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Recent Posts
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UK government's 'tech superpower' ambitions must be matched by realism and collaboration
- Editor in chief 17 Mar 2023 -
A data-driven government needs to look beyond regulation
- Editor in chief 02 Mar 2023 -
The challenge for DSIT: don't become the department of 'Yes, but...'
- Editor in chief 10 Feb 2023
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt went for it in a big way in his Budget speech this week. Fewer than 400 words were spoken, barely three minutes completed, before we got to cross off the ...
If you were to read through the many interviews that Computer Weekly conducts with IT and digital leaders, you would be left with a clear picture of the number one focus for organisations looking ...
Any (very) longstanding Computer Weekly readers may be able to cast their minds back to a time when this blog would make a regular call for the UK government to give technology policy a ...
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Tech’s new year resolution: More humility
- Editor in chief 22 Dec 2022 -
UKtech50 2022: You can see these tech leaders, now be like them when it comes to diversity
- Editor in chief 07 Jul 2022 -
Digital levelling up must be a priority for the tech community
- Editor in chief 01 Jul 2022 -
A breathless week for digital government and government digital
- Editor in chief 14 Jun 2022 -
Did HMRC really 'lock taxpayers out' from their online accounts?
- Editor in chief 26 Apr 2022 -
The state of digital identity in the UK - such a great idea, you'll need a whole bunch of them
- Editor in chief 18 Mar 2022 -
At last, the world is listening to the Horizon victims - the Post Office must finally listen, too
- Editor in chief 25 Feb 2022
So, that was 2022. After two years of plague, we’ve now added poverty and war. Feeling optimistic about 2023, anyone? Enjoy those Christmas parties while you can… It feels somewhat churlish - amid ...
When Computer Weekly announced the first UKtech50 list of the 50 most influential people in UK technology, back in 2011, just seven women were included. Now, as we publish the 12th annual list, not ...
The UK government’s plans for “levelling up” have, justifiably, come in for criticism. Nice rhetoric, but where’s the delivery? Fair comment. But for the tech community, attempts at digital ...
If you have worked in the tech or digital world for less than five years, the past week must have been very exciting for you. First, you would have read about the new digital government strategy ...
Did HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) really “lock taxpayers out” from their online accounts, as The Guardian has claimed? It’s a situation that arose from a predictable and – according to HMRC – ...
The promise of digital identity is a simple one: Prove once that you are who you say you are, and then forever more you have a single method to log in to any online service you choose. No more ...
We are only two weeks into the statutory inquiry examining the Post Office IT scandal – two weeks of what is likely to be a year-long process – and already what we’ve learned is only compounding ...
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For 2022, let's get less excited about tech
- Editor in chief 10 Jan 2022 -
At last, the UK has a mass-market digital identity system - now let's use it
- Editor in chief 25 Oct 2021 -
Time to take a step back on police use of facial recognition
- Editor in chief 18 Oct 2021 -
Do we really want a single digital identity system to access government services?
- Editor in chief 17 Sep 2021 -
The UK government data protection reforms - good for business, but are they good for you?
- Editor in chief 16 Sep 2021
We all understand and recognise the enormous potential for technology to transform our work, our economy, our culture, our society, our lives. We all know the incredible benefits that lie in store ...
Great news for all those who have followed the troubles and travails of digital identity in the UK for the past couple of decades. Finally, we have a digital ID system, developed in the public ...
We’ve all seen the detective shows on TV. The cops find a CCTV picture of the likely “perp”. The put-upon junior detective is tasked with wading through a database of photos in the hope of finding ...
Is the UK government about to make a new announcement on its plans for a single digital identity for citizens to access online public services? On 22 September, two seemingly coordinated ...
This is a guest post by Computer Weekly security editor Alex Scroxton, which features in the 21 September issue of the Computer Weekly digital magazine as its leader column. It is hard to sum up ...