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NHS trust says appointment processes robust despite criticism of role for Post Office scandal CEO NHS trust defends its director appointment process following an external review of its recruitment of former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells Share this item with your network: By Published: 06 Jan 2021 10:54 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has said that an external review of its appointment of former Post Office CEO Paula Vennells has shown its processes to be robust. The trust has been u...

Top 10 NHS IT stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 NHS IT stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Published: 31 Dec 2020 9:00 2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic has been a huge challenge for the healthcare sector, but it has also been a significant driver in technological advances, as well as high-profile projects such as test and trace and the Covid-19 app. When the first wave of the pandemic hit at the beginning of the year, NHS organisations across the country w...

Top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 technology and ethics stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Published: 31 Dec 2020 9:00 The year 2020 has been shaped by the global pandemic and international outcry over institutional racism and white supremacy. A number of technology companies, for example, came under sustained scrutiny for their ties to law enforcement and how, despite their proclamations of using “tech for good”, their ...

Top 10 investigations and national security stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 investigations and national security stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 investigations and national security stories of 2020. Computer Weekly was the first publication to break the story of a devastating ransomware attack against Travelex. The Sodinokibi cyber crime group demanded a six-figure ransom from the company to decrypt critical compu...

Top 10 networking stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 networking stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Published: 31 Dec 2020 9:00 So much has been up in the air since the onset of Covid-19 and the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders issued by various governments around the world, especially those in the major European economies and North America in March 2020. And given the death toll from the coronavirus and the major negative impact that it has had on busin...

This week in our WiCipedia roundup: A booming tech space in Tennessee; Pinterest employee complaints draw unequal results; something good comes of Amazons wealth; and more. When you think of tech, Middle Tennessee doesnt necessarily come to mind. Yet a local news source says the area, which includes Nashville, has become a booming hub for tech jobs. Proponents argue that the industry is thriving there, quality of life is much higher than in more notable regions and despite lower salaries, they ...

Top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Benelux IT stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Published: 30 Dec 2020 9:00 The Benelux region has always punched above its weight in terms of IT, boosted by a tech-savvy and well-educated population. The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have all the ingredients for advanced technology take-up in business and the public sector. They have the academics, the tech suppliers, the wealth and the government...

Top 10 information management stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: Published: 30 Dec 2020 9:00 The use of data to govern the public sphere and help allay the Covid-19 pandemic were the intertwined information management themes of 2020. Popular, too, were articles on how to re-think and build business intelligence capabilities in companies beyond the pandemic. The rise and fall of Dominic Cummings was an ar...

Top 10 telecoms and mobile stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 telecoms and mobile stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Published: 30 Dec 2020 9:00 Looking back to December 2019, the following 12 months were really supposed to establish 5G as a permanent fixture in global communications markets and realising the potential in the many use cases that 5G was intended to make good on. Prime examples were autonomous vehicles and telehealth. But health issues of ...

Top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2020 Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 ASEAN IT stories of 2020 Share this item with your network: By Published: 30 Dec 2020 20:00 The booming digital economies of Southeast Asia showed much resilience in 2020, from tapping open source, data analytics and DevOps, to fending off cyber criminals who came knocking on their doors, all in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic. Over the year, Computer Weekly looked at how the region is embracing technology to become...