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Clashing agendas, by David Freud - review: How Universal Credit got there in the end
- Editor in chief 30 Jun 2021 -
The dangers of binary arguments in a complex and relative digital world
- Editor in chief 25 Jun 2021 -
Lack of leadership, confusion and frustration - the state of digital identity in the UK
- Editor in chief 20 Apr 2021
It was nearly 10 years ago, in October 2011, when Computer Weekly first reported on concerns about the IT project behind Universal Credit. That was five months before the new Coalition government’s ...
In his 1983 book, Modern times: a history of the world from the 1920s to the year 2000, historian Paul Johnson claims the modern world started on 29 May 1919, when astronomers studying a solar ...
To nobody’s surprise, efforts by a group of peers to force the government to accelerate progress on digital identity in the UK foundered in the House of Lords yesterday (20 April 2021). Baroness ...
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Zombified Gov.uk Verify is officially dead - so what's next?
- Editor in chief 26 Mar 2021 -
Industry concerns over government digital identity plans risk a confusing outcome for users
- Editor in chief 23 Feb 2021 -
Unravelling the new digital leadership plans in UK government
- Editor in chief 13 Jan 2021 -
Don't be the one who gets the blame - the Home Office's biggest lesson in UK borders IT
- Editor in chief 09 Dec 2020 -
What next for digital identity in the UK? Industry welcomes latest DCMS plan
- Editor in chief 24 Nov 2020 -
Why setting IT budgets for 2021 will be harder - and easier - than ever
- Editor in chief 13 Nov 2020 -
The splitting up of IBM is unlikely to end here
- Editor in chief 15 Oct 2020
The UK government has finally admitted in public for the first time that its flagship digital identity programme, Gov.uk Verify, is dead. This will be no surprise to anyone following the project, ...
A flurry of recent activity suggests the government is ramping up its plans for the long-awaited demise of Gov.uk Verify, its failed attempt to produce a digital identity system for online public ...
In September 2019, the then civil service chief executive John Manzoni told Computer Weekly that the new digital leader he wanted to recruit for the UK government would “have to be very wise, very ...
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it,” or so the oft-repeated quote from philosopher George Santayana goes. Where the UK’s Home Office is concerned, a far more meta version is ...
After months – some would say years – of frustration and delay, tech suppliers have largely welcomed the latest government initiative to establish a digital identity ecosystem in the UK. The ...
It’s the time of year when many IT leaders will be setting budgets for 2021 and trying to persuade their boardroom why they should have more money to invest in technology. After the year we’ve all ...
Thirty years ago, the UK IT scene was led by two dominant suppliers – the global giant, IBM; and the British tech champion, ICL. Snapping at their heels were Hewlett-Packard (HP), Digital Equipment ...
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Even GDS is telling GDS to shut down Verify
- Editor in chief 08 Oct 2020 -
Is Number 10 waiting for Harry Potter to apply for the government CDO job?
- Editor in chief 18 Sep 2020 -
The subtle clues that show UK government is taking digital identity seriously at last (cough...)
- Editor in chief 01 Sep 2020 -
Managing IT spending amid the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis
- Editor in chief 24 Jul 2020 -
It’s time to party! Yet another government digital identity scheme is on the way
- Editor in chief 06 Jul 2020
The ailing Gov.uk Verify digital identity system was given a Frankenstein’s monster-like burst of energy back in April, when the lockdown-induced surge in Universal Credit applications brought ...
For many years, the UK IT community pined for a government that wants to put technology at the heart of the country’s future; one that understands the importance of bringing digital and policy ...
The UK government has finally unveiled its response to the digital identity consultation that concluded a year ago this month, and along with that announced a new Digital Identity Strategy Board to ...
Uncertainty is the new certainty. As lockdowns ease across Europe, IT leaders are surveying the wreckage of their carefully planned pre-pandemic strategies. Nothing is what it was – according to ...
On 14 March 2021, we will mark the tenth anniversary of the official approval for the development of a single government-wide digital identity system. Save the date in your diaries. Intended to ...