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IT for charity organisations

• August 22, 2017 22 Aug'17

  Blockchain skills in high demand and jobs being swept up quickly

  Job vacancies for people with blockchain skills are being filled in just seven days, on average, once they are advertised online

• August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17

  World's largest’ data center planned in Norway

  Norway will soon have the biggest datacenter in the world which will harness the countries rich natural resources

• August 14, 2017 14 Aug'17

  CIO interview: Mike Proudlock, interim head of IT, The Royal College of Surgeons

  The Royal College of Surgeons has started a cloud-centric transformation programme to ensure the organisation is fit for the working challenges of the 21st century

• August 09, 2017 09 Aug'17

  Over 40% of IT professionals want another general election this year

  A large proportion of IT workers in the UK want another general election this year in the hope it will stave off a hard brexit

• August 09, 2017 09 Aug'17

  Nordic countries top digital nations ranking, but risk stalling

  Nordic countries are leaders when it comes to digitisation – but they must continue to innovate to retain their position

• August 08, 2017 08 Aug'17

  CIO interview: David Ivell, CIO, The Prince’s Trust

  Youth charity is turning to digital means to engage with young people outside its usual reach

• July 19, 2017 19 Jul'17

  Charity swaps SAN for Hypergrid hyper-converged to save £1m

  Tearfund saves £950,000 by deploying Hypergrid hyper-converged in place of HP servers and SAN, cutting costs on space, power, staff and hardware, and avoiding VMware

• June 21, 2017 21 Jun'17

  The human apprentices behind robotic automation

  IT apprentices are helping large businesses transform their back-office processes through software robots

• June 19, 2017 19 Jun'17

  South African game reserve goes digital to save the rhino

  Dimension Data and Cisco have teamed up to protect rhinos living on a private game reserve in South Africa with the latest networking and IoT sensor technology

• June 15, 2017 15 Jun'17

  Finnish mobile operators opt-out from free EU roaming

  Finnish mobile operators have been exempted from new European Union data roaming rules for now

• May 10, 2017 10 May'17

  Nordic region competes for datacentre dominance

  The Nordic region is an attractive region for datacentres as demand for cloud services in the area grows

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Highly skilled professionals at risk of being replaced by computers

  Highly skilled jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence by 2022, says Gartner

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Large UK businesses increasingly want CEOs to have IT background

  More large businesses in the UK want a CEO that has a good understanding of IT

• May 03, 2017 03 May'17

  Mayor of London seeks chief digital officer

  Capital’s first-ever chief digital officer will oversee the digital transformation of public services across London

• May 02, 2017 02 May'17

  IT outsourcing going strong in the Nordics

  IT outsourcing is popular among companies in the Nordic region, but the market is changing

• April 28, 2017 28 Apr'17

  CIO interview: Mark Foulsham, chief digital officer, Scope

  The charity’s chief digital officer is implementing a three-stage plan to transform the organisation through building internal capabilities and technology stack, as well as creating a digital framework

• April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17

  Kone brings elevator maintenance online with IBM Watson and Salesforce

  Lift manufacturer is using sensors and artificial intelligence to support its maintenance staff

• April 11, 2017 11 Apr'17

  ‘Can do’ attitude of DevOps teams is driving cloud-first strategies

  The cloud-first strategies of businesses across sectors are maturing, with DevOps teams playing a leading role

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Telenor launches IoT pilot in Norway

  Telenor is opening up its IoT infrastructure in Norway to encourage students and entrepreneurs to develop IoT products and services

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  Interview: F-Secure’s Mikko Hyppönen on the Nordics, Russia and the internet of insecure things

  Computer Weekly sat down with Finnish cyber security expert Mikko Hyppönen to talk about security in the Nordics, Russia and the trouble with connected devices

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Thorn CEO on using machine learning and tech partnerships to tackle online child sex abuse

  The CEO of US-based no-profit Thorn explains how cross-industry collaboration and machine learning is helping her organisation stay one step ahead of online child sex abusers

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Are ethical questions holding back AI in France?

  France has been slow to create a strategy around the use of artificial intelligence, partly due to questions around ethics

• March 28, 2017 28 Mar'17

  Threats grow in Saudi Arabia’s cyber sector

  Saudi Arabia's wealth makes it an attractive target for cyber criminals, but what have been the recent trends in cyber crime?

