Former DWP minister calls for re-insourcing of digital tech
Lord (David) Freud (pictured), retired minister for welfare reform at the DWP, has called for the government to bring the technology behind Univers…
Is machine learning the holy grail or hype for cyber security?
Every now and then a technology comes along that deserves the hype it attracts – arguably machine learning is one of them. The premise is simple – …
Government publishes digital strategy report, but is it enough?
The government has put its Transformational Strategy Report (the full report is available here) into the public domain. The idea is to address isol…
Security spend to increase but is that going to be enough?
Security is vital to public and private sectors alike, and the government has already highlighted skills shortages in the area. It’s therefor…
Brexit will need to work technologically as well as politically
Brexit is going to be complex enough in a political sense and the technology to make it work is going to be no less so. The government appears to b…
Vodafone clarifies its position on the future of the emergency services network
Vodafone has raised the alarm – the Emergency Services Network could be hit by its planned changeover to new masts to make the thing work. It…
Government dissatisfied with British cyber security provision and skills
Cyber security is by now a priority for everyone, so it’s no surprise that the British government is getting very hot on the skills needed. T…
Dear Google, the NHS is not a security risk or “bot”
The National Health Service (NHS) is many things but we like to think that among those things, “benevolent” is prime among them. That&#…
Brexit and the single digital market
The Act of Parliament to ratify Article 50 and the resulting notice that the UK will withdraw from the European Union are due tonight. This will ha…
Self-assessment and government is changing, but does everybody know?
Self-assessment for income tax has a finite life. People who have to fill in tax returns, such as freelancers, company directors, shareholders and …
Silicon Valley expresses alarm over Trump travel restrictions
Silicon Valley has started to express its concern and (you could say) disbelief at president Donald Trump’s new travel restrictions. The rest…
Microsoft to train half a million people in cloud by the end of the decade
Microsoft plans to train up 30,000 people in cloud computing by 2020 and will expand the idea to produce half a million cloud experts in the same t…
Do we have enough boffins to outsmart the bots?
If a computer can outsmart us playing chess, what is the next move for mankind? If an automated botnet can easily take control of your car, do pers…
Internet of Things botnets are the latest security threat
A new report from Arbor Networks has identified Internet of Things (IoT) botnets as the latest security risk to emerge in the corporate world. It&#…
IT security may have been mishandled for decades, says cloud pioneer
Look, nobody panic or anything, but we might have been getting this “security” thing wrong the whole time. That’s the view of Ian Pratt, co-founder…
Casting a vote in favour of digitising the electoral process in the UK
At the start of the year a former head of MI6, Sir John Sawers, warned against the use of electronic voting systems, citing fears of international …
Today Donald Trump becomes president of the USA – will we see government by Twitter?
Today Donald Trump will become president of the United States of America. You heard it here first. I’m publishing this article at midday UK t…
Is your technology as well as your culture right for digitalisation?
One of the buzzwords that has defined the last couple of years is digitalisation – if your organisation, whether public or private, doesn’t have th…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is picking up in the real world
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a relatively easy act to follow. Its predecessor is robotic process automation (RPA), which does what it says; aut…
Have you ever tried to borrow an e-book from a library?
Better Connected, the organisation devoted to improving and reporting on connectivity when it comes to local authorities, has issued a report sayin…
Government data skills programmes are good news, but they will not deliver the full potential of data to transform the public sector
The British government recently announced an expansion of its Data Science Accelerator programme, aimed at training civil servants’ in data science…
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