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…
A perfect storm is gathering over mainframe users
There are points in time when all things combine to ensure only one likely outcome. Those who can see it coming can prepare, and those who dismiss …
So where does Brexit leave data sovereignty?
2016 was an astonishing year, obviously; From Brexit to Bowie there was an unexpected and depending on your standpoint a difficult event almost eve…
Northern Ireland civil service jobs may be shrunk by technology
As if the Northern Ireland civil service didn’t have plenty to concern itself with at the moment following the departure of Martin McGuinness…
New year’s tech security resolution: prevent your accidental insider threats
Cyber threats dominated the headlines in 2016 and this trend looks set to continue in the year ahead. Data breaches, malware infections and hacked …
Will the train and tube strikes push people into more remote working?
Today the London Underground is on strike. Later this week there will be industrial action on Southern Railway. The rights and wrongs of these stri…
Is AI threatening your job or those of your colleagues?
The classic science fiction mantra has for some time been that artificial intelligence (AI) is a threat and will eventually take over loads of peop…
CES offers a view on where tech is going – and adds to divisions
The CES Expo show, from the Consumer Electronics Association, is primarily about consumer technology as the name of its organiser suggests. However…
Ten predictions for 2017 (please don’t show us this in December when half of them are wrong…)
It’s that time of 2017, when people are only just coming back to work, when people are making all sorts of predictions and forecasts about wh…
New year, new day, new criticism of the government for supporting the tech industry
Well, that didn’t take long. Three days into 2017 (and a happy new year to all our readers of course) and the IT industry is complaining that…
2017 must be the year of digital confidence for UK public sector success
2016 was a year of unprecedented change for both enterprise and public sector organisations; one with more twists and turns than many of us could h…
Will 2017 deliver the promised (broad)band?
This time last week, between frantically getting everything ready for the last day of work, many readers will have been listening to announcements …
#Next Christmas, I give you VR…
Christmas might be that one time of year when we don’t mind ads interrupting our TV viewing. In fact, in some cases you might even say it’s the TV …
Facebook breaks are good for you, study says
If this year has been defined by anything then it’s the unexpected. In politics, Brexit surprised many (although just as many were probably s…
Snoopers’ Charter delayed from unexpected source
The UK’s Investigatory Powers Act, also known as the Snoopers’ Charter, has met with a major stumbling block. The European Court of Jus…
Four ways in which digital transformation will affect 2017
Following the dramatic shifts in the global economic, political and regulatory landscape seen in 2016, there’s no doubt 2017 is set to be a year fo…
All I want for Christmas is some nice tech gifts, please
If I see one more email asking us whether I’ve got my gifts sorted out for Christmas at New Statesman Tech, I’m going to scream. Mostly…
Dear government, could you be using data more effectively?
‘Mind the gap’. That’s a mantra familiar to many Londoners as they negotiate the capital’s tube system in order to get to work. The link with…
You want me to spend how much on a replacement pair of earpods, Apple?
Apple should watch the headlines this year, as history has a habit of repeating itself. Earlier in 2016 New Statesman Tech along with the rest of t…
The Yahoo! story isn’t about hacking, it’s about reacting
Yahoo! is in the headlines again for all the wrong reasons. This time the 10.00 News on the BBC was interrupted last night by a note sent to Huw Ed…
5G rollout had better be better than 4G or we’re stymied
5G is on the way. It doesn’t take a great detective to work that much out, since 3G has given way to 4G as the standard means of mobile data …
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