When IT Meets Politics
Recent Posts
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The battle for the heart of the Internet: advertisers versus users
- Winsafe Ltd 21 May 2016 -
Envisioning the (collapse of confidence in) Global Information Society
- Winsafe Ltd 21 May 2016 -
Consumers trust neither Big Data nor Telcos/ISPs
- Winsafe Ltd 14 May 2016
The measures planned for inclusion in the Digital Economy Bill are unlikely to address the growing divide between the advertising-funded business models of global internet service providers and ...
The collapse of confidence in the on-line world predicted in 2001 is now happening. Trust will only be rebuild when the banks, telcos and ISPs work together to take security and privacy seriously ...
The Vodafone Big Data survey reveals a crisis of trust which Internet Service Providers continue to ignore at their peril.
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Help Sadiq Khan deliver a safer and more secure on-line London
- Winsafe Ltd 12 May 2016 -
Has BT made a splash or just restated business as usual?
- Winsafe Ltd 07 May 2016 -
About the blog
21 Apr 2016 -
Towards Gigabit/Full-Fibre Britain by 2025: Ed Vaizey and Sharon White change the game plan
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Apr 2016 -
The battle for London's broadband vote: How are Mayoral candidates responding?
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Apr 2016 -
Government Digital Strategy and universal service obligation offer opportunity for rethink
- Winsafe Ltd 28 Mar 2016 -
The Budget for Broadband was last year: this year it is time to act
- Winsafe Ltd 22 Mar 2016
Why the UK needs the Mayor of London to take a lead in making the UK a safer place to go on-line, with effective reporting, investigation and prosecution based on partnership policing before ...
The Guardian's Nils Pratley called BT's announcement of 6 billion of investment "just coasting": adding EE's investment commitments (to meet the conditions of its spectrum licences) to those of BT ...
Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.
Ed Vaizey's robust comments to the Select Committee on the failure of the Advertising Standards Authority to take action against adverts based on a quality of service received by under 20% of ...
it is unclear whether the best approach is to agree to something (but what?) or to agree to do nothing - and allow market forces to work their magic, now that we have a regulator who appears to ...
Almost the only certainty is that Bazalgette was right but we do not have the equivalent of the Great Stink to concentrate the mind of Parliament. In consequence the future will belong to those ...
Hence the need for the Digital Policy Alliance exercise to look at the communications infrastructure needs of a "smart society" so that those who are "only going to do this once" can install ...
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Salford Council leads the way into a world of smart council estates
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Mar 2016 -
Call for written evidence: Investigatory Powers Bill
- Winsafe Ltd 16 Mar 2016 -
The Chancellor's route to balancing the Budget?
- Winsafe Ltd 15 Mar 2016 -
Ofcom got it right: BT is likely to give better service whole but scared of being broken up
- Winsafe Ltd 14 Mar 2016 -
If Verify is the answer -what was the question? The politics of digital identities revisited
- Winsafe Ltd 10 Mar 2016
The deal with the council estates also needs to be seen as one of a set of complementary initiatives to put Salford at the heart of developing, applying and exploiting smart technologies: including ...
Submissions should address matters contained within the Bill and concentrate on issues where you have a special interest or expertise, and factual information of which you would like the Committee ...
Hopefully this judgement will open the floodgates and help bring about tax parity between the on-line and off-line worlds as well as between multi-national indigenous players. If so, we may learn ...
get the London Mayoral candidates on board, because fibre to the flat will do more to help improve inner city life chances than almost any of the policies currently being touted. Meanwhile fibre to ...
It is not enough to say that the time has come to bury the corpse of Verify and look beyond OIX and eIDAS to what is happening in the "real" world. There is a need for to review what should and ...