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• May 08, 2019 08 May'19

  MP sets out concerns over GP at Hand software

  Concerns raised over the robustness and breadth of the software underpinning Babylon Health’s app amid calls for an inquiry into the tool

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  Highways England trials self-driving trucks for roadworks

  A pilot is aimed at reducing project timescales and increasing worker safety, though vehicles are expected to take another two to three years to be fully operating

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  Tech manifesto calls on health secretary to ‘get basics right’

  Royal College of GPs says joining up IT systems is essential to enable innovation

• May 03, 2019 03 May'19

  Labour calls for creation of ministry for cyber security

  Shadow Cabinet Office minister Jo Platt accuses government of failing to provide leadership to fend off cyber risks

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Lloyd’s of London unveils digital ambitions

  Reforms will include a split into two automated exchanges, which is expected to boost performance and savings while reducing cost of services to customers

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Department of Health enhances medical innovation programme

  The Accelerated Access Collaborative initiative is expected to fast-track pioneering treatments and produce multimillion-pound savings to the NHS

• May 02, 2019 02 May'19

  Boots appoints former NHS IT executive as director of innovation

  Retailer Boots has enlisted Richard Corbridge, former chief digital and information officer for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, to support its digital transformation initiatives

• May 01, 2019 01 May'19

  Department of Health pushes online regulation agenda

  Tech giants commit to initiative to remove harmful content from their websites but MPs call for further changes in algorithms

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  CIO interview: Mark Holt, CTO, Trainline

  A data-led strategy underpins the growth of the public transport app, which sells over 200 tickets a minute and logs more than 80 million customer visits a month

• April 30, 2019 30 Apr'19

  Department for International Trade slashes tech SME funding

  Smaller UK companies will see their ability to showcase their offerings at large international events compromised, trade bodies say

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Home Office to award £300m contract for management of biometric services

  Government department is behind schedule in the selection of suppliers to work on two platforms covering fingerprints, DNA and facial matching capabilities

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  CIO interview: Dylan Roberts, CDIO, Leeds City Council

  After 15 years leading technology in Leeds, Dylan Roberts is building a digital ecosystem for the entire region, even looking at how digital services can help extend life expectancy for local people

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Danske Bank and IBM bring AI to banking IT

  Artificial intelligence partnership is designed to reduce the risk of major IT outages and keep the bank’s customers happy

• April 29, 2019 29 Apr'19

  Malaysia to get its first AI park

  Malaysia’s first artificial intelligence park to be developed by a trio of local and Chinese firms is expected to raise the country’s standing in the global race for AI supremacy

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Digital map of UK underground pipes and cables to be developed

  The Underground Asset Register is expected to reduce the costs and safety issues associated with maintaining underground cables and pipes

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Central government fails to meet SME tech spending targets

  Smaller businesses find it “impossible” to win public sector tenders while the number of single-bid contracts rises, report says

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Laing O’Rourke Australia chooses private cloud route

  The Australian arm of global engineering firm Laing O’Rourke signs up for Nutanix to run its core applications on a private cloud

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Public becoming more aware of privacy abuses and unethical tech

  Widespread abuses of privacy, biometric information and artificial intelligence mean the internet is in poor health, but growing popular awareness of its problems gives some cause for hope, says the Mozilla Foundation

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  European Union to create central biometrics database

  New rules will see the introduction of a repository of personal data from hundreds of millions of citizens to support law enforcement across member states

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  Cabinet Office seeks chief digital information officer

  The newly created role will sit within the Government Digital Service and lead a 630-strong reporting function for digital, data and technology strategy

• April 25, 2019 25 Apr'19

  No final decision taken on Huawei 5G ban, government claims

  Culture secretary tells MPs that a final decision on use of Huawei in UK 5G networks has not been taken, and says government is taking the leak of confidential discussions at the National Security Council very seriously

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Internet Watch Foundation raises stakes in war against online child porn

  Organisation’s work around tackling the spread of child sexual abuse imagery is being enhanced with advanced video tagging technology and artificial intelligence

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  Market must address IT failures in large infrastructure projects, government says

  If companies want certainty that strategic investment will continue post Brexit, they need to address areas such as technical complexity management, says the chief executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  PM May approves Huawei for use in 5G networks despite opposition

  The UK’s National Security Council has approved the use of Huawei’s networking equipment in parts of the country’s 5G mobile networks in spite of widespread opposition

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  How technology is shaping Malaysia’s economy

  Malaysia has one of the most digitally connected societies in the world, but more work is needed to bridge the digital divide

