When IT Meets Politics
Recent Posts
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Injecting evidence into the On-line Child Safety Debate
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Jul 2018 -
Guidance today for a 5G/IoT World Tomorrow
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Jul 2018 -
Addressing the Digital Infrastructure Skills Crisis
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Jun 2018
1 in 10 of those who video chat with strangers have been asked to change or undress on camera … we need open and honest debate, not obfuscation and claims that these are technical matters, too ...
This might best be achieved by engaging sponsors via sector/market/problem specific practitioner workshops to distil current good practice into draft guidance that could be used by those who will ...
Most of the skills in short supply can be acquired and assessed within days or weeks provided employers and those in their supply chains come together to agree standards and organise co-operation ...
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A UK Strategy for the 4th Industrial Revolution?
- Winsafe Ltd 31 May 2018 -
Digital Skills - the view from 1997
- Winsafe Ltd 31 May 2018 -
After us the drought of democracy?
- Winsafe Ltd 23 May 2018 -
Skills audits back as insourcing gathers pace
- Winsafe Ltd 16 May 2018 -
No2ID and the Empire Windrush
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Apr 2018 -
Bringing military discipline to UK Technical Education and Training
- Winsafe Ltd 08 Apr 2018 -
Crossing the watershed – digital skills crises will soon be history
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Apr 2018
Those who attacked my analysis because it undermined all they held dear (from “the examination treadmill” to the “PhD rat race”) have successfully resisted change to Government academic funding and ...
Education and training policy must better distinguish between core educational and academic skills (which rarely change over time) and vocational and technology skills (where traditional methods ...
The BBC cover of a report from the Environment Agency warning of serious water shortages by 2050 while sufficient to supply 20 million consumers is being wasted prompted an attack of déjà vu. ...
, This morning I received an e-mail with extracts from a Gartner press release saying: “Infrastructure and Operations skills (I&O) gaps will cause 75% of organizations to experience visible ...
The "scandal" concerning the "Windrush Generation" appears to be collateral damage from the failure to agree coherent policies for sharing public sector identities and personal information after ...
On April 6th at the launch of the Apprenticeships Anthology Sir Gerry Berragan, the Chief Executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships outlined progress over the past year and updated his 10 ...
There is no shortage of talent, only of employers who train that talent. Thirty years ago it took around 18 months turn a University Graduate into a competent analyst programmer. During that second ...
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Is the Facebook furore another piece of Fake News
- Winsafe Ltd 24 Mar 2018 -
Read the PMs Brexit speech - for why the BBC is so anti-Brexit
- Winsafe Ltd 02 Mar 2018 -
The Prime Minister's Skills Funding Review goes well beyond "mere" funding
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Mar 2018 -
Who should the BBC "reflect, represent and serve"?
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Feb 2018 -
Is Brexit an existential threat to the new (including digital) Establishment?
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Feb 2018
The story of how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data collected by an Academic intermediary to supposedly help Remain "steal" the UK referendum campaign and Trump "steal" the US Presidential ...
The details in the Prime Minister's speech, including that dismissed as Geekspeak in the mass media, helps explain what is really at stake in the negotiations and why the BBC and the Online ...
The Prime Minister has called on a former banker to review the UK skills system. Expect fireworks when the implications are understood.
The Ofcom review of the BBC role in reflecting, representing and serving the British public is central to the survival of both democracy and the establishment.
Uncontrolled Brexit is an existential threat to the British Establishment and the Westminster lobbying community