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• January 05, 2016 05 Jan'16

  Surveillance tribunal refers child privacy claim to information commissioner

  The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has referred a complaint to the UK information commissioner that the US National Security Agency is intercepting children's internet activities

• January 04, 2016 04 Jan'16

  IT security predictions for Australian organisations in 2016

  What IT security challenges should Australian organisations expect in the new year?

• January 04, 2016 04 Jan'16

  GP Extraction Service ‘another Whitehall failure’, says PAC

  Public Accounts Committee slams GP Extraction Service and its supplier, Atos, in a new report on the long-delayed project

• January 04, 2016 04 Jan'16

  Surrey County Council pushes for digital to improve services for residents

  Local authority is pushing open data, linking up different services and installing movement sensors in extra care housing

• December 31, 2015 31 Dec'15

  Top 10 internet of things stories of 2015

  2015 was the year the internet of things began to move from theory to widespread practice, and the fledgling industry shook off the millstone of connected kitchen appliances

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  Government calls on industry to develop UK digital strategy

  The government turns to the public and industry for ideas on how to push forward the UK’s digital transformation

• December 24, 2015 24 Dec'15

  Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2015

  From the unexpected news that NHS England’s digital chief Tim Kelsey is leaving the NHS to an unsurprising further delay of Care.data and Epic problems at Cambridge University Hospital, NHS technology has had a turbulent year

• December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15

  Top 10 APAC IT stories of 2015

  The top 10 Computer Weekly articles about enterprise IT in the Asean and ANZ regions

• December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15

  Top 10 CIO interviews of 2015

  The IT leaders in the UK and across Europe who shared their strategies and plans with Computer Weekly in 2015

• December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15

  Dorset County Council rejects outsourcing

  Council decides against outsourcing back-office services, including IT, due to a lack of flexibility

• December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15

  Top 10 public sector IT stories of 2015

  In the year the UK public voted for another five years of Tory government and Mike Bracken left the Government Digital Service (GDS), public sector IT had a turbulent ride

• December 21, 2015 21 Dec'15

  Court rules Cornwall Council can terminate BT outsourcing deal

  Cornwall Council gets the green light from the High Court to end its £160m outsourcing deal with BT and plans to give termination notice before Christmas

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Australian corporate counsel under cyber attack but no plans to increase security spend

  Australia’s corporate counsel are suffering a high rate of data breaches compared to many regions, but do not plan to spend more on preventative security

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  DWP IP addresses ended up in hands of Daesh, hackers claim

  A number of social media accounts owned by jihadist militant group have been linked to IP addresses previously owned by the UK government

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  National security ‘not affected’ by failed e-Borders programme, says Home Office

  Despite the key Warnings Index system suffering an average of two high-priority incidents a week – such as a system component not being available – Home Office officials deny it causes risk to national security

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Deal on EU data protection is close

  A deal to standardise data protection rules across the EU could be imminent after compromises were made

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Will more business mean more IT adoption in post-election Myanmar?

  Myanmar is set for huge economic, social and cultural changes after the recent general election and IT has a key role to play

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  HMRC launches digital personal tax accounts

  HM Revenue & Customs has gone live with online personal tax accounts and has published a detailed plan on how to “make tax digital”

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Somerset plans early exit from Southwest One deal

  Somerset County Council plans to pursue an early exit from its Southwest One contract and bring services back in-house in 12 months

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  GP patients in Wales will get access to medical records by 2017

  The Welsh government publishes a five-year digital health and care strategy, which includes a citizens’ portal for patients to access their GP records

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  UK hosts international cyber attack response test

  The UK has hosted an exercise to test how investigators and prosecutors across Europe and the US would work together in the event of a complex international cyber criminal incident

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Experian chooses UK authentication startup for Gov.UK Verify

  To ensure that UK citizens using Gov.UK Verify have secure access to their online accounts, Experian is using distributed cryptography technology from MIRACL

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  EE and Motorola confirmed as ESN suppliers by Home Office

  EE and Motorola have been formally selected to provide a resilient national 4G network for the UK’s ambulance, fire and police services

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  100Gbps network powers petabyte research cloud at Australia’s Monash University

  Australian university implements powerful network to support data hungry research cloud.

