When IT Meets Politics
Recent Posts
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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
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. ...
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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 -
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
, 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 ...
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.
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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 -
Who opposes on-line age checking and why?
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Jan 2018 -
Who is serious about data protection?
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Jan 2018
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
If age checking works well it will challenge some powerful vested interests - not all of them legitimate or reputable.
The latest data breach in Leicester City Council , putting some of the most vulnerable in society at immediate risk from potential local predators, illustrates why it is so important to implement ...