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Recent Posts
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Congratulations to GDS on open document formats - but will Microsoft resort to litigation?
- Editor in chief 24 Jul 2014 -
Universal Credit business case not approved - obfuscation from the most open government in history
- Editor in chief 08 Jul 2014 -
To every male IT leader - it is your responsibility to get more women into IT
- Editor in chief 04 Jul 2014
Back in February, when the UK government's consultation on the use of open document formats closed, I described the decision to be made by the Cabinet Office as the acid test of its commitment to ...
The government has finally been forced to admit that the business case for the troubled Universal Credit programme has still not been signed off - despite repeated assurances that approval was ...
Congratulations to the 25 most influential women in UK IT - our annual list was announced yesterday, and it contains some amazing, high-achieving individuals (who happen to be women). The event at ...
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Labour's digital rhetoric is increasingly positive towards GDS
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2014 -
Dear HP, Microsoft (and others) - stop bleating, start competing
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2014 -
Can social science save the web?
- Editor in chief 13 Jun 2014 -
Russia invests £2.8bn to deliver 10Mbps fibre broadband across the country
- Editor in chief 06 Jun 2014 -
Bringing the technology world to Russia
- Editor in chief 03 Jun 2014 -
How Moscow money and the post-Soviet generation hope to create Russia's Silicon Valley
- Editor in chief 02 Jun 2014 -
Are the UK's borders being compromised by legacy IT systems?
- Editor in chief 02 May 2014
Labour MP Jon Cruddas gave a speech this week that was barely reported in the press, but contained his party's most significant statements yet about the role of digital and technology in a ...
There's an interesting story in The Independent today that highlights the issue I wrote about on this blog last week - about the Cabinet Office policy of trying to make the old "oligopoly" of big ...
Pretty much every week these days you can expect a story in Computer Weekly on one of two topics: the growing importance and influence of the web to business and economic development; and the ...
Earlier this week, I was in Moscow, visiting the Skolkovo Innovation Centre, Russia's $15bn attempt to create a tech startup environment to compete with Silicon Valley.I mentioned in one of my ...
The billions of rubles of government money being invested in the Skolkovo Innovation Centre on the outskirts of Moscow (read my previous post for more details) is not only going into developing the ...
The Skolkovo Innovation Centre is about a half-hour drive from Red Square, in a 400 hectare building site on the outskirts of Moscow. Today and tomorrow, it's the venue for the second annual ...
My sources suggest that the IT problems that affected UK airports and sea ports earlier this week were related to Warnings Index, the ageing system that sits at the heart of the UK's border ...
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Is DWP looking for yet another new chief for Universal Credit?
- Editor in chief 29 Apr 2014 -
Who wants Windows XP to live forever?
- Editor in chief 04 Apr 2014 -
GDS becomes political as Labour launches digital government review
- Editor in chief 11 Mar 2014 -
Is DWP about to lose its CIO?
- Editor in chief 05 Mar 2014 -
Thanks Microsoft - we now know that everybody prefers ODF to OOXML for government document standards
- Editor in chief 24 Feb 2014
Is the troubled Universal Credit programme looking for yet another new leader for the project?A good contact of mine has told me that he was approached by two separate headhunters recently, asking ...
And so the most popular PC operating system of all time reaches the final winter of its years.Windows XP goes out of regular support on 8 April, but it is testament to its enduring success that ...
Government IT - and in particular, the role of the Government Digital Service - is about to get political. Tomorrow night, the Labour Party launches its digital government review, a programme ...
I've been told that the Department for Work and Pensions CIO, Andy Nelson, is about to step down from the role.The information came from a usually reliable source, but at the time of writing this, ...
Microsoft's call to its friends in the software community to contribute to the government's consultation on open document formats seems to have worked. Although, perhaps not as Microsoft intended. ...