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  London Ambulance Service trials real-time access to patient data

  The NHS Identity Service pilot enables clinicians to access summary care records on secure iPads

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Digital court system reaches first key milestones

  The platform rolled out at Crown Courts in England and Wales a year ago has increased speed and efficiency of online citizen services and saved 100 million sheets of paper so far

• April 22, 2019 22 Apr'19

  With Anthos, Google seeks to unify open source cloud technologies

  Urs Hölzle, Google’s head of technical infrastructure, talks up efforts to deliver what he claims to be the first open source cloud stack

• April 19, 2019 19 Apr'19

  UK government adds voice to citizen services delivery

  Voice technology enables access to more than 12,000 information items through Alexa or Google Home

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  Facebook leaks: Zuckerberg turned data into dollars in ruthless battle with competitors

  Facebook’s CEO ruthlessly exploited personal data shared by its users to turn Facebook into the biggest social network, but internal documents show that privacy appeared to be an afterthought for executives

• April 18, 2019 18 Apr'19

  Widespread adoption of digital ID could boost economic growth

  New study argues that the standard could bring benefits to businesses in sectors such as financial services as well as government – but it all depends on high adoption rates

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  UK government to introduce online porn age checks

  World-first regulations will see age verification introduced in July and enforced by the British Board of Film Classification. Non-compliant sites risk withdrawal of payment services or being blocked

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  HM Land Registry completes blockchain trial

  HM Land Registry’s blockchain project is part of a wider digital transformation initiative which aims to simplify and speed up the process of buying and selling property

• April 17, 2019 17 Apr'19

  How UnaBiz is disrupting the IoT market in APAC

  From offering low-cost connectivity to hardware design and integration services, the Singapore-based technology supplier is causing a stir in the internet-of-things market

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Home Office curbs bulk emails following data breach

  Department has introduced new rules for mass messaging after exposing email addresses of EU settled status scheme applicants

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Findings published from three-month pilot for NHS App

  Biometric login functionality and additional repeat prescription ordering capability are among the enhancements made in response to user feedback to the NHS App

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Huawei cyber security chief John Suffolk: It’s not our culture to be aggressive

  John Suffolk, global cyber security and privacy officer at China-based telecoms equipment supplier Huawei, tells Huawei Analyst Summit growth is the best answer to US criticism

• April 16, 2019 16 Apr'19

  Dutch national weather service adopts cloud to expand service offerings

  The migration of legacy systems to an AWS set-up will precede the design of a real-time early warning centre for the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  Post-Brexit IT talent shortages concern UK CIOs

  Finding and training tech staff remains an issue and is set to get worse after the UK leaves the European Union, says Barclaycard study

• April 15, 2019 15 Apr'19

  NHS launches care home availability portal

  New tool is aimed at optimising hospital occupancy and saving social care staff “hours of phoning around”

• April 14, 2019 14 Apr'19

  Singapore firms streamline operations, fend off disruption with cloud

  Certis and financial institutions are among those in the city state that are turning to cloud services to gain a competitive edge

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  UK government launches cloud sustainability probe

  Government departments are being asked to provide information about the energy footprint of the cloud services they use

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  Lancaster University enhances student engagement with cloud-based chatbot

  University is using Amazon Web Services to enhance the development of a voice-enabled “online companion” with machine learning and artificial intelligence

• April 12, 2019 12 Apr'19

  ASEAN datacentre providers must up their game

  Digital transformation trends are changing the ASEAN datacentre landscape and those that wish to succeed must transform themselves, says Frost & Sullivan

• April 11, 2019 11 Apr'19

  European Commission tackles transformation challenges with cloud

  Modernisation plan continues at the EC, with an upcoming migration and major savings on the horizon

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  ANZ business users calling the shots in ICT decisions

  Business users in ANZ firms have more sway about technology decisions, but it is not always a case of shadow IT

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  EC publishes artificial intelligence guidelines

  Report is intended as a starting point of an international discussion around trustworthy AI and its recommendations will be put to the test in a trial later this year

• April 08, 2019 08 Apr'19

  UK introduces world’s first online safety regulations

  Announcing ‘the end of online self-regulation’, a duty of care is introduced to hold companies accountable for potential harm and safety of users of their services

• April 05, 2019 05 Apr'19

  NHS IT jobs need to be promoted differently

  More ambition and a mindset change is required to attract more technology talent to the national health service

• April 05, 2019 05 Apr'19

  Dutch government to make AI national priority

  The Dutch government wants to increase its focus on the artificial intelligence sector, as other countries gain an advantage