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Recent Posts
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It’s time to party! Yet another government digital identity scheme is on the way
- Editor in chief 06 Jul 2020 -
GDS 'under duress' - is there a row going on down near Whitechapel?
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2020 -
Remote working works - and can herald a post-pandemic social revolution
- Editor in chief 03 Jul 2020
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 ...
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has taken its fair share of criticism in recent years – including from Computer Weekly - and much of it justified. But there’s little doubt the team at GDS HQ ...
Amid all the uncertainty and fear of the coronavirus pandemic, within the tech world surely one longstanding myth has been dismissed forever – the idea that remote working and employee productivity ...
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Why not collaborate on an international contact-tracing app? (Well, we know why the UK won't...)
- Editor in chief 18 Jun 2020 -
Meet the Identity and Attributes Exchange – GDS’s future for digital identity after Verify
- Editor in chief 09 Jun 2020 -
Contact-tracing app tests on the Isle of Wight show that technology is not the solution
- Editor in chief 15 May 2020 -
What will a post-pandemic world look like for IT leaders?
- Editor in chief 14 May 2020 -
DWP takes centre stage in future of Gov.uk Verify
- Editor in chief 11 May 2020 -
Don’t get too excited about ‘immunity passports’ just yet
- Editor in chief 04 May 2020 -
After Universal Credit delays, GDS's silence over Gov.uk Verify is embarrassing and shameful
- Editor in chief 02 Apr 2020
To the surprise of nobody, the government has reversed its plans for the NHS contact-tracing app, switching from its initial centralised model to the decentralised version supported by Google and ...
As the Government Digital Service (GDS) prepares for the winding down of its Gov.uk Verify service, its future plans for digital identity are becoming a little clearer. In recent weeks, GDS has ...
The NHSX contact-tracing app has been in live testing on the Isle of Wight for over a week now, and already we can make one important conclusion – a conclusion that was surely self-evident anyway. ...
Two months into lockdown, Gartner is forecasting an 8% decline in global IT spending in 2020 – a figure that would be seen as catastrophic in any other year. But considering that some economies are ...
The Government Digital Service (GDS) has published its first blog post on Gov.uk Verify since July 2019. Given the dearth of communications about the troubled digital identity system, it tells a ...
As the UK government starts trials of its contact-tracing app in the Isle of Wight, attention will soon shift towards another potential app-enabled solution to help ease lockdown requirements and ...
In the past couple of weeks, nearly a million people have signed up for Universal Credit as a result of the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis. Never has the UK government’s move to a digital-first world ...
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Budget 2020: Thanks for the cash, but there are bigger problems to solve first to boost UK tech
- Editor in chief 13 Mar 2020 -
Cabinet Office gives more non-answers on the future of Gov.uk Verify
- Editor in chief 04 Mar 2020 -
Would you still consider the UK an attractive destination for global tech talent?
- Editor in chief 28 Feb 2020 -
Want to hear the latest on Gov.uk Verify? Sorry, GDS still has nothing to say
- Editor in chief 14 Feb 2020 -
Technology is losing its battle to be a unifying force
- Editor in chief 30 Jan 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s first Budget was a step towards making good on the new government’s promise to be “unashamedly” pro-technology. Offering £22bn in annual funding for research and ...
The remarkable levels of secrecy and avoidance of scrutiny around the Gov.uk Verify digital identity scheme continue – and if anything, seem to have reached new levels of absurdity. Last week, ...
Imagine you’re a skilled, ambitious IT professional living outside the UK and you want to maximise your earning potential and your exposure to the latest technology. You’re assessing where in the ...
The great and the good of the digital identity sector gathered in London yesterday (13 February) for the Think Digital Identity for Government conference – a popular bi-annual event that always ...
The pioneers of the internet and the web saw themselves as liberators. They believed, passionately, they were creating a better world – one that was open, collaborative, broke down barriers, and ...