Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Recent Posts
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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 -
What has happened to the Prime Minister's Digital Taskforce?
- Editor in chief 14 Oct 2014
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 ...
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 ...
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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 -
Universal Credit business case not approved - obfuscation from the most open government in history
- Editor in chief 08 Jul 2014 -
To every male IT leader - it is your responsibility to get more women into IT
- Editor in chief 04 Jul 2014 -
Labour's digital rhetoric is increasingly positive towards GDS
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2014
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 ...
The government has finally been forced to admit that the business case for the troubled Universal Credit programme has still not been signed off - despite repeated assurances that approval was ...
Congratulations to the 25 most influential women in UK IT - our annual list was announced yesterday, and it contains some amazing, high-achieving individuals (who happen to be women). The event at ...
Labour MP Jon Cruddas gave a speech this week that was barely reported in the press, but contained his party's most significant statements yet about the role of digital and technology in a ...
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Dear HP, Microsoft (and others) - stop bleating, start competing
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2014 -
Can social science save the web?
- Editor in chief 13 Jun 2014 -
Russia invests £2.8bn to deliver 10Mbps fibre broadband across the country
- Editor in chief 06 Jun 2014 -
Bringing the technology world to Russia
- Editor in chief 03 Jun 2014 -
How Moscow money and the post-Soviet generation hope to create Russia's Silicon Valley
- Editor in chief 02 Jun 2014
There's an interesting story in The Independent today that highlights the issue I wrote about on this blog last week - about the Cabinet Office policy of trying to make the old "oligopoly" of big ...
Pretty much every week these days you can expect a story in Computer Weekly on one of two topics: the growing importance and influence of the web to business and economic development; and the ...
Earlier this week, I was in Moscow, visiting the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Russia's $15bn attempt to create a tech startup environment to compete with Silicon Valley.I mentioned in one of my ...
The billions of rubles of government money being invested in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on the outskirts of Moscow (read my previous post for more details) is not only going into developing the ...
The Skolkovo Innovation Centre is about a half-hour drive from Red Square, in a 400 hectare building site on the outskirts of Moscow. Today and tomorrow, it's the venue for the second annual ...