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  100Gbps network powers petabyte research cloud at Australia’s Monash University

  Australian university implements powerful network to support data hungry research cloud.

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Rural payments digital service like watching a Greek tragedy unfold, say MPs

  Serious culture clash and dysfunctional leadership were at the core of the rural payments digital service problems, the Public Accounts Committee heard

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Russian big data in early stages

  The use of big data technologies in Russia is still embryonic and the economic slowdown is stalling developments

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  100Gbps network powers petabyte research cloud at Australia’s Monash University

  Australian university implements powerful network to support data-hungry research cloud

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Exeter and Devon councils launch smart transport project

  Exeter and Devon councils have launched a project to use real-time traffic and weather sensor data to understand what affects people’s travel behaviour

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  CCGs collaborate to submit digital plans to NHS England

  A large number of clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have decided to work together on their digital roadmaps for a paper-free NHS

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Nordic startups take on the enterprise mobile app market

  Nordic startups are targeting the mobile market with software to help customers create apps as demand from businesses in their home region and beyond grows

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Australian university launches cyber security master's degree

  The University of New South Wales in Canberra has launched a master's course in cyber security, strategy and diplomacy

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Experts give evidence on draft Investigatory Powers Bill

  The Joint Committee on the Draft Investigatory Powers Bill and the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee hear testimony from experts

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Scottish Government gets electronic voting system for local elections

  The contract to design the electronic vote counting system for the 2017 local elections in Scotland has been awarded to CGI

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Martha Lane Fox calls on NHS to offer free Wi-Fi and build digital skills

  Martha Lane Fox wants the NHS to offer free Wi-Fi across the NHS estate, build digital skills and increase the number of patients using online services

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  National roll-out of Universal Credit digital service to begin in May 2016

  The Universal Credit digital service will be rolled out to five job centres a month from May 2016, says the Department for Work and Pensions

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Airwave makes U-turn on emergency network injunction

  The UK emergency network operator decides to drop an injunction preventing the Home Office from finding a cheaper operator

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Government digital skills gap concerning, says NAO

  Funding and pay is one of the biggest challenges to getting the right capabilities in place, an NAO survey has found

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Cyber attacks an increasing concern for Asean countries

  Organisations in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are increasingly the targets for cyber criminals, according to a report focused on the region

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Obama hints at tougher stance on encryption

  The White House has begun raising concerns with tech firms over terrorists' use of encryption and social media as president Obama signals he plans to urge tech firms to help

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Australia launches plan to reduce reliance on natural resources

  The Australian government has announced plans to reduce its dependency on industries that rely on natural resources and increase its activities in areas such as IT

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Mike Bracken sets up consultancy with ex-GDS colleagues

  Ex-GDS head Mike Bracken, along with three former GDS staff, has launched a consultancy to help foreign governments do digital transformation

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Internet of things will be one of the Asean IT highlights in 2016

  IoT investments will be one of the major trends in Asean economies throughout 2016, according to predictions from Frost & Sullivan.

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  India’s HCL opens Estonian operation to support Nordic customers

  HCL Technologies opens an Estonian delivery centre which will support customers across Europe, including those in the Nordic region

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Europe's CIOs must raise their game in testing software quality

  CIOs across Europe have more work to do to ensure the structural quality of software is sound as IT becomes more important to organisations across different sectors

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  UK citizen challenges police and ICO over Prism

  A UK citizen challenging two police forces and the ICO hopes to achieve a landmark ruling similar to that obtained by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems, who scuttled the Safe Harbour agreement

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  CGI to provide electronic health records to MoD

  The MoD has extended an outsourcing agreement with CGI to build on existing work the IT services firm does with its global medical operations

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  The capital needs more diverse tech talent, says London Assembly report

  The London Assembly Economy Committee urges mayor of London Boris Johnson to further champion women in IT, re-design apprenticeships to improve skills and diversity, and lobby for superfast broadband in the capital

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Manchester bags £10m smart city prize in government contest

  Manchester’s CityVerve project scoops the £10m jackpot in the government’s smart city and internet of things competition

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Home Office e-Borders programme costs to reach £1.1bn by 2019, says NAO report

  The failed e-Borders programme has cost £830m to date, with a further £275m projected costs before the Home Office produces new systems in-house, due to go live in 2019

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  The US and China agree more steps to fight cyber crime

