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Recent Posts
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Universal Credit IT: Separating the truth and the lies - you decide
- Editor in chief 05 Sep 2013 -
DWP prepares the ground for NAO to reveal what's really happening in Universal Credit IT
- Editor in chief 04 Sep 2013 -
Unhappy Universal Credit staff point to continuing IT problems
- Editor in chief 06 Aug 2013
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith - the person ultimately responsible for the delivery of Universal Credit - has been touring TV and radio stations this morning, and facing questions in ...
In an unprecedented show of partial openness, the head of the troubled Universal Credit programme has gone public on some of the problems in the government's flagship welfare reform project.This ...
So, what's really going on with the Universal Credit IT programme?If you trust journalistic warning bells - and believe the saying that there's no smoke without fire - then there has to be ...
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The end of the CIO in government - what's in a job title?
- Editor in chief 15 Jul 2013 -
10 things men in IT can do to help get women into IT
- Editor in chief 10 Jul 2013 -
There is only one solution to the issue of 'women in IT' - it's men in IT
- Editor in chief 05 Jul 2013 -
DCMS land-grab is a threat to IT's political and economic future
- Editor in chief 06 Jun 2013 -
Is G-Cloud changing the behaviour of the big IT suppliers?
- Editor in chief 14 May 2013 -
Election countdown begins for Whitehall IT reforms
- Editor in chief 03 May 2013 -
The vultures circle over Universal Credit IT
- Editor in chief 08 Mar 2013
The days of the CIO role in central government are over. Computer Weekly has followed the steady demise of the Whitehall CIO for some time, since it became clear that the key IT reformers at the ...
We all know there is a problem getting women into the IT profession. I wrote last week that the only real solution to this problem lies with the men in IT - as the dominant group, the only way to ...
This time last year, after Computer Weekly announced the first of our now-annual list of the 25 most influential women in IT, I wrote in this blog about why we don't want to have to write about the ...
The IT industry's vital role in the UK economy is under threat from what appears to be a desperate attempt by a Whitehall department to avoid being cut back or even scrapped in chancellor George ...
The government's G-Cloud has its critics, who like to cite the relatively few millions of pounds of spending put through the programme as being tiny compared to the annual £16bn government IT ...
Two years from this week, it's the next General Election.Unless the Coalition collapses before 7 May 2015, the election date is fixed and immovable. That means there are just 24 months left for the ...
The vultures are circling over the IT behind the government's Universal Credit (UC) programme. Computer Weekly has catalogued the gradual drip-feed of concerns and rumours around the highest ...
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Your customers are digital - are you?
- Editor in chief 10 Jan 2013 -
Universal Credit - the last failure of the old IT regime, or a boost for the new?
- Editor in chief 16 Nov 2012 -
The government's open standards policy is bold, important and very carefully written
- Editor in chief 01 Nov 2012 -
Gary McKinnon's legacy
- Editor in chief 17 Oct 2012 -
Everybody lost in NHS IT disaster
- Editor in chief 06 Sep 2012
In the hopefully unlikely eventuality that your company executives still need convincing that the internet is going to transform your business, the past few days have provided further evidence of ...
There are two things that often signal a major government IT project on the brink of disaster. First, streams of leaks appear suggesting little problems here and rather bigger problems there; and ...
The government has finally released its policy for open standards in IT - after an often controversial consultation process - and it will surprise and delight many observers who expected a meek ...
So Gary McKinnon stays free - for now. At Computer Weekly, we've followed the self-confessed hacker's story for the 10 years it's taken to fight his extradition to the US. Along the way we've seen ...
A degree of ironic congratulation is due to the Department of Health (DoH) and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude for finally extricating the NHS from its disastrous contract with CSC. The ...