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• Driving innovation in government

  An insider's perspective on the organisation, culture and methods used to drive innovation in the Department for Work and Pensions  Continue Reading

• The harsh reality for newspapers in the fight against Facebook, is that people won’t pay for news

  The Australian media is the latest to try to get Facebook and Google to pay for using their news stories. That only exposes the fact that not enough readers want to do so  Continue Reading

• Why a shared channel experience will meet user needs at DWP Digital

  The Department for Work and Pensions outlines the approach it is taking to developing user-focused digital services  Continue Reading

• Why you should think before you Zoom

  Feel free to use Zoom during the coronavirus lockdown, but think before you discuss anything confidential  Continue Reading

• Coronavirus: What does the ‘new normal’ mean for how we work?

  Examining the long-term impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic on the world of work, security, privacy and networks  Continue Reading

• Real digital modernisation – a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the new UK government

  A new UK government with a decisive majority offers a unique opportunity to finally introduce public services for the digital age – if the Conservatives are willing to take it  Continue Reading

• Why the banking industry needs an IT makeover

  UK banks face huge challenges keeping their service availability levels at 99.99%  Continue Reading

• What is the right goal for digital inclusion?

  Most tech observers agree that digital inclusion is important, but the digitally excluded can have quite different views on what they want  Continue Reading

• Tech helps tackle trafficking and modern slavery, but industry needs a culture shift to eradicate it

  Technology can help end the scourge of modern slavery, but the sector can do more and needs a change in thinking to take a lead  Continue Reading

• What are the options for regulating internet companies?

  The UK – and other countries – are likely to introduce new regulations for internet and tech companies like Facebook and Google. We consider what sort of rules they might introduce  Continue Reading

• Getting it right this time: Why the strategy is not about delivery for NHSX

  Government needs to move on from the mantras and beliefs that exist around digital and technology – the new NHSX organisation could set an example by transforming healthcare  Continue Reading

• Austerity versus the march of technology – an economist’s perspective

  Technology, in the economic sense, is an indicator of growth in a successful developed economy. But is tech efficiency also enabling the negative effects of austerity?  Continue Reading

• The journey to turning your organisation into a platform

  Compete with digital rivals by becoming a platform organisation – how companies can start navigating the transformation journey  Continue Reading

• Introducing ‘focus and leverage’ – the value algorithm of the internet era

  Anyone pitching a business idea or designing a new service needs to understand the economics of mature internet technology  Continue Reading

• Will the EU Copyright Directive ‘break the internet’?

  A new European Union law proposed for copyrighted material has provoked strong reactions from all sides – but what does it mean?  Continue Reading

• Digital transformation is just business change

  Don't always start with the technology if you're driving transformation, but always start with the business  Continue Reading

• Hacking the internet of things just got easier – it’s time to look at your security

  Are you taking security for internet-connected devices seriously enough?  Continue Reading

• Newspaper woes show that when technology changes, everything changes

  Traditionalists bemoan the declining finances of newspapers, but those old sources of revenue aren't coming back – technology has changed everything  Continue Reading

• Digital takes aim at the professions – disrupting doctors, lawyers, academics and accountants

  Traditional professions will be the next to see significant change – and competition – as digital technology introduces new ways of working  Continue Reading

• Scotland, the perfect home for digital nomads?

  Scotland needs public and private sector support for entrepreneurs, and ubiquitous superfast broadband if its digital economy is to thrive, says MSP Jamie Greene  Continue Reading

• Was that it? Business as usual for fintechs after Brexit vote

  Following the Brexit vote, Fintech Times editor Bird Lovegod describes how financial services IT startups are getting on with business as usual  Continue Reading

• Blockchain and the CIO: a new model for IT

  The most important emerging technology for the enterprise – and therefore the CIO – is not big data, the social web, artificial intelligence, robotics or the cloud – it’s blockchain  Continue Reading

• The consumerisation of machine intelligence

  Machine intelligence is improving fast – as demonstrated by Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo success – and IT leaders need to plan for its effect on enterprise IT  Continue Reading

• If government wants city devolution to succeed, cities need to use data

  Developing smart data-driven cities needs to be a priority if the government's devolution policy is to succeed  Continue Reading

• Declining capital investment no problem in a digital economy

  Economists and politicians are fretting about the fall in capital investment – but this is to be expected in a digital economy where startup costs are shrinking  Continue Reading

• Big companies will out-innovate tech startups in coming years

  Innovations by large corporates will grow rapidly as they become the most innovative companies over the next decade  Continue Reading

• The pace of digital disruption varies widely by industry

  Digital disruption is inevitable - but different forces in different industries mean the pace of change varies by sector  Continue Reading

• Why HTML5 must replace Flash

  Author Robin Nixon explains why the days of Flash are numbered  Continue Reading

• Five lessons learned from a year in the cloud

  Startup online estate agency Purplebricks.com was built on the cloud. The technical director shares the company's experiences and lessons learned  Continue Reading

• Where next for UK government as a platform and GDS?