  The US and China have made progress in expanding co-operation on cyber crime as China claims criminals and not state-backed hackers broke into the US Office of Personnel Management

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  Bristol rolls out smart meters in 3,000 council flats

  Bristol City Council completes the installation of smart meter technology across a number of its social housing properties

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  UKtech50 2015 - The most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has announced the sixth annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK IT sector

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  UKtech50 2015 - Computer Weekly's five rising stars

  We select five IT leaders destined for great things, to recognise the rising stars of IT alongside our annual list of the 50 most influential people in UK technology

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  Lack of skills make government infrastructure projects more complex, says John Manzoni

  Chief executive of the civil service, John Manzoni, claims a lack of appropriate skills is a barrier to government projects

• December 02, 2015 02 Dec'15

  Australia blames China for cyber attack on supercomputer

  A cyber attack on a supercomputer at Australia's weather bureau has raised fears that potentially sensitive national security information may have been compromised

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  IISS urges world policy makers to consider cyber domain more seriously

  The cyber domain needs to be better understood and the subject of greater strategic focus, according to a report by the Interanational Institute for Strategic Studies

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Peterborough launches Digital City programme

  Initiatives such as a superfast fibre network and cloud computing services are part of the city’s digital drivers as it launches its Digital City Peterborough programme

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  EU agencies boost Europol powers to fight terrorism and cyber crime

  The European Parliament and Council have agreed to extend Europol's powers to enable faster responses to terrorism, cyber crime and other organised crime

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Rural payments problems led to 40% increase in costs, says NAO report

  Inappropriate behaviour and too much focus on IT procurement led to rural payments programme costs spiralling to 40% over budget, says National Audit Office report

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  East Riding of Yorkshire Council to get digital customer service platform

  Council takes a platform approach to customer services in a five-year deal with Civica

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Was enough Stem funding announced in the autumn statement?

  The IT industry is facing a growing skills gap, so what does it think about the announcement of the Department for Education’s budget during the 2015 spending review and autumn statement?

• November 30, 2015 30 Nov'15

  Airwave to fight Home Office in court over ESN award

  Emergency services communications operator Airwave takes the government to court over the awarding of Lot 3 of the ESMCP to EE

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  First businesses connect to Edinburgh’s gigabit network

  The first businesses have begun to connect to Edinburgh’s council-backed CORE fibre network

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Breach notification the biggest impact of EU data law overhaul, says law firm

  The EU data notification law will mean most UK organisations will have to change their approach to data breaches, according to legal firm Olswang

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  GDS aims for £3.5bn savings using its £450m budget

  The Government Digital Service plans £3.5bn in efficiency savings on the back of its £450m budget, including a £1.3bn saving from its government-as-a-platform programme

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Digital drives business consultancy in IT outsourcing renewals

  As IT outsourcing contracts come up for renewal, CIOs might consider more business expertise to help them negotiate contracts that support inevitable digital expansion

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership takes control of its network

  The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership enhanced network and application visibility and security using Fortinet technology

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  City University London virtualises telephony and contact centre systems

  City University London replaces a 24-year-old comms setup with a virtualised, cloud-based contact centre system

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Paul Haley, CIO, City University London

  Higher education faces budget cuts and growing IT requirements, but a £200m overhaul at City University London is bearing fruit

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  OBR brands HMRC digital tax accounts project ‘high risk’

  Office for Budget Responsibility says HM Revenue and Customs’ £1.3bn digital tax accounts project contains uncertainties in “behavioural response and operational delivery”

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Spending review: Osborne gives NHS £1bn for technology boost

  The NHS will get £1bn to spend on technology – including an interoperable patient record system – chancellor George Osborne has announced

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Emergency Services Network gets funding boost in Spending Review

  The Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme emerges from the government's Spending Review a billion pounds better off

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  George Osborne promises £1.8bn funding for digital technology

  Chancellor George Osborne announced a £1.8bn investment in digital technology over the next four years and handed the Government Digital Service £450m

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Dorset tenders for shared care record

  Nine local authorities and NHS organisations are looking to create a Dorset Care Record across the region, integrating health and social care

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  G-Cloud suppliers hit out at government IT pricing deal with Huddle

  Whitehall procurement chiefs respond to claims preferential pricing deal with Huddle goes against G-Cloud ethos

