minister's Digital Taskforce - notable at that time mainly for the fact that Tech City chair and former Facebook Europe managing director ...
It was hugely welcome to see the prominence that digital issues were given during the Labour and Conservative party conferences. Nobody would pretend that voters will make their decisions based on ...
So Scotland is not going it alone - and in all probability the whole of the UK will be better for that decision. The independence drive engaged voters in Scotland like never before, and also ...
I've just completed jury duty - my first real-life experience of the English judicial process. It's a fascinating thing to do - I would recommend it to anyone. But it was also an eye opener for the ...
Back in February, when the UK government's consultation on the use of open document formats closed, I described the decision to be made by the Cabinet Office as the acid test of its commitment to ...