When IT Meets Politics
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Combatting Covid Fraud: both doorstep and on-line: clarifying the sources of guidance
- Winsafe Ltd 07 Apr 2020 -
100,000 Community and Cyber Police volunteers to help handle the Covid aftermath
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Apr 2020 -
Tomorrow began last week: Preparing for a Post Covid Lockdown World
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Mar 2020
The UK is apparently the number one target for covid-related on-line fraud but doorstep fraudsters are targeting those who do not go on-line with “testing” and “decontamination” services.
The proportion of special constables to full time police has fallen over the past 20 years from 16% in 1996 to 9% in 2019. The trend is distorted by the Metropolitan Police where the proportion ...
There is much to think about while we are in lockdown if we want to live in a relatively free, safe and democratically accountable society afterwards, for however long it takes us to rebuild ...
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Is personal privacy more important than combatting Covid-19?
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Mar 2020 -
When On-line Education and Training meet the Covid-19 Lockdown
- Winsafe Ltd 22 Mar 2020 -
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 -
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
Concerns over personal privacy, of serious concern to the political activists who might be "picked off" by their opponents but not to the majority of the population, have come ahead of enthusiasm ...
The most comprehensive and authoritative source of information on changes to the availability of educational materials for those of school age is the corona virus page of the London Grid for Learning
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 ...
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 ...
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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
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 ...