Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Recent Posts
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GDS must share the lessons of Verify - good and bad - to boost the digital identity ecosystem
- Editor in chief 10 Oct 2018 -
DCMS plan aims to open up digital identity market - and might kill off Gov.uk Verify
- Editor in chief 21 Sep 2018 -
The UK can and must be a world leader in ethical regulation of the digital revolution
- Editor in chief 13 Sep 2018
Depending on your perspective, Gov.uk Verify is now either secure in its future at the heart of the UK’s emerging digital identity ecosystem, or it has one foot in the grave and is on the way to ...
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been conducting a review of digital identity since taking over policy responsibility from the Government Digital Service (GDS) in ...
The digital revolution is challenging the regulatory environment across every westernised, developed economy. Governments in the EU, UK, France, Germany and the US are each trying to take a lead in ...
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Verify on the verge – what does it mean for GDS?
- Editor in chief 07 Sep 2018 -
Get ready for S/4 Hana – it’s the new Y2K
- Managing Editor 05 Sep 2018 -
UK should worry if digital products become part of the global trade and tariff debate
- Editor in chief 26 Jul 2018 -
Just as government starts to get better at major IT projects - enter, Brexit
- Editor in chief 06 Jul 2018 -
Public scrutiny of IT failures is fundamental to IT success
- Editor in chief 22 Jun 2018 -
The next moves by DCMS on data and digital identity must lay foundations for UK's digital economy
- Editor in chief 15 Jun 2018 -
Brave new world opens up for Microsoft
- Managing Editor 11 Jun 2018
The government’s flagship digital identity system Gov.uk Verify has become a car crash in motion, accelerating towards its demise. The Cabinet Office’s project watchdog has condemned Verify by ...
There is an impending storm heading towards corporate IT, and the outlook doesn’t look sunny for cash-strapped, time-constrained IT departments. Just like in 1999 with Y2K, there is an absolute ...
Amid the global debate about trade tariffs, prompted by US president Donald Trump’s unorthodox economic policies, it’s little remarked that the digital economy is largely untouched by the ...
Slowly, slowly, the UK government is getting better at big IT projects. Thanks to Whitehall watchdog, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), we’re able to track the improvements in major ...
MPs on the Treasury select committee have been doing everyone in IT a favour lately. Thanks to pressure from their investigations, we’ve had near-unprecedented access to the real stories of what ...
Matt Hancock, the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS), is not everyone’s cup of tea – especially when that cup is Matt Hancock branded. But regardless of whether you’re ...
Arguably, open source is not an alternative to commercial software. Rather, it is a way to create software collaboratively, and at a global scale. Active contributors in the open source community ...
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UK will lose without a new approach in the global race for digital talent
- Editor in chief 31 May 2018 -
GDS aims for path of least embarrassment as it shifts strategy on Gov.uk Verify
- Editor in chief 16 May 2018 -
Will Brexit stymie government’s digital transformation ambitions?
- Editor in chief 11 May 2018 -
The biggest surprise about TSB's IT disaster is that people are still surprised when banks' IT fails
- Editor in chief 25 Apr 2018 -
Why Windrush scandal demonstrates the importance of technology to political decision-making
- Editor in chief 20 Apr 2018
More than three-quarters of UK organisations are experiencing challenges in recruiting people with digital skills, according to research from Deloitte. It’s a shocking figure, but is anyone really ...
Last week, the Government Digital Service (GDS) dedicated a whole day to talking about what it’s up to, at its first Sprint event in two years. About time too, many observers said, since GDS seemed ...
There’s rather a lot going on in government IT at the moment. Last year’s ambitious transformation strategy set challenging aims of overhauling back-office systems across Whitehall, building an ...
The only real surprise about TSB’s IT disaster this week is that people are still surprised when a retail bank has IT problems. There are few organisations with a more complex and difficult ...
The Windrush scandal has revealed many disturbing things about government policy that have nothing to do with IT. But the issues raised amply demonstrate the importance of technology considerations ...