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• January 26, 2018 26 Jan'18

  ODI report reveals key data publishing challenges

  Lack of standards, vision and adequate skills among key reasons organisations are struggling to publish quality data, according to Open Data Institute

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Theresa May wants UK to be world leader in ‘ethical AI’

  In her World Economic Forum speech, the prime minister highlights the need to harness tech, flies the flag for “responsible AI development” and calls on tech companies to step up and fight paedophiles and terrorists using online platforms

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Robots are needed to manage the automation robots

  The next decade will see robots transform from invisible forces obeying our commands to lifelike objects interacting with humans on a daily basis

• January 24, 2018 24 Jan'18

  Department for International Development launches digital strategy

  Strategy highlights potential of technology to reduce poverty as department aims to become a global leader in digital

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Modern methodology gives Sweden’s 100-year-old SKF a digital push

  Long-established engineering company takes a leaf out of the startup guide to software development

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Facebook offers funding to secure the internet

  Facebook has announced that it is offering funding for research into ways of improving internet security

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  NHS England wants to use algorithms to handle NHS 111 enquiries

  NHS England looks at potential of processing patient enquiries using algorithms as it works on rolling out an online version of NHS 111 by December 2018

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Manchester’s CityVerve launches new internet of things challenge for SMEs and startups

  Manchester’s CityVerve smart city project has called for IoT developers and startups to tackle challenges in healthcare, transport and energy

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  Lancashire Police launches voice-driven Amazon Alexa app

  Lancashire Constabulary’s new app gives users hourly news updates and sends pictures of wanted criminals straight to their Amazon Echo devices

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Health and care in Wales must take advantage of tech, says parliamentary report

  The Welsh government must do more to gain the benefits of technology and innovation to deliver better and more effective care, according to a parliamentary review of the country’s health and care system

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Demand for cloud services drives increase in IT outsourcing

  Cloud services spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset a drop in traditional IT outsourcing in 2017

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Tech vital to helping solve crime, says policing minister

  Policing minister Nick Hurd calls on police forces across the UK to seize the opportunities brought by digital technologies

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Dream machines: how IT is changing the world of neuroscience

  We talk to computer scientist and entrepreneur Jamil El Imad about the cutting-edge intersection of neuroscience and IT

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Davos: Disintegration of the internet could create economic turmoil

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by fake news, cyber attacks, and artificial intelligence to jobs, political stability and global security, at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 15, 2018 15 Jan'18

  Advanced Asian countries well positioned for Industry 4.0

  The industrialised economies of Asia are well-poised to benefit from advanced manufacturing and emerging technologies, but true industrial transformation remains nascent

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Call for statutory regulation of police number plate cameras amid concerns over accuracy

  The UK’s automatic number plate recognition database – one the largest non-military data-gathering systems – records up to 1.2 million false readings of number plates every day. It should be subject to statutory regulation, says an independent ...

• January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18

  Alan Turing Institute to add universities of Birmingham and Exeter to data science network

  The Alan Turing Institute has announced the latest two universities to join its data science research network

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Retail banking regulations hit UK with the potential of a ‘Big Bang’ moment

  The UK retail banking sector is at the beginning of a journey towards to a more competitive future as new regulation hits them

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Sample datasets key to successful AI at NHS

  IT providers will need access to datasets from NHS Digital to create artificial intelligence algorithms, but they should be held accountable for the systems they develop, says report

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  CES 2018: Hyundai and Cisco bring SDN to the automobile

  Hyundai will debut a new generation of hyperconnected software-defined car in 2019, incorporating a Cisco-designed network platform

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Health sector digitisation vital to combat mental health crisis

  Collaboration and digitisation within the health industry is critical to deal with the growing mental health crisis, but more support is needed from policymakers

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Citizens want more from public sector digital transformation

  Survey shows digital skills and lack of integration are among major barriers to good online government services

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Voice assistance technology gets emotional

  Many people who use Alexa get frustrated by her lack of understanding. But by 2022, voice technology will have evolved to understand emotion

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  UAE tech growth prompts firms to review internal IT security

  As IT becomes more prominent in the UAE economy, more and more internal connections between people and systems are created, all of which need to be secured

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Marks and Spencer eyes £30m annual cost savings from digital-first retail push

  High-street retailer has fleshed out plans to put digital at the heart of its business to boost operational efficiency in response to changing consumer demands

