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• April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16

  DWP knew of Universal Credit problems in mid-2012 despite insisting all was well

  Documents released after a four-year legal battle show that DWP officials knew of problems with Universal Credit in 2012 despite insisting it was on time and budget

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  Activist Lauri Love faces order to disclose encryption keys

  The UK’s National Crime Agency takes an unusual legal step to force a former university student accused of hacking to disclose encryption keys

• April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16

  BBC outsources finance and accounting technology to IBM

  IBM will take over the BBC’s accounting and payroll services from SopraSteria in November 2016 as part of a five-year contract

• April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16

  Interview: GDS CTO Liam Maxwell and deputy CTO Andy Beale

  Government Digital Service’s Liam Maxwell and Andy Beale talk about the service’s future, its relationship with departments, tactical outsourcing extensions and lessons learned

• April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16

  Digital Leaders Awards open for public vote

  The Digital Leaders 100 is open for a public vote to decide the winners of this year’s awards, including Digital Leader and FinTech Innovation of the Year

• April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16

  Local Digital Coalition to advance local government digital projects

  Organisation takes over from Department for Communities and Local Government’s local digital programme with the aim of delivering joined-up local services

• April 05, 2016 05 Apr'16

  'Citizens will be stripped naked' by Turkey’s data law

  Turkey's data protection law, introduced in March 2016, will make Turkey a near total surveillance state, yet the EU, apparently more concerned about securing Turkey's help in controlling immigration, is turning a blind eye

• April 01, 2016 01 Apr'16

  IT services firm creates 500 jobs in Welsh local authority

  IT services firm CGI creates 500 jobs in south Wales following a £3.2m investment from the Welsh government

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  HMRC reaches agreement with IT suppliers on Aspire contract exit

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) plans on going to market next month for a number of smaller IT services contracts for a phased exit of its Aspire outsourcing deal

• March 29, 2016 29 Mar'16

  Apple vows to raise security as FBI breaks into iPhone

  Apple says it will help law enforcement with investigations, but will increase the security of its products after the FBI broke into an iPhone

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  Government warned of smart meter security threat back in 2012

  The government was warned four years ago that its plans for a nationwide smart meter roll-out represented a “potentially significant” security and privacy threat, Computer Weekly has learned

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  GDS preps guidance for third-party suppliers to deliver 'government as a platform'

  Government Digital Service (GDS) chief insists "pragmatic extensions" to outsourcing contracts implies nothing permanent in push for "government as a platform" (GaaP)

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  Canadian Elizabeth Denham set for the UK's next information commissioner

  Canadian privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham is to become the UK's next information commissioner as government pushes ahead with the snoopers' charter

• March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16

  Gov.uk Verify not secure enough for NHS, says HSCIC

  The government’s Verify identity verification platform isn’t secure enough for the NHS, so Liverpool Clinical Commissioning Group and HSCIC are working to add extra levels of security

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  AWS and Microsoft UK datacentre plans could upset SME-rich Digital Marketplace, Kable warns

  SME G-Cloud providers told to brace themselves for increasing competitive threats from AWS, Microsoft and Oracle once their UK datacentres open

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Southend Council to connect key sites with dark fibre network

  Southend-on-Sea Borough Council selects CityFibre to supply a 50km dark fibre network across 120 public sector sites in the town

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  National Cyber Security Centre to be UK authority on information security

  The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is to be the UK's one-stop authority on infosec, based in London and led by GCHQ's Ciaran Martin

• March 18, 2016 18 Mar'16

  PAC disappointed by Major Projects Authority’s lack of impact

  The Public Accounts Committee is concerned that the newly formed Infrastructure and Projects Authority will weaken project scrutiny and become a “champion for government projects”

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  Which IT services suppliers are European businesses most satisfied with?

  TCS has won top spot for European customer satisfaction for the third year running, according to Whitelane Research

• March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16

  Met Police cancels command and control system contract with Northrop Grumman

  The Met Police command and control system contract with Northrop Grumman has been cancelled as there is “no prospect of a finished product being delivered” in time

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Royal Mail becomes eighth accredited Gov.uk Verify provider

  The Royal Mail is the latest provider to be accredited to support the government’s Gov.uk Verify identity assurance service

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Virgin supplies Ethernet connectivity to Met Office supercomputer

  The Met Office has awarded the contract to provide Ethernet connectivity for its next-generation supercomputer to Virgin Media Business

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  'Complacent' Home Office failed to take responsibility for e-Borders problems

  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) criticises the Home Office for allowing the e-Borders programme to run eight years late and £500m over budget

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  Why are big government IT projects still going wrong?

