e-government in comment and analysis
Don't paper over cracks in the digital nation
Comment And with many government and financial services increasingly being delivered online it's serious stuff people are being excluded from - not just throwing sheep at friends on Facebook or watching videos of Mentos and exploding Coke bottles on YouTube. [23 May 2008]
People are mugs over identity theft
Comment What we need, other than the exercise of common sense, is to adopt a more universal view of the dangers of unrestricted personal information flow than simply have government warn us all to use paper shredders and regularly check our credit ratings. [08 Apr 2008]
Dear silicon.com... NHS 'savings', e-crime coppers, skills crisis?...
Comment The world has moved on in terms of how innovative projects that use technology are delivered, so must the NHS and the government. Because of the government 'Degrees for All' policy, even the dumbest, most unpromising students get rubbish degrees... [20 Mar 2008]
Malice, misuse, mistake - security dangers pile up
Comment Most recently it was the news that government departments had lost more than 1,000 laptops over the past 10 years. E is for Extradition The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. [10 Mar 2008]
ID cards are dead
Comment If you wondered what the loud screeching of brakes was in Whitehall this week it was the sound of the government attempting to halt the ID cards juggernaut and execute an almighty handbrake u-turn as the wheels started to come off and it... [07 Mar 2008]
Why no united front on cyber crime?
Comment That growing influence of serious and organised crime in cyberspace is the focus of representatives from business, finance, government and law enforcement agencies at next week's sixth international e-Crime Congress in London. [27 Feb 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday
Comment His message: move along commissioner, government intervention is not welcome. E is for Email Long tails. I arrive at the Fira early to struggle through the be-suited throng and get my seat at the big name keynotes. [13 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Tax crash, mobile driving, eBay feedback, Vista woes…
Comment I have to work for the tax money the government wrestles off me. I too did my return a little while ago, but I left it until the last day to pay the bill - i.e.to be able to pay it out of this month's pay packet rather than the overdraft. [07 Feb 2008]
What price compliance?
Comment Companies are wilting under the weight of increasingly onerous government and industry-specific regulations. Because of this - and because the burden of regulation is likely to increase with new legislation potentially covering e-disclosure rules... [07 Jan 2008]
Data encryption brought into focus by HMRC
Comment A key problem within the public sector is that of awareness - the government admitted that civil servants ignored, or possibly didn't know, their own security policies and procedures in copying database information to disk and sending it... [21 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Data security... e-learning a bit of a bore?... ID cards debate... skip vista?
Comment The government has had years to provide a convincing argument for these, and their ability to properly handle the data. No-one trusts the government to manage a huge database.there will be leaks and errors and it's a huge target for identity thieves. [13 Dec 2007]
Editor's Blog: Missing data, missing brains
Comment The loss of the data has led some to call for the scrapping of the ID card project too and reinforced a sense government technology projects will always end in failure. The argument goes something like this: imagine what catastrophes they would be... [21 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 and the public sector
Comment This includes public sector organisations trying to assess the impact of web 2.0 on political communication, e-government and internal information sharing.silicon.com Public Sector Web 2.0 can take the evolution of e-government in new directions... [11 Oct 2007]
Leader: Why security threats don't have to be taxing
Leader And HMRC also added another - and probably most significant - ingredient: disclosure.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and improve the... [09 Oct 2007]
Leader: How to put out the fires of ID fraud
Leader But the idea is the same - take any one of the ingredients away and the problem ought to go away too.silicon.com's Full Disclosure campaign - what we are asking for.silicon.com wants the government to review its data protection legislation and... [08 Oct 2007]
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