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IT innovation, research and development

• 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 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Australia and India team up on critical technology

  The first three projects under a joint research grant programme will focus on developing ethical and regulatory frameworks for quantum computing, AI and 5G

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  How AWS is supporting Asia’s battle with Covid-19

  Public sector organisations and startups across the region have been tapping AWS cloud services to speed up and enable a range of pandemic-related initiatives

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Government should do more to protect well-being in the digital world, says report

  A select committee report argues that new health and employment rights are needed to tackle the negative effects of increasing digitisation

• 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 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  EU lays out plans to regulate AI development

  Proposal aims to encourage the development of ethical artificial intelligence systems that do not infringe the human rights of EU citizens

• April 21, 2021 21 Apr'21

  Ocado advances autonomous vehicle strategy with Oxbotica deal

  The £10m investment is part of a push to enhance Ocado’s last-mile delivery and logistics capabilities, with first prototypes expected for 2023

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Banco Santander moving more than 200 servers to cloud per day

  Banco Santander has migrated about 60% of its IT infrastructure to the cloud and is reaping the benefits

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Government launches plan for smart use of knowledge and innovation

  Strategy sets out how Westminster can harness and achieve better value from £104bn worth of innovation and knowledge assets within central government

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  UK technology job creation nears two-year peak

  Pace of recruitment accelerates and optimism reaches highest level since 2014, according to KPMG

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Tech professionals most likely to see mental health decline due to pandemic

  Struggling to cope with anxiety and new ways of working are among the problems workers in the sector face, study says

• 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 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  Sutton Council trials in-home sensor tech

  The council is deploying sensors in the homes of vulnerable people to be able to detect when they might need help

• April 14, 2021 14 Apr'21

  Tesco reports online sales surge, advances digital platform

  Retailer announces 77% boost to e-commerce sales, details on Clubcard app uptake and advances in its IT remediation plan

• 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 12, 2021 12 Apr'21

  Another 27 Danish banks get access to open banking APIs

  Nordic banks gain access to open banking capabilities from Nordic API Gateway, with an agreement through their shared IT service provider

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  University students adapt to remote learning but question value for money

  New research outlines students’ fears around the impact of long-term remote education and lecturers’ skills to operate online

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  CIO interview: Nitin Chaturvedi, chief digital and technology officer, KFC Global

  The Covid-19 pandemic led to the digital element of KFC’s business becoming increasingly important, says the fast food retailer’s chief digital and technology officer

• April 09, 2021 09 Apr'21

  Tech industry sees surge in remote working job postings

  Pandemic drives an increase in demand for “work anywhere” jobs and hybrid skills, research says

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Digital Markets Unit starts work on codes of conduct for tech giants

  Digital markets regulator officially launched to ensure tech giants such as Facebook and Google cannot exploit their market dominance to crowd out competition and stifle innovation online

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  US court issues Google API with Java ruling

  US Supreme Court rules that specifying an API function call to enable third-party developers to access functionality should not be copyrighted

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  GDS seeks director for identity assurance programme

  The new leader will be focused on efforts to deliver a single digital identity system for online public services

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  ASEAN enterprises face hurdles in digital transformation

  Southeast Asian firms know what it takes to transform digitally, but they are not as adaptable as they would like to be, a survey has found

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Nordics run information sharing on digital vaccination passports

  Nordic countries advance plans for digital Covid-19 vaccination passports in a bid to kick-start their economies

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  Australian firms slow to wean off the mainframe

  Australian companies tend to have a wait-and-see mindset that is slowing down mainframe modernisation initiatives, says Accenture expert

• 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 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  How far has open banking come in Europe?

  Open banking is a relatively new concept, having come into effect in Europe only in the last couple of years. So what is the state of play?

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  TSB Smart Agent integrated into mobile banking app

  TSB has integrated a smart agent, developed to relieve pressure on its contact centres during the Covid-19 pandemic, into its mobile app

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Recognising APAC’s top industry leaders

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts to tap new business opportunities, improve efficiencies and solve pressing issues

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: How DBS is transforming credit processes

  DBS Bank’s credit architecture programme has digitised and reimagined credit processes through a unified platform that has improved the productivity and efficiency of its credit teams

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Flybuys cranks up cloud for service efficiency

  Australia’s biggest loyalty platform takes 12-month journey towards the cloud, slashing time to deliver customised offers to less than 45 minutes, among other outcomes

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Bharat Petroleum refines operations with a digital nerve centre

  Bharat Petroleum has developed a digital nerve centre powered by the internet of things and artificial intelligence technologies to monitor the journey of its products

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Sime Darby ups ante in service management

  Sime Darby Industrial’s inService Suite has returned more than 100,000 hours to the company in a digitisation initiative that has improved efficiency and customer engagement

• 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

  DWP completes in-house VME replacement project

  The department has taken an in-house approach to swapping its virtual machine environment (VME), getting rid of legacy infrastructure and replacing 11 key benefits systems

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  Liverpool announces test and development area for drone technology

  Project aims to stimulate investment opportunities, employment and skills for the region

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  NHS to digitise the ‘red book’ by 2023

  Every child born from April 2023 will have a digital ‘red book’, or personal child health record, Matt Hancock has promised

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Former Skyscanner COO will lead Scotland’s tech-led recovery programme

  Following his independent review of the Scottish tech sector, Mark Logan will oversee a programme to establish the country as a world-class technology hub

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Commission calls for adult social care to get digital revamp

  A commission on adult social care has called for the government to fund a personalised social care innovation programme, as well as invest £450m to replace outdated care and housing technology infrastructure

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Interview: Ivan McKee, Scottish innovation minister

  Scotland’s innovation minister talks to Computer Weekly about the country’s new digital strategy, the importance of inclusion, and why the strategy is underpinned by ethical thinking

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Laying the groundwork on quantum roadmap

  IBM has plans to develop a 1,000-plus qubit quantum computer system within two years. We look at how it is preparing software developers

• 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 18, 2021 18 Mar'21

  NHS will get shared care records by September 2021, says Matt Hancock

  The health secretary sets September 2021 target for shared care records roll-out, and wants to explore potential of moving patient data being held in proprietary systems to the cloud

• March 17, 2021 17 Mar'21

  Digital Green Certificate proposed for travel in Europe

  Digital Green Certificates will supposedly help re-establish freedom of movement within the European Union

• 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

  UK plans ‘full spectrum’ approach to national cyber security

  PM Boris Johnson expands on proposed National Cyber Force and plans to set up a north of England Cyber Corridor

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Mace Group uses RealWear to support Covid-safe site inspections

  Construction consulting business is using augmented reality headsets to enable people on Microsoft Teams to inspect building sites remotely

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  UK Space Agency funds projects to tackle space rubbish and micropropulsion

  The UK Space Agency is funding projects such as climate change sensors, compact propulsion systems and satellite image analysis to support the nation’s space ambitions

• March 12, 2021 12 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Fighting fake Covid-19 vaccines with blockchain

  A blockchain-based system developed by Singapore-based Zuellig Pharma can help governments and healthcare providers weed out fake vaccines and manage vaccine distribution and administration