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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 -
The lesson from the NHS Care.data row: You can't keep privacy issues private any more
- Editor in chief 18 Feb 2014
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. ...
The rumbling, growing row over the NHS England Care.data service has become an instruction manual for how not to handle data privacy in the digital age.For anyone not aware of the issue, Care.data ...
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Coding for kids is great - but where do digital skills come from in the meantime?
- Editor in chief 14 Feb 2014 -
The question that matters on Universal Credit: Do you believe Iain Duncan Smith?
- Editor in chief 06 Feb 2014 -
When will government IT teams learn they are not as different as they think
- Editor in chief 14 Jan 2014 -
Universal Credit IT: What we know; what we don't know
- Editor in chief 12 Dec 2013 -
Universal Credit - now the role of IT suppliers must come under scrutiny
- Editor in chief 06 Nov 2013 -
How much worse will Universal Credit IT problems get?
- Editor in chief 12 Sep 2013 -
Universal Credit IT: Separating the truth and the lies - you decide
- Editor in chief 05 Sep 2013
There has been a lot of discussion lately on the topic of teaching school children how to code. Some controversy has ensued - as ever - around some of the initiatives, but there is little ...
Do you believe Iain Duncan Smith?This is becoming a key question in the progress of the troubled Universal Credit welfare reform programme. The secretary of state for work and pensions has staked ...
We learned today of another government IT fiasco - millions of pounds being wasted at the Ministry of Defence (MoD) on a system for recruiting soldiers and reservists for the Army. The project was ...
"There is no debacle on Universal Credit" declared Iain Duncan Smith in his opening salvo to MPs on the Work and Pensions Select Committee this week.The beleaguered secretary of state yet again ...
It is increasingly likely the government will have to write-off most, if not all, of the £303m spent so far on developing IT to support Universal Credit. Multiple sources told Computer Weekly that ...
How much worse might things get with the troubled Universal Credit IT programme?Last week, we learned through a National Audit Office report that already £34m of IT work has been written off. This ...
Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith - the person ultimately responsible for the delivery of Universal Credit - has been touring TV and radio stations this morning, and facing questions in ...
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DWP prepares the ground for NAO to reveal what's really happening in Universal Credit IT
- Editor in chief 04 Sep 2013 -
Unhappy Universal Credit staff point to continuing IT problems
- Editor in chief 06 Aug 2013 -
The end of the CIO in government - what's in a job title?
- Editor in chief 15 Jul 2013 -
10 things men in IT can do to help get women into IT
- Editor in chief 10 Jul 2013 -
There is only one solution to the issue of 'women in IT' - it's men in IT
- Editor in chief 05 Jul 2013
In an unprecedented show of partial openness, the head of the troubled Universal Credit programme has gone public on some of the problems in the government's flagship welfare reform project.This ...
So, what's really going on with the Universal Credit IT programme?If you trust journalistic warning bells - and believe the saying that there's no smoke without fire - then there has to be ...
The days of the CIO role in central government are over. Computer Weekly has followed the steady demise of the Whitehall CIO for some time, since it became clear that the key IT reformers at the ...
We all know there is a problem getting women into the IT profession. I wrote last week that the only real solution to this problem lies with the men in IT - as the dominant group, the only way to ...
This time last year, after Computer Weekly announced the first of our now-annual list of the 25 most influential women in IT, I wrote in this blog about why we don't want to have to write about the ...