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Recent Posts
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GDS changes start from the top
- Editor in chief 07 Apr 2017 -
Can GDS avoid becoming just another Whitehall silo? Analysing the NAO's scathing critique
- Editor in chief 30 Mar 2017 -
The digital revolution is unstoppable, inevitable - and bigger than Brexit
- Editor in chief 29 Mar 2017
Last week’s highly critical National Audit Office (NAO) report highlighted the need for change at the Government Digital Service (GDS). The NAO “found widespread views across government that GDS ...
Prior to this week’s publication of the latest National Audit Office (NAO) report on the Government Digital Service (GDS), rumour had it the Whitehall watchdog had pulled back from serious ...
Let’s start with the disclosure. I voted for the UK to remain in the European Union (EU). My reasoning at the time was that the EU is an over-bureaucratic, dysfunctional organisation that ought to ...
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Securing the post-Brexit future of the great British tech success story
- Editor in chief 24 Mar 2017 -
UK digital progress must not be hindered by Brexit uncertainty
- Editor in chief 17 Mar 2017 -
NICs increase is least of the tax worries for public sector IT contractors as IR35 fears grow
- Editor in chief 10 Mar 2017 -
UK government's digital strategy has to be welcomed - but it could have been so much more
- Editor in chief 02 Mar 2017 -
Gov.uk Verify ID providers eye the prize of HMRC’s digital users – but what happens without them?
- Editor in chief 21 Feb 2017 -
HMRC ID vs Gov.uk Verify – what’s the difference, and why it matters
- Editor in chief 15 Feb 2017 -
GDS, HMRC and Verify: so much for cross-government digital collaboration
- Editor in chief 14 Feb 2017
With the UK’s formal Brexit notification due on 29 March, heralding two years of uncertainty, the tech sector’s lobbying for consideration in negotiations with the EU is likely to intensify. Two ...
Let’s think about the UK in 2027 for a moment. By then, just 10 years from now, we will have been out of the EU for eight years. We might not even be the UK any more, but if we are, the population ...
The otherwise obscure topic of taxation for the self-employed hit the headlines this week after chancellor of the exchequer Philip Hammond announced in his latest Budget a rise in national ...
The very best thing about the government digital strategy is that it exists. The areas covered by the strategy are vitally important for the UK’s economic future – not only for our digital economy ...
In all the recent talk about whether HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is truly committed to the Cabinet Office’s Gov.uk Verify service, there’s been less said about the commitment of the external ...
The long-term row between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Government Digital Service (GDS) over online identity assurance broke into the open this week. HMRC published a blog post that ...
Less than a week after Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer announced the new government transformation strategy, its central premise is already in question after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) ...
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Government digital strategy ticks the boxes - but real transformation needs more radical ambition
- Editor in chief 10 Feb 2017 -
It's no use complaining about IT-illiterate MPs - the tech community needs to step into politics
- Editor in chief 01 Dec 2016 -
The digital economy and the Autumn Statement: Good start, please do more
- Editor in chief 25 Nov 2016 -
No surprises, few measurable targets, but one big challenge for the new government digital strategy
- Editor in chief 15 Nov 2016 -
How the technology sector helped create President Trump
- Editor in chief 10 Nov 2016
The long wait for the new government digital strategy may have caused frustration in some places, but clearly within the Cabinet Office the extensive delays have brought expectations to a peak of ...
Twice in the past week, the UK government has passed legislation despite overwhelming concerns from the technology community. The Digital Economy Bill – a mostly sensible attempt to update laws ...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond’s Autumn Statement showed a welcome and necessary understanding of the need to look at the long-term future of the UK’s digital economy. The £1bn ...
After another summer of turmoil at the Government Digital Service (GDS), with several senior executives leaving and a new chief brought in to the surprise of many, expectations for its new strategy ...
It’s probably fair to say that the world doesn’t need another journalist trying to explain why Donald Trump won the US presidency right now. Nonetheless, I think that we in the technology sector ...