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Government needs to ‘take stock’ of digital progress, says Reform Think-tank says Covid-19 has shown the importance of a ‘digitally enabled’ public sector, but there is still a long way to go to realise the full potential of technology Share this item with your network: By Published: 21 Jan 2021 11:09 Think-tank Reform has published a report calling on the government to “take stock” and understand the challenges ahead to realise the benefits of digital transformation in the pub...

Security professionals are ever alert to the threats they face, but some still seem to think it is unlikely they will be attacked.

IR35 private sector reforms: IT contractors warned to be wary of non-compliant umbrella companies The proliferation of websites offering comparison site-like services for umbrella companies has prompted tax experts to warn IT contractors of the financial risk posed by firms offering ‘too good to be true’ take-home pay rates Share this item with your network: By Published: 21 Jan 2021 10:00 A surge in the number of umbrella company comparison sites offering “too good to be true” tak...

UKtech50 2021: Vote for the most influential person in UK technology Our judges have picked a shortlist, and now we invite readers to tell us who should be chosen as the most influential person in the UK tech scene for 2021 – submit your vote now Share this item with your network: By Published: 21 Jan 2021 14:04 Computer Weekly has opened voting for the annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK technology – the CIOs, industry executives, public servants an...

How Globe Telecom is doubling down on cloud The largest mobile operator in the Philippines has moved its legacy systems to the cloud and there is more to come as it looks towards deploying cloud radio access networks and cloud-native applications Share this item with your network: By Published: 20 Jan 2021 8:44 Like many other mobile network operators in the world, Filipino telco Globe Telecom has been laying the technology foundation to support the demands of new 5G services. Cloud comput...

Felix Pergande - Fotolia IT scandal exposes legal rule that made it easy for Post Office to prosecute the innocent Lawyers call for changes to digital evidence rule that made it easier for the Post Office to ‘bamboozle courts’ and make subpostmasters pay a heavy price for its IT failings Share this item with your network: By Published: 20 Jan 2021 10:22 Two separate events in 1999 have become inextricably linked in the process of destroying the lives of hundreds of subpostmasters acr...

Parler v AWS, digital schooling, ambulance data – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast By Related Podcasts Listen to this podcast In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss the purgation of Parler, the traumas of digital schooling and the South Central Ambulance Service’s use of data to support their operations during the Covid-19 pandemic In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast...

Monetary Authority of Singapore revises its technology risk management guidelines to help the financial sector guard against supply chain attacks.

Smarter use of AI means business process optimisation, not simply automation To get the most from artificial intelligence and automation, IT leaders need to focus on where the technology adds real-world business value, not the trendy tech Share this item with your network: By Published: 18 Jan 2021 It is often said there are only three benefits for business investment – to reduce costs, increase sales and mitigate risks. However, underpinning all of these are the harder-to-measure (espec...

APAC buyer’s guide to data management In this buyer’s guide, we look at the challenges surrounding why enterprises are struggling to deal with data, the use of cloud data management platforms, artificial intelligence, and recommend some best practices Share this item with your network: By Published: 18 Jan 2021 In 2018, two industry experts forecast that the world’s collective data growth would be staggering. Research firm IDC predicted that data would rise from 33 zettabytes (ZB) in...