  Amid all the debate about the direction of digital government, it's important to take a critical look at the GDS plan for government as a platform  Continue Reading

• Driving digital productivity in the UK

  There is a need for British businesses to improve their adoption of digital technologies  Continue Reading

• When DevOps isn't enough, try NoOps

  Letting developers loose to create, test and deploy new code without operations might streamline processes, but it's not without its risks  Continue Reading

• A computing soundtrack for the history of British technology

  Artist Matt Parker created a musical piece composed from the sounds made by vintage computers at The National Museum of Computing  Continue Reading

• The Matrix is here – leveraging digital ecosystem strategies

  You don't have to take a red pill to discover the modern-day matrix, but executives need to understand the digital economic ecosystem  Continue Reading

• Government as a platform, or a platform for government? Which are we getting?

  Government as a platform is the latest buzzword in Whitehall - but is that really what they are going to deliver?  Continue Reading

• Making sense of the internet of things

  Welcome to Thingalytics, the use of real-time analytics and algorithms to guide you through the maze of fast big data  Continue Reading

• A farmer’s view of the rural payments digital service

  A farmer and his software executive son give their views on the problems with the rural payments digital services  Continue Reading

• Think digital, act local: transforming relationships between services and citizens

  Digitisation can help local government save money, reinvent services and recast the relationship between the citizen and the state  Continue Reading

• Pro-European parties should unite around a UK vision for the digital single market

  The UK is the EU’s leading digital economy and home to its biggest creative sector so has most to gain and most to lose in a digital single market  Continue Reading

• What is government as a platform and how do we achieve it?

  There are lots of discussion going on at the moment about digital “platforms”, and the impact they might have on UK public services  Continue Reading

• Disrupted everything: How Google will change our world

  While Apple could be the first company to hit a $1tn valuation, Google could be first to hit a $2tn market cap. But how will it get there?  Continue Reading

• Turkey’s internet restrictions – a hindrance to the country’s IT ambitions?

  Legal experts examine recent changes to Turkish Internet Law and the potential impact on the country’s IT business environment  Continue Reading

• US technology companies facing growing UK pressure over internet spying

  Tension is growing between the UK and US over Prism spying  Continue Reading

• Let’s get digital on the electoral curriculum for all our politicians

  More politicians need to understand how changing the business model of government through digital methods can help UK plc's bottom line  Continue Reading

• A practical framework for digital public service delivery

  There is a tension between governments’ need to be more flexible and agile, and the discipline to use standard platforms and open architecture  Continue Reading

• Balancing agility and efficiency: Open architecture and platforms in government

  Increased flexibility in delivery models must be balanced with the architectural discipline to re-use, share, and consume common components  Continue Reading

• Simplicity as a digital differentiator

  This autumn, it seems that mobile payments are finally taking off  Continue Reading

• The five trends shaping the future of work

  If there’s one thing that we can all agree on it’s that the world of work is changing…quickly.  Continue Reading

• A phisher’s paradise

  Email is one of the earliest services created on the internet and, arguably, remains the most important  Continue Reading

• What businesses can learn from Buzzfeed’s success

  Buzzfeed has raised $50 million and is planning to use it to offer more content, expand its video production unit and open more offices  Continue Reading

• Exploring new business models for digital public service delivery

  Many public sector organisations appear overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the changes in public service delivery that they face  Continue Reading

• Toward digital government – what’s new?

  The UK has historically suffered a recurrent mismatch between political aspiration and any meaningful and sustained technical delivery  Continue Reading

• Revolutionising digital public service delivery

  Public sectors across the world are attempting a transition away from closed, top-down, bureaucratic, and paper-based transactional models  Continue Reading

• Government must be a platform entrepreneur to deliver 'digital 2.0'

  The government needs to start with a clear policy and architecture for digital 2.0  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: ‘Fear of Google’ and the ethics of digital business

  Could the big digital players be using their dominance by exerting unfair competition?  Continue Reading

• PSN makes changes to reduce risk

  Director and head of compliance, PSNGB, Adele Parker, talks about how PSN will transport the bulk of government information  Continue Reading

• Migrating the Department for Education to GOV.UK

  Department for Education's Digital Solutions Manager discusses the challenges the department faced in moving its services online  Continue Reading

• User-centred design – it’s always about leadership: The case of Singapore’s hospital in a garden

  Khoo Teck Puat hospital in Singapore is a wonderful example of what can be achieved with user-centred design and fantastic leadership  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: The CIO is dead. Long live the CIO

  There is a new breed of CIOs who are defining what it means to be a digital leader  Continue Reading

• Mobility management is coming of age

  2014’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought together the mobile telephony infrastructure industry, multiple handset vendors and large numbers of mobile app tools and platforms  Continue Reading

• Opinion: 2014 – The year of Digital Connectome

  We are living through an unprecedented period in human history, one in which the internet has enabled near-instantaneous connections between people and machines at a scale never seen before  Continue Reading

