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Is Number 10 waiting for Harry Potter to apply for the government CDO job?
- Editor in chief 18 Sep 2020 -
The subtle clues that show UK government is taking digital identity seriously at last (cough...)
- Editor in chief 01 Sep 2020 -
Managing IT spending amid the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis
- Editor in chief 24 Jul 2020
For many years, the UK IT community pined for a government that wants to put technology at the heart of the country’s future; one that understands the importance of bringing digital and policy ...
The UK government has finally unveiled its response to the digital identity consultation that concluded a year ago this month, and along with that announced a new Digital Identity Strategy Board to ...
Uncertainty is the new certainty. As lockdowns ease across Europe, IT leaders are surveying the wreckage of their carefully planned pre-pandemic strategies. Nothing is what it was – according to ...
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It’s time to party! Yet another government digital identity scheme is on the way
- Editor in chief 06 Jul 2020 -
GDS 'under duress' - is there a row going on down near Whitechapel?
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2020 -
Remote working works - and can herald a post-pandemic social revolution
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2020 -
Why not collaborate on an international contact-tracing app? (Well, we know why the UK won't...)
- Editor in chief 18 Jun 2020 -
Meet the Identity and Attributes Exchange – GDS’s future for digital identity after Verify
- Editor in chief 09 Jun 2020 -
Contact-tracing app tests on the Isle of Wight show that technology is not the solution
- Editor in chief 15 May 2020 -
What will a post-pandemic world look like for IT leaders?
- Editor in chief 14 May 2020
On 14 March 2021, we will mark the tenth anniversary of the official approval for the development of a single government-wide digital identity system. Save the date in your diaries. Intended to ...
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has taken its fair share of criticism in recent years – including from Computer Weekly - and much of it justified. But there’s little doubt the team at GDS HQ ...
Amid all the uncertainty and fear of the coronavirus pandemic, within the tech world surely one longstanding myth has been dismissed forever – the idea that remote working and employee productivity ...
To the surprise of nobody, the government has reversed its plans for the NHS contact-tracing app, switching from its initial centralised model to the decentralised version supported by Google and ...
As the Government Digital Service (GDS) prepares for the winding down of its Gov.uk Verify service, its future plans for digital identity are becoming a little clearer. In recent weeks, GDS has ...
The NHSX contact-tracing app has been in live testing on the Isle of Wight for over a week now, and already we can make one important conclusion – a conclusion that was surely self-evident anyway. ...
Two months into lockdown, Gartner is forecasting an 8% decline in global IT spending in 2020 – a figure that would be seen as catastrophic in any other year. But considering that some economies are ...
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DWP takes centre stage in future of Gov.uk Verify
- Editor in chief 11 May 2020 -
Don’t get too excited about ‘immunity passports’ just yet
- Editor in chief 04 May 2020 -
After Universal Credit delays, GDS's silence over Gov.uk Verify is embarrassing and shameful
- Editor in chief 02 Apr 2020 -
Budget 2020: Thanks for the cash, but there are bigger problems to solve first to boost UK tech
- Editor in chief 13 Mar 2020 -
Cabinet Office gives more non-answers on the future of Gov.uk Verify
- Editor in chief 04 Mar 2020
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has published its first blog post on Gov.uk Verify since July 2019. Given the dearth of communications about the troubled digital identity system, it tells a ...
As the UK government starts trials of its contact-tracing app in the Isle of Wight, attention will soon shift towards another potential app-enabled solution to help ease lockdown requirements and ...
In the past couple of weeks, nearly a million people have signed up for Universal Credit as a result of the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. Never has the UK government’s move to a digital-first world ...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget was a step towards making good on the new government’s promise to be “unashamedly” pro-technology. Offering £22bn in annual funding for research and ...
The remarkable levels of secrecy and avoidance of scrutiny around the Gov.uk Verify digital identity scheme continue – and if anything, seem to have reached new levels of absurdity. Last week, ...