When IT Meets Politics
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Why I will be voting for Jeremy Hunt
- Winsafe Ltd 02 Jul 2019 -
Who is serious about On-line Harms?
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Jun 2019 -
Is the internet destroying Western Liberal Democracy?
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Jun 2019
Three years ago I blogged on why I made the mistake of voting Remain. I would still prefer the UK to be a member of a reformed, multi-track, democratically accountable European Union. But that is ...
1) DCMS kicks the can down the road - again The deadline for submissions to the DCMS consultation on On Line Harms is July 1st. The NAO report politely savaging the UK failure to join up its ...
There is an irony in the appointment by the House of Lords of a committee to explore the impact of digital technologies on democracy. The Internet is now, however, global. The majority of users ...
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A hospice for a dying HE/FE funding regime - A review of the Augar Report
- Winsafe Ltd 07 Jun 2019 -
Passing the baton on Cybersecurity Skills
- Winsafe Ltd 31 May 2019 -
IT in the Tory Candidates' Manifestos
- Winsafe Ltd 29 May 2019 -
5/10 for the IfA Digital Apprenticeships Standards Review
- Winsafe Ltd 25 May 2019 -
Are you proud or ashamed to work in IT?
- Winsafe Ltd 19 May 2019 -
Brexit: golden rules and taboo questions
- Winsafe Ltd 10 May 2019 -
Will Advertisers and Insurers hold Social Media Platforms to Account after Governments fail
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Feb 2019
The report of the Independent Panel to the Review into the funding of Further and Higher Education was not just about Student loans and University Funding . But most of the 370 submissions came ...
This year will be the first time I visit Infosec with no agenda. Or to be more precise I will have a Community Safety rather than a Cybersecurity Skills Agenda. This has caused me to take a cool ...
I added a comment on Dominic Rabb's inclusion of degree apprenticeships in his call for Fairness and Choice to my recent blog on the IfA apprenticeship review. In his opening campaign letter Rory ...
The Statutory Review of the Digital Apprenticeship standards inherited by the Institute for Apprenticeships answers less than half the question. Much of the question (e.g. allowable costs) is ...
I like the Tech UK response to the Doteveryone report but we also need the 80% of optimists to also join the political party of their choice and work to produce policies that will: Address the ...
Amid the repetition of mendacious claims, meaningless mantras and fake news, some Brexit questions are off limits. No wants publicity for answers which reveal what is feallt at stake and for whom.
The Shareholder Backlash Most digerati appear to be in a state of denial over the scale and nature of the damage being done by the abuse of social media. It is fuelling family breakdown, mental ...
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Fit for whose purpose? Submit your views on the Initial National Cybersecurity Skills Strategy
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Feb 2019 -
A Skills Policy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Feb 2019 -
Digital Britain Needs You
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2019 -
Addressing the shortages of construction skills that threaten Broadband Roll-out
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Dec 2018 -
Using technology to address the demographic time bomb
- Winsafe Ltd 21 Dec 2018
The meeting illustrated the difficulty of the task the DCMS team will have reconciling the need of MoD and GCHQ for patriotic cyberwarriors and the need of the rest of us for the skills to protect ...
The pace of change in the skills in demand (as machine intelligence, now called AI, matures) is matched only by the pace of change in educational technology (using machine intelligence to transform ...
BT has announced plans to train another 3,000 apprentices on top of 3,500 engineers, including apprentices, hired last year. The announcement included an update on BT’s plans for new and upgraded ...
Problems with quality, not just quantity threaten to derail full fibre roll out as they did cable TV roll out 25 years ago. Over the past couple of years broadband roll-out projects (BT, Virgin, ...
The big challenge for 2019 is not Brexit. It is the demographic time bomb. Britain can no more leave "Europe" than it makes sense to tie our economy to a protectionist "ever closer Union". I will ...