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The day the Internet Stopped

Intra-UK communications are similarly vulnerable, with most of us connected to the Internet via a single point of failure, the local BT exchange through which all those unbundled lines and many ... → Read More

Is Brexit an existential threat to the new (including digital) Establishment?

The Brexit vote came as a surprise The Establishment will stop fighting when it works out how to turn it to advantage. → Read More

Minister tells Google and Facebook to obey law or be taxed.

Perhaps he was saying "co-operate with the CONTEST programme or see your corporate tax-planning e-mails published in a Sunday Times special." → Read More

No "end of jobs": debunking the cyclical AI/Robotics hype

The practical harnessing and application of AI and Robotics, beyond what was achievable decades ago, requires a supply of technician level skills (including statistics and security by design) that ... → Read More

Breaking Open the Graduate Digital Careers Ghetto

How do we enable digital employers to harness the native talent available and how do we prepare that talent for the opportunities available. → Read More

Skills for the world of the future: AI, Big Data, Robotics etc.

The future is multi-career lives, requiring the core educational skills and attitudes to rapidly acquire new vocational/technical skills as needed. The challenge to FE/HE is profound. More money ... → Read More

The IT Policy "Elephants in the Room"

Ten of the really BIG tech issues of today and tomorrow that no-one wants to discuss. → Read More

Removing Digital from the Pointless Ponzi Skills scheme

We need to ease the pain of transitioning to high quality, degree-linked, digital apprenticeships for the skills in current and future demand: "get three years ahead in your career not a debt and a ... → Read More

Is Fake News Destroying Democracy?

The issues of fake news are not new and democracy has always been a fragile flower, not a vigorous weed. → Read More

Manifestos for Skills and Jobs or for Debt and Unemployment

Creating more world class graduate and post graduate apprenticeships is more important than enabling unskilled students to graduate with less debt. → Read More

Exiling hate preachers to the dark corners of the Internet is a win win strategy

Those who stand in the way of cleaning up the Internet by claiming to defend freedom of speach and secure encryption do their cause no good. → Read More

Looking behind the Digital Manifesto Bingo

What do the Party Manifesto commitments mean for the IT industry? Part 1 → Read More

Royal Mail Plans to work with Post Office to recapture Internet Delivery from White Van man

Royal mail and the Post Office appear about to work together to rebuild an integrated local delivery service for the Internet Age. Will they also provide the trusted, to-your-doorstep and/or ... → Read More

Ransomware plague exposes irrelevance of GDPR

Data availability and integrity based on robust authentication and encryption over resilient networks are more important than privacy. → Read More

Exploiting "Fake News"

The current ransomware scare should be used to change the priorities of GCHQ and the NCSC so as the make good use of the powers they have just acquired. → Read More

An incident waiting to happen

The involvement of GCHQ in the NHS ransomware incidence marks a turning point in the first against cybercrime → Read More

Using girl-power to build a post-Brexit Digital British Empire

We should build our Post-Brexit industrial strategy round making good use of the digital talent of the other half of the population. → Read More

Can Google and Facebook clean up on-line advertising in time?

Google and Facebook need to lead the way towards auditable algorithms before loss of trust destroys their advertising funded business models → Read More

Funding Full Fibre Networks

How does the UK fund a full fibre infrastructure if BT is unable and/or unwilling to pay the price? → Read More

Is the Internet leading us back to 1930s protectionism?

The mass market adoption of the Internet is now leading to 1930s protectionism not internationalisation → Read More