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Loving it when an identity plan comes together
- Editor in chief 02 Mar 2012 -
The man who might be king (well, deputy king)
- Editor in chief 24 Feb 2012 -
G-Cloud is launched, now the dating game begins
- Editor in chief 20 Feb 2012
To quote a phrase that was mightily popular in the 1980s: I love it when a plan comes together. In this case, it's not even my plan, but it's one I've found myself writing about often over the past ...
When Computer Weekly interviewed Cabinet Office permanent secretary Ian Watmore recently, he cited three names as the key people driving change in IT across the public sector. Two were to be ...
In a victory for the government IT reformers, the G-Cloud framework and its associated CloudStore services catalogue are now live. It's an achievement that deserves congratulation - from the public ...
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Who will be the next government CIO?
- Editor in chief 23 Nov 2011 -
The day Cisco tried to drown me
- Editor in chief 03 Oct 2011 -
The PASC report on government IT: a cause for cynicism and optimism
- Editor in chief 29 Jul 2011 -
Government identity banks start to take shape
- Editor in chief 15 Jun 2011 -
The start of an era
- Editor in chief 15 Apr 2011 -
Dear Phil Pavitt, this one is for you
- Editor in chief 31 Mar 2011 -
When is the new government IT strategy due?
- Editor in chief 02 Mar 2011
There's suddenly a big gap at the top of government IT. In less than two weeks, government CIO Joe Harley and his deputy Bill McCluggage have both announced their impending departures from ...
The London 2012 Olympics is a test not only for the athletes taking part, but also for the IT suppliers whose technologies help to make it all happen. Last week, I was given an opportunity by ...
Computer Weekly has to declare a conflict of interest when it comes to writing about yet another report from some branch of Parliament that issues scathing criticisms of government IT. Frankly, if ...
Here's a story that's going to run and run - and one I predict will start to make national news headlines once its significance sinks in to the consumer press. As part of its plans to create a ...
The article below is the editorial leader column from the last ever printed issue of Computer Weekly magazine. If you like nostalgia, you may want to treasure the magazine you hold in your hands ...
How often do you, as an IT leader, tell people in other parts of the business what you have achieved? For many IT folk, that sort of self-promotion doesn't always come naturally - and often that ...
There's plenty of rumour and speculation doing the rounds over the timing and contents of the imminent government IT strategy, due to be released anytime soon by the Cabinet Office. I've been told ...
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Will John Suffolk be the last government CIO?
- Editor in chief 07 Dec 2010 -
Stuxnet "most likely" to have originated from Israel
- Editor in chief 28 Sep 2010 -
"Up to now the use of IT in the NHS has not been a success story"
- Editor in chief 10 Sep 2010 -
Goodbye ID cards - is it time to say hello to identity banks?
- Editor in chief 20 May 2010 -
What Larry wants, Larry gets: what next for acquisitive Oracle?
- Editor in chief 08 Feb 2010
Government CIO John Suffolk effectively leaves his post at the end of this month - although I understand that he will still be on the public payroll until the end of March next year - but there ...
The cyber security world is alive with gossip about Stuxnet. The virus has been described as one of the most sophisticated yet created, containing an unprecedented four zero-day vulnerabilities in ...
Many thanks to Chris Potts for this wonderfully timely and ironic spot from the annals of Department of Health history. Click here to read a document published in 1998 by the Labour government, ...
As expected, the new government has scrapped the controversial and unwieldy identity cards project created as a flagship of Labour policy. Labour's problem was that it never properly explained why ...
Several years ago, I sat next to then-Oracle UK managing director Ian Smith at an industry event. At the time, the software giant was pursuing an aggressive and increasingly contentious purchase of ...