When IT Meets Politics
Recent Posts
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Is the Internet leading us back to 1930s protectionism?
- Winsafe Ltd 25 Jan 2017 -
NAO queries HMRC plans to relocate people instead of using technology
- Winsafe Ltd 10 Jan 2017 -
2017 - When Brexit from "Ever Closer Union" morphed into creating a Confederation.
- Winsafe Ltd 01 Jan 2017
The mass market adoption of the Internet is now leading to 1930s protectionism not internationalisation
HMRC plans to relocate 38,000 people to city centres instead of using on-line networking
How Brexit turned onto Flexit as the negotiating position of the Commission was bypassed by reality
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The first NCSC enquiry (Nativity Child Safety Consequences)
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Dec 2016 -
Lost in the global cesspit of Big Data
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Dec 2016 -
Flexit and/or Bre-entry not Brexit versus Remoan
- Winsafe Ltd 11 Dec 2016 -
MPs understand IT better than IT Professional understand politics
- Winsafe Ltd 06 Dec 2016 -
Not quite "bye bye to business rates for broadband" ... yet
- Winsafe Ltd 24 Nov 2016 -
Bye bye business rates on full fibre broadband
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Nov 2016 -
Homebuilders Federation opposes fibre to the home policy
- Winsafe Ltd 03 Nov 2016
Have an off-line Christmas and a thoughtful New Year
Big Data analytics are more likely to produce expensive slurry than strategic insights
We must unpack meaningless slogan like digital single market or freedom of movement into what we want to keep and what we want to turn into reality.
The Tech Community needs to take politics seriously before it is too late
The broadband business rates "holiday" does not, yet, fully address the problem.
The ending of business rates on full fibre broadband has fired the start gun for an explosion of activity. But there is much more to do.
The Home Builders Federation opposes Ashford Borough Council's fibre to the home policy because it goes further than their deal with BT for free fibre.
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Brexit adds urgency to sorting UK skills supply
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Oct 2016 -
Theresa May has embraced Gigabit Britain. How will her ministers ensure delivery?
- Winsafe Ltd 13 Oct 2016 -
Broadband at the Party Conferences: why it matters
- Winsafe Ltd 27 Sep 2016 -
The 50% e-Crime rise and Yahoo revelations show how right the CMS Select Committee was
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Sep 2016 -
What pool of top cybersecurity talent? It does not exist.
- Winsafe Ltd 12 Sep 2016
Chief Executives should back the sector skills partnerships to reform the UK apprenticeship system not just resist Brexit so they can continue to import EU talent
When the Prime Minister used her closing conference speech to say it is "just not right" that "half of people living in rural areas, and so many small businesses, can't get a decent broadband ...
Without a surge of investment in "future ready" fibre and wireless networks next spring, the UK will fall behind France, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Spain, let alone Scandinavia and the Pacific Rim ...
In July we learned that 10% of the UK population have been the victims of e-Crime - albeit nearly always reimbursed, having "only" suffered the hassle of a refused card and a couple of days ...
I was struck by a recent bleat that Whitehall is not "cool" enough to attract top cybersecurity talent. There is no pool of "top cyber security talent". There are ten vacancies for every candidate. ...