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• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  ASEAN enterprises face hurdles in digital transformation

  Southeast Asian firms know what it takes to transform digitally, but they are not as adaptable as they would like to be, a survey has found

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  DCMS publishes report on opening data access to stoke economic growth

  Research from Frontier Economics with economist Diane Coyle describes how the government could prime data sharing to stimulate economic growth

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Privacy campaigners hail legal victory over Hancock and Palantir

  Civil liberties organisation OpenDemocracy says it has scored a legal victory over health secretary Matt Hancock regarding the involvement of Palantir in the NHS Covid-19 data store

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Executive interview: Tearing down data silos

  Alteryx’s senior vice-president for Asia-Pacific addresses some misconceptions about data analytics and what the company is doing to stake a bigger claim on the market

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Recognising APAC’s top industry leaders

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts to tap new business opportunities, improve efficiencies and solve pressing issues

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: How DBS is transforming credit processes

  DBS Bank’s credit architecture programme has digitised and reimagined credit processes through a unified platform that has improved the productivity and efficiency of its credit teams

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Flybuys cranks up cloud for service efficiency

  Australia’s biggest loyalty platform takes 12-month journey towards the cloud, slashing time to deliver customised offers to less than 45 minutes, among other outcomes

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Bharat Petroleum refines operations with a digital nerve centre

  Bharat Petroleum has developed a digital nerve centre powered by the internet of things and artificial intelligence technologies to monitor the journey of its products

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Jio Platforms taps machine learning to manage telco network

  Why India’s largest telecom operator built its own machine learning platform to meet the growing data and signalling requirements of new networks

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  TUC warns of gaps in British law over use of AI at work

  The TUC has published a report warning of AI-powered discrimination against working people enabled by gaps in existing British employment law

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  Bharti Airtel taps OpenStack to modernise telco network

  India’s Bharti Airtel turns to OpenStack to ready its network for emerging technologies such as 5G and edge computing

• March 24, 2021 24 Mar'21

  Covid-torn supply chains speed cloud adoption, says Oracle’s Miranda

  Second wave of pandemic has seen some Oracle customers speed up adoption and others attend to some enterprise software housekeeping

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Generation Z majority left cold by data literacy

  Data literacy is a term with little currency among 16 to 21-year-olds, according to research commissioned by analytics database company Exasol, but more than half of those surveyed think data skills should be more prominent in education

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Scottish government AI strategy majors on ethics and inclusion

  Scottish government announces artificial intelligence strategy that involves the creation of a Scottish AI Alliance to be drawn from across society, including trade unions and companies

• March 23, 2021 23 Mar'21

  Home Office completes transfer of all business apps to Oracle Cloud

  Home Office has completed its deployment of Oracle’s Cloud Applications suite to all its functions across 35,000 staff, ahead of other government departments

• March 22, 2021 22 Mar'21

  Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge

  Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Josh Bersin 2021 technology guide vaunts employee experience

  Josh Bersin’s annual HR technology market guide for 2021 pulls out employee experience as the hottest area, as the sector shifts to productivity-boosting tech

• March 15, 2021 15 Mar'21

  Parliamentary PACA Committee slams Gove over Covid-19 data failures

  Parliamentary Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee publishes report critical of government accountability regarding data behind the decisions taken during the coronavirus pandemic

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Oracle Q3, 2020-21: Revenue growth of 3% backdrop to Ellison attack on SAP

  Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison launches competitive attack on SAP as Oracle’s third-quarter results show revenue growth of 3%

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  IFS ramps up single-platform cloud delivery as it bids ERP adieu

  Business applications supplier shifts fundamentally to cloud infrastructure while sloughing off enterprise resource planning as it rebrands

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  SAS launches free data skills programme for job seekers

  Pro bono data skills programme, in tandem with job placement agencies, has the aim of training 10,000 people

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  Police crack world’s largest cryptophone network as criminals swap EncroChat for Sky ECC

  Belgian and Dutch police have breached the encryption of users of Sky ECC, the world’s largest cryptophone network. There are significant parallels with the international police operation against the EncroChat cryptophone network which led to ...

• March 08, 2021 08 Mar'21

  Google Cloud makes inroads in Southeast Asia

  Number three public cloud supplier has made inroads into Southeast Asian enterprises such as Indonesia’s Salim Group and is assessing opportunities for new cloud regions

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Affordable legal advice for all – from a robot

  Artificial intelligence project strives to make legal advice affordable to the whole of society

• February 26, 2021 26 Feb'21

  Palantir once more in sights of civil libertarians over NHS Covid data store

  The award of a new government contract to data analytics supplier Palantir on the back of its participation in the NHS Covid-19 data store has provoked Open Democracy into legal action, backed up by an exposure of lobbying activity that pre-dates ...

