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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
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 ...
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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 -
GDS reveals details of digital identity pilot for passport data checks
- Editor in chief 30 Aug 2019 -
Gov.uk Verify’s £40m bill for losing Experian
- Editor in chief 28 Aug 2019 -
Why Gov.uk Verify faces a critical few months - again
- Editor in chief 05 Aug 2019 -
The only tech question that matters for a new PM: are you ready for the digital future, Mr Johnson?
- Editor in chief 25 Jul 2019 -
We shouldn't need to debate online identity again, but it's right that we do
- Editor in chief 11 Jul 2019
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 ...
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has published details of the planned pilot project for opening up passport data to companies that wish to offer digital identity services. GDS recently held a ...
The Government Digital Service (GDS) insists that its plans for Gov.uk Verify “remain on track” despite the withdrawal of three of the five remaining identity providers (IDPs) supporting the ...
Gov.uk Verify – the government’s flagship digital identity system – faces a critical few months ahead. Again. As the clock ticks down towards the end of March 2020, when further public investment ...
It’s traditional upon the coronation of a new Prime Minister to write a list of all the things they need to address in the tech and digital sectors. It would be a long list – digital skills, IT ...
The latest select committee report by MPs into the progress of digital government in the UK has resurrected a question that has reared its head on several occasions in the past – do we need a ...
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‘A breath of fresh air’ for Gov.uk Verify?
- Editor in chief 07 Jun 2019 -
Gov.uk Verify is the Theresa May of digital government
- Editor in chief 08 May 2019 -
Huawei furore leads inevitably to a global polarisation of the tech sector
- Editor in chief 02 May 2019 -
When will we see the digital transformation of politics?
- Editor in chief 12 Apr 2019 -
MPs hear more revelations about Gov.uk Verify as troubled project gets a new leader
- Editor in chief 25 Mar 2019
Three months ago, the Government Digital Service (GDS) appointed the first ever director of digital identity, Lisa Barrett – tasked with taking on the troubled Gov.uk Verify programme. Barrett ...
Gov.uk Verify is the Theresa May of digital government. The embattled Prime Minister faces calls to quit from all around – her own Conservative MPs, grassroots Tory activists, the right-wing press ...
The sacking of defence minister Gavin Williamson is another indication of how technology is influencing politics, and vice versa. While his crime was to leak details from a national security ...
The digital transformation of government and public service delivery is well under way and is by now – hopefully – unstoppable. It’s taken longer to get here than it should have, and it will take ...
Hello and good luck, to Lisa Barrett - the newly appointed director of digital identity at the Government Digital Service (GDS). She's taken on what many people outside GDS see as something of a ...