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• April 23, 2021 23 Apr'21

  London mayoral candidates debate tech

  The four mayoral candidates have set out their plans for the tech sector, including creating skills academies, harnessing kinetic energy, creating a London passport and setting up new tech hubs, but Tech London Advocates founder Russ Shaw says they ...

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  GCHQ: Cyber investment a guarantor of UK’s global status

  GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming sets out a vision for the UK’s cyber security future

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Department for Education publishes digital strategy

  The department's digital and technology function wants to become a leader in the field, invest in its own platforms and manage its legacy technologies

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  CIO interview: Richard Corbridge, Boots

  Boots has been hugely successful in its transition to e-commerce and the Covid-19 pandemic has seen several digital initiatives spun up to continue offering services to customers

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Drax partners with Solace to manage biomass supply chain

  Event-based IT architecture helps energy provider optimise its biomass supply chain and drive greater efficiencies, but questions remain about the fundamental sustainability of biomass as an alternative to coal

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Transatlantic relationship strengthens Sweden’s startup sustainability

  Nordic startup network is taking lessons from Canada in getting women into the IT industry

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  BBC appoints new digital and technology leaders

  BBC splits former chief technology and product officer role into two, with Just Eat executive Storm Fagan to join in September

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  SAP users identify data skills shortage as importance of analytics spikes

  Research from the SAP UK & Ireland User Group has demonstrated a data skills dearth among users and a delay in using the SAP Hana in-memory database until full S/4 Hana ERP implementations

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  London tech manifesto calls on next mayor to support tech industry

  The London tech manifesto, put together by several tech organisations, calls on the city’s next mayor to support tech companies, increase digital skills investment and tackle the lack of diversity in the sector

• April 15, 2021 15 Apr'21

  Uber ordered to reinstate six drivers fired by automated process

  A default judgment handed down by Dutch court has ordered Uber to reinstate six drivers with compensation following unevidenced accusations of fraud and automated firing via algorithm

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  Remote workers largely supportive of a UK right to disconnect

  The introduction of a “right to disconnect” in the UK is popular among workers and has backing from trade unions

• April 13, 2021 13 Apr'21

  Civil Service Data Challenge aims to improve use of data

  Business and government have partnered to launch a Dragon’s Den-style competition to encourage civil servants to come up with ideas on how to improve the use of data

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  CDO summer school plots step change for data leaders

  The summer school for chief data officers, run by Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, promises data leaders a curriculum to match the elevated salience of the CDO role

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  IR35 reforms: MPs call on government to clean up UK’s ‘wild west’ contracting labour supply chain

  A 200-strong group of MPs is calling for urgent action from the government to protect contractors from the dubious practices of non-compliant umbrella companies and badly behaved employment agencies just days after private sector IR35 reforms came ...

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Deliveroo riders strike over pay and work conditions

  Riders across the country are demanding fair pay, safety protections and basic workers’ rights pay on Deliveroo’s first day of trading as a public company

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Irish employees’ ‘right to disconnect’ enshrined in code of practice

  A code of practice giving employees the ‘right to disconnect’ from work and not engage in electronic communications outside of their normal hours has come into effect in Ireland

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  CDDO will assess delivery of government digital projects

  Government Digital Service boss Tom Read and the government’s Central Digital and Data Office executive director Joanna Davinson reveal next steps for digital, data and technology in government

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  IR35 reforms: Private sector start date prompts mixed picture of predictions for contracting market

  The IR35 tax avoidance reforms take hold in the private sector, prompting a mixed picture of predictions from stakeholders about what the future holds for contractors in the UK

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Cyber Security Council to champion UK security pros

  A new cyber security professional body has launched with the aim of developing and promoting UK cyber security excellence globally and growing the skills base

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Strong company culture the basis of a successful hybrid work environment

  Study highlights how post-Covid working dynamics increase importance of communicative leadership with an inclusive organisational culture most important once logistics and technology are addressed

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Asda bags ex-Marks and Spencer CIO

  Carl Dawson, who has been CIO at department store M&S for six years, is leaving the retailer to become CIO at Asda

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Surveillance expert ‘unfairly’ refused job at intelligence regulator after MI5 intervened

  The Home Office unfairly refused Eric Kind, a specialist in criminal justice and UK surveillance law, clearance for a job at an intelligence watchdog after MI5 claimed he was “insufficiently deferential”

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Sarah Wilkinson resigns as NHS Digital CEO

  After four years at the helm of NHS Digital, CEO Sarah Wilkinson will leave in the summer of 2021, and the organisation is looking for an interim replacement

• March 26, 2021 26 Mar'21

  Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences combines AI and practice

