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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 -
Are the UK's borders being compromised by legacy IT systems?
- Editor in chief 02 May 2014
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 ...
My sources suggest that the IT problems that affected UK airports and sea ports earlier this week were related to Warnings Index, the ageing system that sits at the heart of the UK's border ...
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Is DWP looking for yet another new chief for Universal Credit?
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2014 -
Who wants Windows XP to live forever?
- Editor in chief 04 Apr 2014 -
GDS becomes political as Labour launches digital government review
- Editor in chief 11 Mar 2014 -
Is DWP about to lose its CIO?
- Editor in chief 05 Mar 2014 -
Thanks Microsoft - we now know that everybody prefers ODF to OOXML for government document standards
- Editor in chief 24 Feb 2014 -
The lesson from the NHS Care.data row: You can't keep privacy issues private any more
- Editor in chief 18 Feb 2014 -
Coding for kids is great - but where do digital skills come from in the meantime?
- Editor in chief 14 Feb 2014
Is the troubled Universal Credit programme looking for yet another new leader for the project?A good contact of mine has told me that he was approached by two separate headhunters recently, asking ...
And so the most popular PC operating system of all time reaches the final winter of its years.Windows XP goes out of regular support on 8 April, but it is testament to its enduring success that ...
Government IT - and in particular, the role of the Government Digital Service - is about to get political. Tomorrow night, the Labour Party launches its digital government review, a programme ...
I've been told that the Department for Work and Pensions CIO, Andy Nelson, is about to step down from the role.The information came from a usually reliable source, but at the time of writing this, ...
Microsoft's call to its friends in the software community to contribute to the government's consultation on open document formats seems to have worked. Although, perhaps not as Microsoft intended. ...
The rumbling, growing row over the NHS England Care.data service has become an instruction manual for how not to handle data privacy in the digital age.For anyone not aware of the issue, Care.data ...
There has been a lot of discussion lately on the topic of teaching school children how to code. Some controversy has ensued - as ever - around some of the initiatives, but there is little ...
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The question that matters on Universal Credit: Do you believe Iain Duncan Smith?
- Editor in chief 06 Feb 2014 -
When will government IT teams learn they are not as different as they think
- Editor in chief 14 Jan 2014 -
Universal Credit IT: What we know; what we don't know
- Editor in chief 12 Dec 2013 -
Universal Credit - now the role of IT suppliers must come under scrutiny
- Editor in chief 06 Nov 2013 -
How much worse will Universal Credit IT problems get?
- Editor in chief 12 Sep 2013
Do you believe Iain Duncan Smith?This is becoming a key question in the progress of the troubled Universal Credit welfare reform programme. The secretary of state for work and pensions has staked ...
We learned today of another government IT fiasco - millions of pounds being wasted at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on a system for recruiting soldiers and reservists for the Army. The project was ...
"There is no debacle on Universal Credit" declared Iain Duncan Smith in his opening salvo to MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee this week.The beleaguered secretary of state yet again ...
It is increasingly likely the government will have to write-off most, if not all, of the £303m spent so far on developing IT to support Universal Credit. Multiple sources told Computer Weekly that ...
How much worse might things get with the troubled Universal Credit IT programme?Last week, we learned through a National Audit Office report that already £34m of IT work has been written off. This ...