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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
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 ...
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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 -
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
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 ...
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 ...
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When software becomes a utility, everything changes - and it will
- Editor in chief 31 Aug 2012 -
Making the Olympics a showcase for IT
- Editor in chief 03 Aug 2012 -
Why we don't want to write about 'women in IT' anymore
- Editor in chief 13 Jul 2012 -
Is HP too big to fail?
- Editor in chief 24 May 2012 -
Your last chance to influence government open standards
- Editor in chief 21 May 2012
It's a challenge faced so far only by the most ultra-successful software companies, but a major turning point comes when a product becomes a utility. It doesn't happen often, but there's a big ...
So far, the London 2012 Olympics has been a triumph all round. An amazing opening ceremony, Team GB gold medals sprinkled generously around, and even the transport system has coped. Ironically, one ...
We've been asked a few times why we put together an award and an event to showcase women in IT. It's quite simple - we don't want to have to discuss the issue of women in IT again. How much better ...
What on earth is going on at HP? After three years riven by changes in CEO (three times) and in strategy (lost count), the company seems to barely know what it is or where it is heading. This month ...
After the controversy of the early meetings in the government's consultation on open standards, we're now down to the last few weeks of what is a hugely important process. After a slow start, the ...