• February 25, 2021 25 Feb'21

  GCHQ sets out rules of the road for AI in cyber

  A paper produced by GCHQ shows how the intelligence agency can use artificial intelligence responsibly as a tool to protect the UK’s national security

• February 24, 2021 24 Feb'21

  Internet companies should provide real-time data on disinformation, Lords told

  Fact-checking experts tell House of Lords inquiry that upcoming Online Safety Bill should force internet companies to provide real-time information on suspected disinformation, and warn against over-reliance on AI-powered algorithms to moderate ...

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics

  Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed

• February 21, 2021 21 Feb'21

  Dell to invest $50m in Singapore innovation hub

  Dell Technologies’ global innovation hub will house a research and development lab and other facilities to drive development and adoption of emerging technologies

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  City of Helsinki adopts MyData principles to improve digital services

  Principles on the use of personal data for the benefit of society will guide Finnish capital’s ambitious digital plans

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Covid-19: Risk model identifies 800,000 vulnerable individuals

  Research funded by the National Institute for Health Research has resulted in the development of a new coronavirus risk assessment model

• February 16, 2021 16 Feb'21

  Qatar regulator launches platform to monitor human understanding of financial crime

  Qatari financial services regulator works with global body to provide digital platform to assess whether financial services workers understand how to prevent financial crime

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  NHS trust expedites data management with Qlik in pandemic

  Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust turned its use of BI apps from Qlik to rapid effect during the Covid-19 public health emergency

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  UK border surveillance regime highly privatised, says Privacy International

  Research from Privacy International raises concerns about the deep involvement of technology companies in the development and deployment of various technologies throughout the UK’s border regime, along with the lack of scrutiny they receive

• February 11, 2021 11 Feb'21

  Benioff projects future of work onto Salesforce’s ‘Cloud 3.0’

  Salesforce is unveiling a vision of the future of work based on what it calls ‘Cloud 3.0’, with ‘Hyperforce’ – a rearchitecting of the Salesforce CRM platform to run on public clouds

• February 09, 2021 09 Feb'21

  Big data platform to speed up DNA analysis

  Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre has developed a big data platform that can analyse DNA data up to 16 times faster than current techniques

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Microsoft launches Viva as employee experience platform born out of Teams

  Microsoft has launched an “employee experience platform”, based on Microsoft Teams, said to aid the integration of the working environment

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  CDEI: Local government data use must keep up Covid momentum

  The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation says momentum in local authority data use during the Covid-19 pandemic is in danger of being dissipated without central government investment and support for data skills development

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  Healthcare and life sciences dominate 2021 DataIQ 100 list

  NHS England’s managing director of data and analytics, Ming Tang, joins data leaders from pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and GSK in the top 10 of this year’s DataIQ 100 list

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Microsoft and Singtel team up on 5G via Azure Stack

  Microsoft Azure customers in Singapore will soon be able to use Singtel’s 5G infrastructure to power 5G applications through the telco’s edge computing platform

• February 02, 2021 02 Feb'21

  Bank of Singapore taps analytics to improve operations

  Private banking arm of Singapore’s OCBC Group will use analytics to improve compliance, customer service and the performance of its sales teams

• February 01, 2021 01 Feb'21

  ‘Victory for free speech and openness’ after tribunal confirms no territorial restrictions to FOIA

  Freedom of information tribunal rules that investigative journalists and others can use the Freedom of Information Act if they live outside the UK or are not British citizens

• January 31, 2021 31 Jan'21

  Indian firms see growing value of data

  Half of Indian IT leaders see a permanent increase in value of data as their organisations come under threat from mounting cyber attacks amid the pandemic

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  Biometrics ethics group addresses public-private use of facial recognition

  Home Office’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group releases briefing note on the use of live facial recognition in public–private collaborations following a year-long investigation

• January 28, 2021 28 Jan'21

  SAP launches ‘Rise’ business transformation as a service

  SAP CEO Christian Klein announces business transformation as a service package, dubbed Rise

• January 21, 2021 21 Jan'21

  Interview: Tony Porter, chief privacy officer, Corsight AI

  Tony Porter speaks to Computer Weekly about the changes in facial-recognition during his time as surveillance camera commissioner, the ethics of using the technology, and his new role as chief privacy officer at Corsight AI

• January 19, 2021 19 Jan'21

  UK fraud agency deploys ArcGIS dashboard for data sharing

  The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau says it has achieved improved transparency with the public, as well as saving 3,500 staff hours and £100,000

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  Coalition proposes secure standard model for Covid-19 passports

  Vaccination Credential Initiative is working to ensure that people vaccinated against Covid-19 can access their records in a secure, verifiable and privacy-preserving way

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Banks and telcos lead big data analytics spending in APAC

  Banks and telcos contributed nearly one-third of spending on big data analytics in the region, while the government and healthcare sectors will register the highest growth rates, new research finds

• January 13, 2021 13 Jan'21

  Court to rule on Facebook data sharing after Schrems drops legal challenge against Irish regulator

  Irish High Court says it will issue a judgment as soon as possible over a draft decision by Ireland’s data protection commissioner to order Facebook to stop the transfer of data about EU citizens to datacentres in the US