When IT Meets Politics
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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 UK's leading employer bodies call for Apprenticeship Levy to be opened up
- Winsafe Ltd 02 Sep 2019
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
An open letter to the Chancellor The Recruitment and Employment confederation has pulled together a coalition of business organisations, representing tens of thousands of employers and millions of ...
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Towards a joined-up Cybersecurity Policy
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Aug 2019 -
From Action Fraud to Action Plans
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Aug 2019 -
A new look at the Cybersecurity Skills Market
- Winsafe Ltd 13 Aug 2019 -
The restructuring of digital markets has begun
- Winsafe Ltd 29 Jul 2019 -
How long before the shareholders break up BT?
- Winsafe Ltd 20 Jul 2019 -
Help set the forward agenda for Schools and Skills
- Winsafe Ltd 15 Jul 2019 -
Why I will be voting for Jeremy Hunt
- Winsafe Ltd 02 Jul 2019
It is not enough to have policies that satisfy the conflicting requirements of the EU and US for data protection, including notification to attract fraudsters to the victims of a breach, like ...
1 Action Fraud had an impossible task The Times undercover investigation at Action Fraud has led to a rash of publicity, both tabloid and professional . The only surprise is that it has taken so ...
Hence the need to address the cyberskills for justice and deterrence , not just those for cyberwarfare, protection and surveillance. And the more widespread those skills, the more dangerous the ...
Change is accelerating, making attempts to predict the future in order to regulate it ever more impractical - although that does not appear to stop some regulators from trying.
The BT share price looks set to drift down to under a £pound. That would leave it unable to invest other than from cash flows and Government subsidies. It would also be unsaleable because of the ...
Current UK digital skills policy is disjointed and unsustainable. Help set the agenda for harnessing our native talent instasd of relying on imported skills.
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 ...
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Who is serious about On-line Harms?
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Jun 2019 -
Is the internet destroying Western Liberal Democracy?
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Jun 2019 -
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
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 ...
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 ...