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When IT Meets Politics
Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.
February 2008
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Successful transformation needs more anarchy
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Feb 2008 -
The day the Internet Stopped
- Winsafe Ltd 27 Feb 2008 -
IPR Wars: fighters scrambled - is the truce over?
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2008
The UK Villages approach (enlisting the skills and enthusiasm of the local community) was a refreshing antidote to interminable arguments about using increased professionalism to reduce the death ...
Intra-UK communications are similarly vulnerable, with most of us connected to the Internet via a single point of failure, the local BT exchange through which all those unbundled lines and many ...
Rather more important is Commitment 19, the announcement of a review into the barriers to investment in the next generation broadband without which any creative cluster will atrophy and die, cut ...
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Death by Data Protection II: The Empire Strikes Back
- Winsafe Ltd 17 Feb 2008 -
How Green is your IT? Are you helping flood the planet?
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Feb 2008 -
I love it when a plan comes together
- Winsafe Ltd 11 Feb 2008 -
An Archbishop for the Internet Age
- Winsafe Ltd 11 Feb 2008 -
User centred like a laser guided bomb in Faluja
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Feb 2008 -
Is the Internet fit for life/business critical systems?
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2008
There should be no special routines for VIPs, whether Ministers or Pop Stars. Their data is probably at less risk from access by investigative journalists than that of a victim of forced marriage ...
should you be planning to site your next generation of data centres next to nuclear power stations or hydro-electric plants - as is increasingly the case in the United States?
The fact that so many bodies can come together and agree a common programme is testimony to the seriousness of the situation as seen from a user and professional pespective.
The Archbishop's comments on the reality of multiple religious and secular jurisdictions and the need to enable genuine choices of jurisdiction also apply to the many competing claims to the local ...
Failure by the rules is commonly well rewarded (promotion, cost-plus over runs, consultancy etc.). But the punishments for breaking the rules can be savage, however successful the results.
How would hospital admissions register an out-patient whose home life-support system depends on an always on Internet connection?