• Searching for the signal of open standards amid the growing noise of agile

  For all its undeniable strengths, the use of agile in government is in danger of becoming a fetish  Continue Reading

• Universal Credit: Don’t blame the IT

  It is easy to blame the IT when things go wrong, but when people are asked to do impossible things, it is not surprising if they do not deliver  Continue Reading

• Not in Kansas any more

  PA Consulting's Alastair McAulay looks at the commercial potential of smart watches, Google Glass and the latest smartphones  Continue Reading

• UKGovCamp 2014 - discussions on delivering digital government

  UKGovCamp is an event with growing importance to the public sector digital scene - this year's event took place last week in London  Continue Reading

• How to create a Local Government Digital Service

  Why we need to create a 'Local Government Digital Service' to oversee the standardisation and improvement of all things digital in councils  Continue Reading

• Don’t politicise digital government - public platforms belong to no-one

  The future of digital government is of enormous importance to the UK, and it’s vital to stimulate more public interest and debate in both Labour’s and the Tories’ digital visions  Continue Reading

• The accessibility challenge for 'digital by default' public services

  Is the Government Digital Service spending its £50m budget for 'assisted digital' in the right way?  Continue Reading

• How to lead when change is the new normal

  Business leaders need to think about the impact of ubiquitous technology on their future employees and the vastly different expectations they will have  Continue Reading

• An evidence-based approach must underpin digital transformation

  The government IT profession needs to question failings in IT delivery and consider a different approach to business analysis  Continue Reading

• Giving UK SMEs the digital tools they need

  It is vital that organisations use the digital tools at their disposal to ensure they are able to take advantage of growth opportunities.  Continue Reading

• The future of application development

  As cloud adoption continues to increase , most organisations are making important decisions in executing their cloud strategies  Continue Reading

• The Great Deverticalisation – part 5: Mind the GaaP

  Politicians and government have the opportunity, through the power of open platforms, to take the lead in creating modern public services  Continue Reading

• Forrester: The secrets of digital disruption

  Companies can exploit digital disruption to unleash the next wave of innovation, says Forrester Research  Continue Reading

• Interflora versus M&S: taking advantage of the internet

  The long-standing dispute on the trademark infringement of the Interflora brand by M&S in keyword advertising will be decided by the High Court in mid-April 2013  Continue Reading

• Turning retail space into a digital environment

  Robin Young, COO of Mitchells and Butlers, on turning its pubs and restaurants into digital environments to attract new customers  Continue Reading

• The Great Deverticalisation - part 2: The power of open

  The public sector has the opportunity, through the power of 'open', to take the lead in creating organisations for the future success of UK plc  Continue Reading

• Open source is just a weapon

  If open source is rapidly growing and dominating many industries, should the answer to every IT question be "open source"?  Continue Reading

• Rackspace CTO predictions for 2013

  Rackspace chief technology officer John Engates gives his IT predictions for 2013  Continue Reading

• Mind the digital gap - a strategy for accessibility

  There still exists a digital gap and it is vital to understand the ways in which digital exclusion might be remedied in the future  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Best practice to target SQLi

  Why does SQL injection remain a successful way of attacking web applications?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: No quick fix to SQLi attacks

  Why does SQL injection remain a successful way of attacking web applications?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SQLi is basically a process problem

  Why does SQL injection remain a successful way of attacking web applications?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SQLi attacks fly under security testing radar

  Why is SQL injection still a successful way of attacking web applications and what should you do to eliminate this common vulnerability?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Quick time to market to blame for many SQLi attacks

  Why does SQL injection remain a successful way of attacking web applications?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Development and testing key to reducing SQLi attacks

  Why does SQL injection remain a successful way of attacking web applications?  Continue Reading

• Hacking open data on development aid

  Using open data to analyse information about international aid shows the benefits - and the limitations - of the ICT for development field  Continue Reading

• Has going public lost its appeal?

  Charlie Mayes, managing director of DAV Management, discusses how the public is starting to lose interest in company IPOs.  Continue Reading

• Why are we making 'lose-lose' technologies?

  With access to the lowest interest rates in history, corporates are undertaking a massive capital-intensive restructuring where technology is quietly replacing human jobs  Continue Reading

• Cookie consent: Preparing for the compliance crunch

  Data privacy specialist Phil Lee from law firm Field Fisher Waterhouse answers some commonly asked questions about the new cookie rules  Continue Reading

• Why great companies die - repeatedly - and is Microsoft next?

  The Penny Black stamp revolutionised comunications - and taught us lessons that some IT giants today are failing to learn.  Continue Reading

• The problem with Open Data

  Although clearly a good thing in theory, Open Data risks increasing the digital divide and social inequality unless approached right.  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Cloud, mobility, social among top infosec challeges for 2012, says ISACA

  What is the most important nut for infosec to crack in the coming year and why? Global IT security association ISACA gives its views.  Continue Reading

• Is time running out for internet domains?

  The world’s political leaders are taking an unusually intent interest in the technical system of Internet domains’ naming and numbering (the DNS).  Continue Reading