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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
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 -
Hubris over Horizon? Post Office shocks High Court with accusation of bias
- Editor in chief 22 Mar 2019 -
NAO hammers another nail into Gov.uk Verify
- Editor in chief 06 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 ...
The Post Office likes to describes itself as “the nation’s most trusted brand”. Anyone following the latest developments in the increasingly heated High Court case about its Horizon IT system would ...
It’s not commonly known outside Whitehall that by the time the National Audit Office (NAO) – Parliament’s independent spending watchdog – publishes a report, it will have been through several ...
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NHS takes a small digital step into the 21st century - with bigger ones to come
- Editor in chief 15 Feb 2019 -
Of course there's technology for the Irish border - that doesn't mean it will work
- Editor in chief 07 Feb 2019 -
Hello 2019, same as 2018 (mostly)
- Editor in chief 04 Jan 2019 -
O2 outage proves the weakest link in the digital revolution is fallibly human
- Editor in chief 07 Dec 2018 -
IT community needs to counter concerns behind 'big tech' backlash
- Editor in chief 22 Nov 2018
Here is our quote of the week: “We spend £8m a year on paper. We spend £2m a year on envelopes. We can save lives, save staff time and cut costs by using an extraordinary piece of technology that ...
It’s understandable that people express cynicism when a politician – particularly one with a clear ideological bent – proclaims that “digital” or “technology” can solve the core Brexit issue of the ...
“Nothing changes, on New Year’s Day,” sang U2 many years ago. This piece of self-evident wisdom doesn’t stop the world of tech punditry from excitedly making hyperbolic forecasts at the start of ...
So it turns out the O2 mobile network failure that took out data access for some 30 million people this week, was caused by an expired software certificate – no great conspiracy, no programming ...
Sometimes reporting the latest tech news at Computer Weekly throws up an entertaining juxtaposition. Take these two headlines, for example, from last week: TechUK calls on Matt Hancock to ...