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Changes for digital government in Theresa May's reshuffle

  Matt Hancock takes over as DCMS secretary of state, while Caroline Nokes says goodbye to her role as the minister responsible for digital at Cabinet Office

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Spanish authorities ready roads for autonomous vehicles

  Spain’s Directorate General of Traffic has selected Mobileye technology to develop vision and data analysis for driver assistance and autonomous vehicles

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cyber attacks in 2017 drive Nordic security efforts

  The volume of cyber attacks last year has increased boardroom focus on security in the Nordic region

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  China to open $2.1bn AI tech park in Beijing

  An area in the western part of Chinese capital Beijing has been designated as the launchpad for China to hone its capabilities in artificial intelligence

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  HMRC IT systems crash as customers attempt to file tax returns

  Several HMRC IT systems crashed on Saturday, leaving customers attempting to file their tax returns frustrated as the deadline approaches

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  Telco outsources digital transformation to Infosys

  Belgium's biggest telco will cut legacy systems as part of a digital transformation project

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  Case study: Doing digital the Stockport way

  Stockport Council’s digital programme is working to transform services for both citizens and staff, saving chunks of money and driving efficiency at the same time

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  London attracted record tech investment in 2017

  London-based tech firms received record levels of venture capital funding last year

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Government yet to ‘fully embrace’ digital, says IoD report

  Institute of Directors report says the government’s digital drive has lost momentum and calls on public sector to harness private sector technologies and innovation

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018

  Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead

• December 22, 2017 22 Dec'17

  Air New Zealand to trial digital translation technology

  Airline becomes one of the first companies to try out a business case for Google's real-time translation technology

• December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17

  Sweden’s Stena Line sets sail for digital transformation

  Ferry operator’s CTO tells Computer Weekly how the company can differentiate itself by using digital tools to make its processes more efficient

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Top 10 enterprise IT in the Nordics stories in 2017

  The Nordic region might be best known in IT circles for its startup communities – but it has much more to offer

• December 18, 2017 18 Dec'17

  How machine learning is applied in industrial IoT

  GE Digital calls for the need to build industrial machine learning systems that are cognizant of the effects of a good and bad answer

• December 13, 2017 13 Dec'17

  HP is running its global print supplies production from Singapore

  The personal computing and printer giant has opened a facility in Singapore to oversee over 50 print supplies manufacturing lines and test the use of robots, data analytics and 3D printing to improve production efficiency

• December 13, 2017 13 Dec'17

  Labour MP Liam Byrne launches ‘People’s Plan for Digital’

  Shadow digital minister launches online collaborative project for the public and industry to share and debate ideas on the UK’s digital future

• December 11, 2017 11 Dec'17

  Innovation key to halt cyber attacks

  In the light of the number of cyber breaches taking place, innovative security systems are required, according to the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

• December 11, 2017 11 Dec'17

  CIO interview: Christine Walters, director of informatics, St Helens & Knowsley NHS Trust

  St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s director of informatics, Christine Walters, talks about running a health informatics service, the importance of understanding how people on the front line work and managing expectations

• December 10, 2017 10 Dec'17

  Australian genome researchers solving big data problems

  Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation have developed a cloud-based tool to look for the needle in a haystack in what they have described as the "datafication of everything"

• December 08, 2017 08 Dec'17

  Santander UK recruits digital banking expert from Barclays

  Santander UK has poached Michael Harte from Barclays to drive digital transformation

• December 08, 2017 08 Dec'17

  Forging a new identity: IT underpins Openreach’s independence

  Openreach chief technology and information officer Mark Lam discusses how IT is helping to forge a new and distinct identity for the network infrastructure business as it leaves the wider BT Group

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  UKtech50 2017 - The most influential people in UK IT

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

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  UKtech50 interview: DWP chief digital and information officer Mayank Prakash

  The UKtech50 most influential person in UK IT 2017, Department for Work and Pensions chief digital and information officer Mayank Prakash, talks about changing ways of working, the importance of culture and the role of new technologies

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  CIO interview: Carlos Abarca, TSB

  Carlos Abarca is guiding TSB through its migration from systems hosted by a competitor to a digitally focused in-house core banking platform.

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Mayor of London opens Bangalore office to strengthen links with Indian businesses

  City of London’s office in India’s tech hub aims to promote Indian investment and IT jobs in UK capital