When IT Meets Politics
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An effective UK response to Covid 19 will require over-ruling current Ofcom policy
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Mar 2020 -
Broadband/5G Security, Resilience, Competition, Huawei, Ofcom and Brexit
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Feb 2020 -
2020 The year of VOIP assisted on-line fraud
- Winsafe Ltd 10 Jan 2020
The effect of corporate and individual responses to the Covid-19 problem is to expedite changes in demand that make a nonsense of Ofcom's recent market reviews. They also overtake most of the ...
Fast, reliable Internet access is essential for business competitiveness in a post Brexit world. It is also critical to the rest of modern society. If the fixed and mobile networks of BT/EE, ...
The Internet as we know began with a DARPA three way trial of Voice over IP using a Packet Radio Van to simulate the needs of the military for secure mobile communications. The wheel has come full ...
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Will 2020 be the year that politicians bring the Internet to heel?
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Jan 2020 -
20,000 new police will not make UK law enforcement fit for the Internet Age
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Dec 2019 -
Nicky Morgan given oven ready bill to move fast to protect children on social media
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Dec 2019 -
What can we expect the new Government to deliver and when?
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Dec 2019 -
When IT Meets Christmas, Brexit, Climate Change and other intolerance
- Winsafe Ltd 15 Dec 2019 -
Your election choice: Protectionist Stagflation or Radical (Technology enabled) Change
- Winsafe Ltd 30 Nov 2019 -
Labour breaks an emerging consensus on Broadband Policy?
- Winsafe Ltd 24 Nov 2019
The UK has the opportunity … [to become] ... a neutral arbitrator for services that are trusted by all ... [but] ... we must first demonstrate leadership in facing down those who believe they have ...
Over a decade ago the EURIM-IPPR study into “Partnership Policing for the Information Society” identified that the police would never have more than a fraction of the resources necessary to address ...
Draft Bill will enable government to deliver on ambitious manifesto commitment to ‘legislate to make the UK the safest place in the world to be online’
The manifesto … focussed on fairness, public service delivery and "place"- e.g. using infrastructure and R&D spend to bring jobs and services to the regions ... But the biggest change [will ...
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward man": regardless of whether you think God likes them or is pleased with their views on: Brexit, Climate Change, How to manage the ...
We are promised forests of magic money trees instead of plans to use technology to do more for less ... Meanwhile most on-line health systems are "As user friendly as a cornered rat"
No one size fits all needs. Every smart community (let alone "City") will probably need at least one Internet Exchange to handle local inter-operability. The UK as a whole will probably need more ...
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Has ISOC sold .Org for 30 pieces of silver? - Update 15th November
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Nov 2019 -
Making sense of the current UK Cybersecurity Skills scene
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Nov 2019 -
Insurability is the key to Cybermaturity
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Nov 2019 -
Turbocharging Full Fibre/5G Broadband
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Oct 2019 -
A Cybercommunity Safety Partnership to address On-line Harms and Abuse
- Winsafe Ltd 12 Sep 2019
The Internet Society has sold the Public Interest Registry (.Org) to a purpose built Venture Capital firm whose domain name was itself registered by an advisor to the Chinese organised World ...
But that is for the future. For the here and now I strongly recommend participation in the DPA cybersecurity skill sub-group in order to make sense of what it happening and ensure that your needs, ...
Most organisations are uninsurable. They spend large amounts on security products and services technology but they are not doing that which reduces the risk of a successful cyberattack, limits the ...
The INCA Conference provides an opportunity to "help" DCMS put flesh on the announcement of £5 billion for broadband at the Conservative Party Conference
We need voluntary co-operation to join up cybercommunity safety across silo boundaries without waiting for governments, regulators and lobbyists