IDC Government Insights research arm has published a top 10 predictions list for 2013. The predictions are: 1. Consumerisation of IT and transformational cloud developments will continue to create more challenges than opportunities 2. ...
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Model and actress Lily Cole is to join the panel of judges for the Young Rewired State Competition, for budding young computer programmers. The competition aims to encourage young children and teenagers to team up and write their own ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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The Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published a data protection code of practice on managing the risks related to anonymisation. It explains the issues surrounding the anonymisation of personal data and its disclosure,along with ...
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The BBC is partnering with University College London(UCL)in a four-year research and development(R&D)programme to investigate the future of digital content. Over the next four years,the partnership between the BBC and UCL will focus on a ...
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As the government pushes private companies to release customer data under its Midata initiative,Computer Weekly looks at what this means for the digital economy and who stands to benefit most from this new form of"consumer empowerment". ...
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Parliament's ICT office is concluding a two-year review of whether its democratic responsibilities and technical ambitions will force it to purge Microsoft's Silverlight multimedia technology from its computer systems. As part of a root ...
The government has pumped 8m euros of new investment into funds and improvements that aim to help public bodies release data so that companies can develop commercial opportunities for that data. The investment will further enhance the ...
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The European Commission(EC)has outlined a cloud computing strategy that aims to boost European business and government productivity. The strategy,dubbed Unleashing the potential of cloud computing in Europe,aims to deliver a net gain of ...
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The NHS is working with the US government to pioneer open-data strategies in the US public sector. This was the claim of Chris Vein, deputy US chief technology officer for government innovation – working in the executive office of ...
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The Public Accounts Committee(PAC)has criticised public-sector organisations that dump raw data into the public domain insufficiently formatted to enable people and companies to analyse and make use of it. Further reading Open Data ...
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The government recently published its white paper on open data,with the newly-created Open Data User Group having met to discuss the next phase.But despite these moves,campaigners are worried that plans to create a£16bn stimulus to ...
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About 20 years ago, we were running our first data mining pilot at the large insurer I was working for at the time. I'm reminded of this project whenever I listen to the advice given in connection with big data projects. "Know what ...
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