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IT efficiency and sustainability

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Twelve million jobs to be lost to automation in Europe by 2040

  Millions of current jobs in Europe will be carried out by robots as software robots automate processes

• January 17, 2022 17 Jan'22

  Automation and interoperability key to UK’s digital energy plans

  Energy Digitalisation Taskforce recommends that policy-makers and regulators drive open standards across the energy sector

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  M1 rolls out voice bot for customer hotlines

  The Singapore telco has rolled out a voice bot for a number of customer hotlines to improve customer experience and the productivity of call agents

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  RBL Bank taps Google Cloud to drive digital agenda

  The private lender will tap Google Cloud to power its customer acquisition engine and improve customer data management and analytics, among other areas

• January 11, 2022 11 Jan'22

  Cyber security failure one of biggest risks facing countries and businesses, warns WEF

  Cyber risks are among the top five risks facing organisations and governments over the next two to five years. Digital inequality and the over-crowding of space with communication satellites present further risks 

• December 30, 2021 30 Dec'21

  Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2021

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2021

• December 29, 2021 29 Dec'21

  Top 10 Nordic IT stories of 2021

  Computer Weekly selects some of the biggest Nordic tech stories of 2021

• December 24, 2021 24 Dec'21

  Top 10 Benelux stories of 2021

  Computer Weekly looks at the top IT stories from the Benelux region in the past year

• December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21

  Top 10 Middle East IT stories of 2021

  The Middle East is about more than oil these days, with advanced technology industries developing across the region. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Middle East IT stories of 2021

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Finnish government launches digital economy transformation projects

  The Finnish government launches two transformation projects as part of the country’s mission to pioneer a digital economy

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Tokopedia ups ante on observability capabilities

  Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has consolidated its observability capabilities on a single cloud-based platform, enabling it to improve customer service and identify infrastructure issues

• December 14, 2021 14 Dec'21

  Joint committee publishes report on improving Online Safety Bill

  MPs and peers release report on Online Safety Bill following five-month inquiry into the draft legislation and make a number of recommendations on how it can be improved to deal with harmful content and abuse on the internet

• December 13, 2021 13 Dec'21

  Industry group aims to tackle energy-efficient software development

  How many processor cycles does an algorithm use? Can it use less and, if so, how will this reduce overall energy usage and greenhouse emissions?

• December 08, 2021 08 Dec'21

  CIO interview: Nicola Wadham, Financial Ombudsman Service

  CIO Nicola Wadham brings Computer Weekly up to speed on the Financial Ombudsman Service’s IT challenges and successes

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  APAC banks gear up on cloud, but challenges remain

  Public cloud spending by financial institutions in the region is rising even as they grapple with legacy IT challenges and cost concerns

• December 05, 2021 05 Dec'21

  Australia’s NSW to build A$40m digital twin

  The spatial digital twin brings together government data sources to provide insights for urban planners and residents to support decision-making and see into the future

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  Second Mizuho executive quits after IT problems

  IT failures have forced the CEO of Japanese financial services group to step down

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  UK ‘impact startups’ raise £2bn in 2021

  Impact startups in the UK have raised record levels of investment this year, with most of the capital raised going to climate tech firms

• November 17, 2021 17 Nov'21

  GovTech to enhance Government on Commercial Cloud

  GCC 2.0 will include improvements in user onboarding and provide single credential access to public cloud services and engineering tools, among other areas

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Video firm gets Qumulo scale-out NAS and super-fine metrics

  Cognacq-Jay Image shunned Scality and Isilon to get Qumulo scale-out NAS for extremely elastic video workloads and built fine-grained metrics to troubleshoot complex processes

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: APAC enterprises invest in digital future

  Nearly two-thirds of enterprises in Asia-Pacific plan to increase their IT budgets next year in areas such as cloud computing and cyber security to secure their digital future

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Green energy Cray supercomputer to power weather predictions

  HPE is building a supercomputer that will be shared by four European meteorological services

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  Blockchain technology will help banks will cut cross-border payment costs by $10bn in 2030

  The use of blockchain technology in cross-border payments will save global banks $10bn in 2030, according to research

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  Sustainability: IT isn’t working

  The need to sell more stuff does not fit in with the IT industry’s ambitions to go greener and become more sustainable

• November 07, 2021 07 Nov'21

  Businesses failing to cut carbon footprint of ‘power-hungry’ technology

  Tackling the power consumption of datacentres features low on the list of tech leaders’ priorities, but pressures to change are growing

• November 05, 2021 05 Nov'21

  Digital secretary calls for permanent online safety committee

  Digital secretary commits to establishing ongoing oversight of the Online Safety Bill and its implementation, and suggests the grace period on criminal liability for tech company execs should be shortened from two years to a maximum of six months ...

• November 03, 2021 03 Nov'21

  Facebook self-imposes facial recognition moratorium

  Facebook and Meta have committed to halting their use of facial recognition technology and deleting the biometric data of more than a billion people by the end of 2021, but will retain the underlying algorithms and software for potential use in ...