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  UK defence review criticised for being too light on cyber

  Compared with the annual defence budget of almost £40bn, the allocation for cyber defence is extremely small, say commentators

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  Defence review promises 1.2% of defence budget spend on technology

  The government’s defence review highlights need for technology investment, innovative ideas and cyber security

• November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15

  UK police make two arrests over cyber crime services site

  A joint investigation by the NCA and information security firm Trend Micro has led to two arrests in connection with a crypting website

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  UK economy could gain £14bn by investing in digital skills

  A report by the Tinder Foundation and Go On UK reveals that investing in digital skills could produce £14bn for the economy

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  Mixed signals fuel mixed feelings about Australia's data-retention plan

  There are mixed feelings about Australia's data retention plans as the telecommunications industry weighs up the costs of compliance

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  UK and Estonia launch TechLink programme

  The UK and Estonian governments are launching a TechLink programme to share best practice and innovations

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Cyber Security Challenge UK terror final kicks off in London

  Would-be cyber warriors are defending Church House at Westminster Abbey from a simulated biological cyber terror attack in a battle to take top honours in the 2015 Cyber Security Challenge UK final

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  GDS on the hunt for digital training and support suppliers

  The Government Digital Service (GDS) is looking for digital training services suppliers to take part in a framework agreement worth £35m

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  HMRC Capgemini staff transfer consultation not as flexible as hoped, says union

  With less than two weeks left until HMRC’s deadline for transferring 250 Capgemini staff in-house, talks aren’t going as well as hoped, says the Public and Commercial Services Union

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Coalition of top tech firms opposes weakened encryption

  Weakening security with the aim of advancing security simply does not make sense, a coalition of top tech firms tells US president Barack Obama

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Departing DVLA technology chief says 'job done', moves back to centre

  DVLA's former chief technology officer returns to Cabinet Office after executing 'exemplar' GDS programme

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Group litigation against Post Office being prepared in Horizon dispute

  Subpostmasters who believe they have been wrongly punished for misaccounting or theft due to flawed computer system prepare group legal action against Post Office

• November 19, 2015 19 Nov'15

  London Fire Brigade goes live with GPS 999 call system

  After a year of delays, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) goes live with a mobilisation system from Capita – which uses GPS tracking for quicker response times

• November 19, 2015 19 Nov'15

  Islamic State issues anti-hacking guidelines as Anonymous launches campaign

  Islamic State (IS) anti-hacking guidelines recommend using virtual private networking tools to create encrypted connections and changing IP addresses

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Cyber security mindset needs to change, says report

  Government organisations are prime targets for cyber attacks, leading to increased importance on robust information security, according to a report by Intel Security and the Digital Government Security Forum

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Whitehall IT chiefs open up about challenges of going cloud-first in central government

  Whitehall IT chiefs talk about the progress they have made with abiding by the central government cloud-first mandate

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Trent & Dove Housing virtually upgrades infrastructure

  Moving to a virtualised environment means housing association can move forward with digital projects

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Post Office IT support email reveals known Horizon flaw

  An email from Post Office IT support reveals a problem with the Horizon system and supporting processes that could lead to accounting errors

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Met Police forced to stick with ageing command and control system after project delays

  The Metropolitan Police Service has been forced to stick with its 30-year-old command and control system for a further three years after problems with its replacement delayed plans to go live in October 2015

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Osborne pledges £1.9bn investment in cyber security

  Chancellor George Osborne has promised a £1.9bn investment in cyber security over the next five years and to “aggressively defend” public services from cyber attacks

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Yorkshire and Humber police tender for IT system worth up to £41m

  South Yorkshire and Humberside Police Forces want a multi-channel customer contact and resource management system worth up to £41m

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Asean higher education institutions increase software and services spend

  Higher education organisations in developed Asean countries are investing heavily in software and services as their IT use matures

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Over 55,000 businesses took advantage of government Connection Vouchers

  As the DCMS-sponsored Connection Voucher scheme winds down, statistics reveal that over 55,000 small businesses in the UK took advantage of the grants

• November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15

  Security forces drive hacking idustrialisation, says SensePost

  The buyers of cyber attacks are military and police organisations who are willing to pay to enable taskforces to get into devices, says SensePost