  University ensures cooperation between scientists and industry when developing artificial intelligence

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  TUC warns of gaps in British law over use of AI at work

  The TUC has published a report warning of AI-powered discrimination against working people enabled by gaps in existing British employment law

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  Deliveroo faces pushback from investors and riders ahead of IPO

  Two of the UK’s largest fund managers have said they will not buy shares in Deliveroo because of concerns over workers’ rights

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  UK faces significant cyber talent shortfall

  Cyber security sector is struggling to attract the talented workforce it needs

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Generation Z majority left cold by data literacy

  Data literacy is a term with little currency among 16 to 21-year-olds, according to research commissioned by analytics database company Exasol, but more than half of those surveyed think data skills should be more prominent in education

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  IR35 reforms: Confusion over who pays employers’ NI leaves IT contractors out of pocket

  Litigators are circling as thousands of contractors realise that the 2017 roll-out of IR35 reforms to the public sector may have resulted in unlawful tax deductions – and the private sector could be next

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Young people don’t feel they have advanced digital skills for work

  Young people know how important digital skills are, but don’t think they have the necessary level of skill for the workplace, according to the Learning and Work Institute

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  CIO interview: Juliette Atkinson, IT director, Bradford University

  Bradford University’s IT director took a different route than most to get into IT leadership

• March 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  Reshaping the women-in-tech debate in Denmark, from the top down

  Tech Nordic Advocates adopts a different approach to closing the gap between women and men in the Danish tech startup sector

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Uber classifies drivers as workers after Supreme Court ruling

  Ride-hailing firm will pay its UK drivers minimum wage following court ruling, but has diverged from the court’s interpretation that drivers should be paid from when they log in, not just when passengers are on board

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Children’s learning held back by digital schooling, NAO report finds

  Children’s socio-economic status has affected their experiences with digital learning, and most teachers consider their pupils to be, on average, three months behind where they would be expected to be

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Insurers unable to fill a quarter of tech roles

  Insurance companies need to fill tech skills gaps if they are going to prosper in the age of insurtech

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Uber and Ola ordered to hand over more data to drivers

  A Dutch court has rejected Uber and Ola’s claims that drivers collectively taking action to access their data amounts to an abuse of their individual data access rights, laying the ground for drivers to form their own union-controlled data trust

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Banks still lack tech skills at the top

  Banks have made progress in adding IT knowledge in their boardrooms, but they need more as digital transformation accelerates

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: IPSE warns of UK contracting talent exodus unless start date delayed

  Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed research into what contractors plan to do once the IR35 reforms come into play highlights growing risk of talent shortages

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: IT contractors ‘growing reluctant’ to work for ‘blanket banning’ firms

  IT-focused staffing company Ellis Recruitment Group shares its take on how the contracting market is responding to the private sector firms enforcing blanket bans

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  Web founder calls for ubiquitous, safe internet access for young people

  Internet access has a direct correlation to GDP. On the 32nd birthday of the world wide web, its founder calls for improvements to safe access

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  UK technology business created every 30 minutes in 2020

  New figures on UK business creation show surge in entrepreneurs setting up technology businesses during 2020, while the sector’s hiring efforts climb back to pre-pandemic levels

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Scotland launches digital strategy

  Updated strategy aims to equip Scotland for technological transformation post-coronavirus and focuses on building an ethical digital nation

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  UK launches fellowship to attract tech talent to government

  Programme jointly run by Number 10 and Government Digital Service will see 10 leaders enlisted to address key challenges in the public sector

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  SAS launches free data skills programme for job seekers

  Pro bono data skills programme, in tandem with job placement agencies, has the aim of training 10,000 people

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  Australia’s job market to shrink 11% with automation

  Those who perform highly structured administrative jobs in finance, accounting and procurement are most at risk as automation continues to reshape Australia’s workforce

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  Significant jump in number of hackers reporting vulnerabilities to companies

  Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of hackers reporting security vulnerabilities and bugs to enterprises has increased by nearly two-thirds

• March 09, 2021 09 Mar'21

  DevOps pros get salary boost in spite of Covid squeeze

  Although many businesses have tightened spending, digitisation is driving up salaries among DevOps professionals

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Nordic innovators change emphasis on gender equality in society

  Female technology innovators in the Nordics take a different approach to trying to improve opportunities for women

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Progress towards gender equality in cyber still slow

  The cyber security sector is making painfully slow progress towards gender equality, according to a report

• March 03, 2021 03 Mar'21

  Glitch signs collective bargaining agreement with unionised workers

  US software startup’s ‘milestone’ agreement with employees focuses on job security and labour rights rather than salaries and benefits