England and Wales’s long-awaited Covid-19 contact tracing app is due to go live on 24 September, the government…
Govtech leaders optimistic that public sector will bounce back from Covid-19 crisis
The UK’s govtech leaders are broadly optimistic about the public sector’s ability to bounce back from the…
How will the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app work and when will it go live?
This article is regularly updated to reflect emerging developments. After a short hiatus, the UK has announced that…
Covid-19 Test and Trace programme is unlawful, government admits
The government has been forced to concede that England’s “world-beating” Test and Trace programme h…
Revealed: Palantir secures £1m contract extension for NHS data store work
Peter Thiel’s controversial data analytics firm Palantir has secured a £1 million contract extension for its wo…
Revealed: TMT execs less pessimistic than most about economic impact of Covid-19
Senior executives in the UK’s technology, media and telecoms (TMT) sector are less pessimistic than most about …
Fujitsu to cut office space in half amid Covid-19 pandemic
Fujitsu will cut its office space in half within three years, and make provisions for its 80,000 domestic employees t…
British Red Cross CIO Rosie Slater-Carr video interview – Collaborate and over-communicate
British Red Cross CIO Rosie Slater-Carr believes senior technology leaders need to collaborate with executive peers a…
Where did it all go wrong for the UK’s Covid-19 contact tracing app?
Back in May, the UK’s oh-so-imminent contact tracing app was hailed as the jewel in the crown of its “wor…
UK embraces Apple and Google’s contact tracing model, scraps centralised app
Update, 15:00 PM BST, 18 June 2020 (original story below): The UK government has sacrificed its attempts to make a ce…