When IT Meets Politics
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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
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, ...
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Using technology to address the demographic time bomb
- Winsafe Ltd 21 Dec 2018 -
Happy Christmas and a Hokey Cokey New Year
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Dec 2018 -
Have your Christmas Presents vanished from your doorstep?
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Dec 2018 -
Education and training to help build the future, not just preserve the past
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Sep 2018 -
Does freedom of movement discourage skills development and depress wages?
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Aug 2018 -
Why all the fuss about AI?
- Winsafe Ltd 21 Aug 2018 -
Injecting evidence into the On-line Child Safety Debate
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Jul 2018
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 ...
We have had a barrage of reports and articles telling us what the various types of Brexit deal really mean, None of them come remotely close to this for clarity and vision. That from the British ...
So far only one of the presents we have ordered on-line this year failed to arrive - more than one e-mails telling us of delivery slots arrived after the parcel. It was therefore only chance that ...
Unless you understand the past you cannot make sense of the present let alone make sensible preparations for an uncertain future. Unfortunately most discussion on education and training policy is ...
I recently looked at the Hays Index for 2017 to put the UK skills situation into international context. I strongly recommend reading the report on "Regional dynamics of the Global Labour market - ...
Why is there so much publicity for 40 year old AI techniques, albeit with more processing power, bigger data files and more reliable communications lines?
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 ...
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Guidance today for a 5G/IoT World Tomorrow
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Jul 2018 -
Addressing the Digital Infrastructure Skills Crisis
- Winsafe Ltd 26 Jun 2018 -
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
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 ...
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. ...