When the government announced that a new police-led, privatised company called the Police ICT Company would take over…
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Cyber Security Challenge UK’s CEO Colin Lobley has lofty ambitions on closing the skills gap
When Colin Lobley worked as a general manager of HPE Security Services of EMEA, he could see the pain that companies …
IT Leaders: DWP Digital CDIO Mayank Prakash on making Universal Credit a success
When Mayank Prakash joined the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) three years ago, he had the unenviable task of h…
IT Leaders: Camden Council interim CIO Omid Shiraji wants area to be ‘Centre of Data’
Camden Council is in the midst of a big change programme. It had signed a shared digital and ICT service agreement wi…
IT Leaders: Co-Op CDO Mike Bracken on GDS, going digital and his next adventure
This is the first in a new series of interviews with the UK’s IT leaders. Mike Bracken is revered in public sec…
British withdrawal from ECHR could cease UK-EU data transfers, experts warn
A move to withdraw Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights could cease data transfers between the UK and…
Open Data Institute calls for government data policy, whoever wins
The Open Data Institute (ODI) put up a blog last week about the forthcoming general election and to the surprise of p…
How broadband is undermining government growth objectives
Broadband is a fundamental plank of everything from your banking transactions to the government’s digital econo…
Continuous workplace learning key to the UK government’s Digital Strategy
Two important government announcements have been made in the past few weeks that will directly impact the digital eco…
US charges Russian spies over massive Yahoo! breach
Today’s papers and online sources are full of the charges against two Russian spies (among others) over the bre…