  The rural payments programme has again been in the spotlight over its failures, continuing the trend of government IT programmes being noted not for their success, but rather the opposite

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  RSAC16: RSA’s Amit Yoran comes out in support of strong encryption

  A policy of weakened encryption would harm US economic interests and undermine those trying to defend digital environments, according to RSA president Amit Yoran

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  GDS hindered delivery of rural payments programme, says PAC

  The rural payments programme was a “Whitehall fiasco” with too much focus on the digital front end, says the public accounts committee (PAC)

• March 02, 2016 02 Mar'16

  AWS cuts cloud data transfer fees for academic and research user groups

  Cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) rolls out discounts in bid to lower the cost barrier to making scientific discoveries

• March 01, 2016 01 Mar'16

  RSAC16: US works on data access agreement with UK

  The US is negotiating with the UK to establish a new framework that will permit UK authorities to access electronic communications directly from US companies

• February 29, 2016 29 Feb'16

  Norfolk County Council on the hunt for ICT boss

  The council is looking for a head of ICT and information management to drive its transformation programme, with a potential salary of up to £115,000

• February 24, 2016 24 Feb'16

  Mapping technology turning Depok in Indonesia into smart city

  Depok in Indonesia is using mapping technology to support its smart city ambitions

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  HR technology heads to cloud in Finland

  Computer Weekly talked to Finnish experts about Finnish enterprises moving to cloud-based HR IT systems

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  HMRC shares details of IT transformation plans

  HM Revenue & Customs has published its IT strategy outlining how it plans to transform its IT estate by taking a platform approach, moving to virtual infrastructure and cloud-based services

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  Interview: Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock on digital government

  The government’s minister for digital reform talks about creating a Digital Leadership Academy, learning valuable lessons, and his love for open data

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  MK:Smart enlists IoT supplier ThingWorx for speedy development

  Milton Keynes smart city project selects ThingWorx to provide a rapid application deployment environment

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  The OpenStack Foundation: Building enterprise trust in open-source clouds

  With HMRC and the European Commission emerging as OpenStack adopters, the OpenStack Foundation's CEO explains how it has set about winning over the enterprise with its open-source cloud platform

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Gov.uk Verify identity system targets 50 government services for April go-live

  Government identity assurance system is set to move from beta to live in April, three years after its original target date

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Beverley Bryant gives details on £1.8bn paperless NHS funding

  Both capital and revenue funding will be made available to NHS organisations, but not through a “traditional” tech fund

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  Bulk data collection unnecessary for surveillance, says cyber expert

  Opting for bulk data collection and other intrusive surveillance overlooks other means available that do not involve collateral damage to businesses and innocent people, says cyber expert

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  Post Office faces group litigation over Horizon IT as subpostmasters fund class action

  Subpostmasters who claim to have been wrongly convicted of fraud take the Post Office to court after getting the funds for a group action

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  PAC criticises Universal Credit programme for lack of transparency

  Public Accounts Committee report slates lack of transparency around Universal Credit and calls for specific plans for the roll out of the digital service to be made public

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  NHS London Procurement Partnership to tender for EPR framework

  The NHS London Procurement Partnership plans clinical digital information systems framework tender to support the "paperless by 2020" agenda

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  TfL shifts corporate archive to AWS public cloud in digital preservation push

  London transport authority has begun moving its first 3TB of corporate archive data to the AWS cloud with the help of Preservica

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  New government plan to support cyber security startups

  Government has announced a £250,000 programme to increase the rate of cyber security startup development in the UK

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Blue light services should share control rooms and IT, Home Office says

  The Home Office plans to make emergency services collaboration mandatory and to join up back-office IT and control rooms

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  Crunch time for Australian CIOs as analytics platforms drive strategy in 2016

  CIOs in Australia and elsewhere will be expected to deploy technologies that promise to help them get more from the information they own

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Digital methods will improve government projects, says civil service chief

  Civil service CEO John Manzoni tells MPs that lessons learned from digital technologies will help improve the track record of all major projects in government

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Bournemouth Council considers bringing IT back in-house

  Bournemouth Council could bring IT and other services back in-house to gain more control over its budget and meet tough cost-cutting targets

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Met Police appoints Angus McCallum as CIO

  BG Group’s Angus McCallum is the Metropolitan Police’s CIO, heading up its Digital Policing arm and serving on the management board

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  NHS 24 admits ‘systematic failure’ of £117m IT project

  NHS 24 has admitted that a “systematic failure around project governance” was the cause of its major IT transformation project disaster