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Recent Posts
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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
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 ...
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Brave new world opens up for Microsoft
- Managing Editor 11 Jun 2018 -
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 -
GDS needs to prove it can still transform government after loss of data policy to DCMS
- Editor in chief 06 Apr 2018
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 ...
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 ...
I met Mike Bracken, the first leader of the Government Digital Service (GDS), in 2011, not long after he had started the job, for an off-the-record briefing about his ambitious plans to overhaul IT ...
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When tech firms get too big - will Facebook & Google follow the cycle of IBM & Microsoft?
- Editor in chief 20 Mar 2018 -
Can technology save the day for Brexit? (*Spoilers* : No)
- Editor in chief 01 Mar 2018 -
Is cyber security becoming a cost of doing business - to the detriment of our data?
- Editor in chief 23 Feb 2018 -
Brexit fears and frustrations are mounting for UK tech sector leaders
- Editor in chief 16 Feb 2018 -
Latest Universal Credit revelations heap further pressure on Gov.uk Verify
- Editor in chief 09 Feb 2018
The technology industry is still relatively young, and certainly has a lot more growth to come. But it’s old enough now for us to see the repeating trends that make regulatory and legal ...
If you happen to be an ardent Brexiteer, a true believer in the UK government’s desire for “innovative solutions” to avoid a hard border with the Republic of Ireland, we have good news for you. The ...
Computer Weekly writes a lot about cyber security – it’s the easily most popular topic among our readers, and always rates as one of the top priorities in our annual survey of IT professionals. ...
You wouldn’t exactly classify the leaders of the UK tech sector as a bunch of liberal lefties. For all the stereotypes of bearded Shoreditch sandal-wearers that surround much of the nascent startup ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been consistently criticised for its lack of transparency since the controversial Universal Credit programme was launched nearly eight years ago. The ...