• November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

  Electronic waste excluded from COP26 agenda

  Data sanitation industry group calls on UK government to add electronic waste to the climate summit’s agenda

• November 02, 2021 02 Nov'21

  Dell rolls out financing arm in Singapore

  Dell Financial Services will offer flexible and consumption-based payment options in local and regional markets as more enterprises consume and operate IT infrastructure via an as-a-service model

• November 01, 2021 01 Nov'21

  5G fundamental to Europe achieving climate targets

  Europe-wide analysis from leading comms tech firm reveals next-generation network-enabled solutions could reduce EU CO2 emissions by 15% by 2030

• October 28, 2021 28 Oct'21

  City of Edinburgh Council signs up CGI to implement smart city plans

  Five-year contract to support Scottish capital’s transformation into a smart city includes data insights, processes and tools to achieve transformational change and deliver high-quality services to citizens

• October 27, 2021 27 Oct'21

  Russian IT market growing steadily after pandemic

  Russia’s enterprise IT sector is recovering steadily after a slowdown caused by Covid-19

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  COP26: Is the tech sector ready to rise to climate challenge?

  There is growing recognition that the tech sector produces mountains of e-waste and consumes significant amounts of energy and natural resources

• October 25, 2021 25 Oct'21

  Singapore-developed chatbot to provide genetic counselling

  National University Cancer Institute, Singapore’s chatbot will kickstart the counselling process for patients who have a higher risk of contracting hereditary breast and ovarian cancer

• October 22, 2021 22 Oct'21

  MEPs vote to expand Europol data mandate

  The European Parliament has voted in favour of expanding Europol’s mandate to process data and develop AI tools, but critics claim it contradicts a previous vote which opposed using new technologies to predict crime

• October 20, 2021 20 Oct'21

  American Express announces global hybrid working model

  US credit card giant is latest corporate to formalise hybrid working following the success of informal policies introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  HPE’s GreenLake strategy pays off in APAC

  HPE’s transition to an as-a-service company is paying off in Asia-Pacific where it witnessed one of the strongest quarters, thanks in part to rising demand for services

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  Generation Novel hybrid workers bring new demands and risks

  Aruba survey warns business leaders that they must strike a balance between flexibility and security to address risky behaviours and evolving expectations of today’s tech-savvy workforce

• October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21

  CIO interview: Lisa Heneghan, chief digital officer, KPMG

  KPMG UK’s digital leader says that in her 25-year career she has never known a more exciting time to work in IT

• October 04, 2021 04 Oct'21

  How GYG Singapore moved to paperless contracts

  The Singapore franchisee of Mexican cuisine specialist Guzman y Gomez has turned to electronic agreements and digital signatures to ease the administrative burden on its HR team

• October 01, 2021 01 Oct'21

  Met Police purchase new retrospective facial-recognition system

  Retrospective facial-recognition software purchased for £3m by the Met Police will be deployed in coming months amid continuing controversy around the use of biometric technologies by law enforcement bodies

• September 28, 2021 28 Sep'21

  APAC IT spending to grow by 9.3% in 2021

  Organisations across the region will spend more on technologies such as AI and IoT this year, as part of their long-term investment plans to improve operational efficiency and customer service

• September 24, 2021 24 Sep'21

  London publishes guidelines for ethical use of smart city tech

  Latest draft of the ‘Emerging Technology Charter for London’ encourages local authorities, public services and technology companies to improve how they implement technology in the capital

• September 22, 2021 22 Sep'21

  AI cannot be regulated by technical measures alone

  The regulation of artificial intelligence must address the power of tech companies, as technical measures alone will not be enough to prevent the harms caused by AI-driven technologies, says report

• September 20, 2021 20 Sep'21

  ASEAN organisations face observability gap

  Organisations in Southeast Asia are grappling with a hodgepodge of observability tools and have some way to go before they can achieve full visibility over their technology stacks

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  UN human rights chief calls for moratorium on AI technologies

  High commissioner’s call for a moratorium on the use of AI systems that pose a serious risk to human rights is accompanied by a UN report on the negative human rights impacts associated with the technology

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Tech Nation announces second cohort for Net Zero accelerator

  The Net Zero programme from Tech Nation aims to help tech startups and scaleups realise their potential to reduce global emissions

• September 09, 2021 09 Sep'21

  Tech R&D gets cash boost through £113m Future Leaders Fellowships

  Projects including a four-legged, multi-terrain robotic walker, ‘biogeobatteries’ and organic smartphone materials are among 97 projects to receive funding

• September 06, 2021 06 Sep'21

  Saudi tourism development fund goes cloud-first with Oracle

  $4bn fund will be used to invest in developing Saudi Arabia’s tourism industry as the country reduces its economic reliance on oil and gas

• September 06, 2021 06 Sep'21

  Room for improvement in UK right to repair laws

  The UK government introduced right to repair legislation earlier in 2021 to combat the growing issue of electronic waste, but data sanitisation firm Blancco says that while it’s a step in the right direction, there is definitely scope for improvement