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  3D printing gets serious in the Netherlands

  3D projects abound in the Netherlands, with the technology being applied to canal bridges, bicycles, ship components and buildings

• February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

  HPE services and CSC to become DXC Technology

  The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions

• February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

  Middle East and North Africa public cloud spend to hit $2bn by 2020

  Middle East-based organisations are turning to public cloud services, with software as a service driving a major year-on-year spending increase

• January 29, 2017 29 Jan'17

  Artificial intelligence will increase productivity by sharpening human mind

  The combination of AI and humans will triple productivity if businesses get the balance right for different roles

• January 27, 2017 27 Jan'17

  #techmums uses corporate partnerships to reach a million mums by 2020

  Not-for-profit #techmums hopes to give technology skills to one million mothers by 2020 through partnerships with corporate firms

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Mixed feelings on Australian enterprise app market

  The enterprise mobile app development market is attracting big money despite a lack of corporate appetite

• January 15, 2017 15 Jan'17

  The evolution of smart Dubai

  Aisha Bin Bishr, director general at Smart Dubai Office, discusses how Dubai is evolving as a smart city with the support of local telecoms provider Du.

• January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17

  Tech focus helps Singapore go second in globalisation index

  Singapore is the second most globalised economy in the world and its IT infrastructure is critical to this achievement

• January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17

  Customer-first approach will make 2017 a challenge for Dutch CIOs

  CIOs in the Netherlands could see their strategies lead to thousands of jobs being cut as businesses automate

• December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: Nordic organisations to spend more on cloud services

  The adoption of cloud computing in its many guises will be a top priority in the Nordic region in 2017

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017

  The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  UK almost bottom of OECD pile for ICT investment

  The UK ranks low in terms of how much it invests in the ICT infrastructure as a proportion of GDP

• November 03, 2016 03 Nov'16

  Climate hackathon aims to use tech to save the planet

  London joins cities around the world to seek technology solutions to tackle climate change and help the environment

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Australia and New Zealand IT pros on bigger salaries than UK equivalents

  Aussie IT pros are better rewarded than their counterparts in the UK, according to surveys

• October 10, 2016 10 Oct'16

  More virtualisation to come in mature Australian market

  Australia has been hailed as a rapidly growing market for mobile virtualisation

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Demand rises for low-cost flash storage across Australia

  Flash storage gains popularity in Australia, as smaller organisations are attracted by lower prices and higher capacity

• October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16

  Government invests £220m in tech projects to help "future-proof" post-Brexit economy

  Chancellor Philip Hammond highlights the role high-tech industries have to play in safe-guarding the post-Brexit economy

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  NGOs challenge UK and US mass surveillance in human rights court

  Privacy International, Liberty and the American Civil Liberties Union are among 10 human rights groups backing a landmark challenge to mass surveillance in the European Court of Human Rights

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Westpac bank launches Databank data protection service

  Australia's Westpac bank is offering organisations that share customer data a service that it says securely locks down personal information

• August 12, 2016 12 Aug'16

  Care charity Avante enhances unified communications capabilities with 3CX

  Kent-based residential care charity Avante Care and Support installed an IP PBX to manage telephony across multiple sites and a mobile workforce

• August 09, 2016 09 Aug'16

  PwC Australia uses gamification to teach cyber security lessons

  With the number of cyber incidents identified by Australian organisations more than doubling in the past year, PwC is using an online game to give enterprises first-hand experience of what it means to face a cyber attack

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  IBM sets up security centre in Canberra

  IBM leads the charge as large private businesses invest heavily in security resources across Australia in an attempt to close the security gap

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  The challenges facing social tech and what will tackle them

  As part of the Cast launch event, government, corporate and social tech representatives discussed some of the challenges facing social tech and how we can grow tech for good initiatives

• June 20, 2016 20 Jun'16

  Lower average cost of Australian data breaches is not a sign of comfort

  The average cost of a data breach to Australian organisations dropped in 2015, according to research

• June 17, 2016 17 Jun'16

  Hays Recruitment service desk project is all gain and no pain

  The firm was attracted by the many benefits of a cloud-based service desk, but chief among them was the low risk involved in implementation

• June 08, 2016 08 Jun'16

  Citrix expands in Middle East with first Saudi Arabia office

  Citrix is increasing its presence in the Middle East, opening its first office in Saudi Arabia with plans to expand into Qatar and Egypt