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Recent Posts
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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
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, ...
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Would you still consider the UK an attractive destination for global tech talent?
- Editor in chief 28 Feb 2020 -
Want to hear the latest on Gov.uk Verify? Sorry, GDS still has nothing to say
- Editor in chief 14 Feb 2020 -
Technology is losing its battle to be a unifying force
- Editor in chief 30 Jan 2020 -
Here we go again - strap yourself in for the next 10-year ride in digital government transformation
- Editor in chief 08 Jan 2020 -
The Horizon scandal is over but the fight continues - an inquiry into the Post Office is essential
- Editor in chief 17 Dec 2019 -
Vilified then vindicated - victory for subpostmasters in Post Office trial shows risk of tech hubris
- Editor in chief 11 Dec 2019 -
Everyone in UK tech must hold the new government to account on its digital promises
- Editor in chief 06 Dec 2019
Imagine you’re a skilled, ambitious IT professional living outside the UK and you want to maximise your earning potential and your exposure to the latest technology. You’re assessing where in the ...
The great and the good of the digital identity sector gathered in London yesterday (13 February) for the Think Digital Identity for Government conference – a popular bi-annual event that always ...
The pioneers of the internet and the web saw themselves as liberators. They believed, passionately, they were creating a better world – one that was open, collaborative, broke down barriers, and ...
There’s a new UK government, one with a comfortable majority, and it’s clear it wants to use that advantage for radical change. The new prime minister says the government has “a mission to ...
There are not enough words to fully express the depth of scandal and outrage that should accompany the conclusion of the High Court case that finally and completely found that the Post Office ...
In 2004, Computer Weekly received a letter from Alan Bates, a former subpostmaster in Craig-y-Don, a coastal suburb of Llandudno in north Wales. It’s that long ago that the letter arrived ...
When Computer Weekly set out to compare and analyse the tech and digital policies in the major political parties’ manifestos for the 2019 General Election, the article extended comfortably to ...
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Looking back at 10 years of UKtech50 - what can we learn?
- Editor in chief 29 Nov 2019 -
Labour's broadband plan won't work - but let's have a national debate to find a plan that does
- Editor in chief 15 Nov 2019 -
IT employers must recognise benefits of flexible workforce and not hit contractors over IR35 reforms
- Editor in chief 25 Oct 2019 -
IT leaders must recognise and acknowledge the growing mental health issues from working in tech
- Editor in chief 11 Oct 2019 -
Could Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings' ‘secret’ data sharing plan work?
- Editor in chief 11 Sep 2019
Every year when Computer Weekly announces its UKtech50 list of the most influential people in UK technology, it’s an opportunity to look at what the names that feature tell us about the latest ...
So, the Labour Party wants free full-fibre broadband for all, and to nationalise Openreach. Cue bedlam on social media as the telecoms industry slams the proposals and the Conservatives scream, ...
For any IT professional who has managed to make a living as a contractor for the past 20 years, the acronym IR35 must be like a crucifix held up to a vampire. The tax reforms were considered ...
As Computer Weekly readers will know, there are many great reasons for working in tech – it’s fast-moving and creative, it’s changing the way we live and work, and mostly it’s well remunerated. ...
Prime minister Boris Johnson and his controversial special advisor, Dominic Cummings, are “secretly” working on a plan to gather citizen data from across Whitehall to be used for targeting ...