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Christian Engström
AS Profile He honed his political skills as a member of the Swedish Liberal People's Party and with eight years services in local politics before the founding of the Pirate Party in 2006. The issue of piracy has never been more... [08 Oct 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile Yet another dubbed it "a truly disruptive technology", adding it "could impact and change many areas of business, society, politics, economics etc". It's been a spectacular year for Twitter, the microblogging site that... [29 Sep 2009]
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Business Risks Associated With Merging IT
White Paper The main issues that organizations face when merging their IT systems include maintaining business as usual, data migration (and the subsequent security concerns), compliance and the politics involved. [22 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.08.09
Round-Up Camp one - the keen beans, eager for promotion who can't bear to miss out on office politics and who check their email every day, even while at the beach (or in the caravan). Ah, the lazy days of summer in the IT... [21 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up But no, Cameron wasn't finished building his new reputation as the bad boy of British politics. Twitter is known for its brevity so it was inevitable that Whitehall's guidelines for departmental microblogging would... [31 Jul 2009]
BBC is taking tech seriously, so give it a break!
Comment Just this week we witnessed similar levels of outrage when the BBC announced it will allow some of its news video content - focusing on UK politics, business, health and science and technology - to be used on the... [31 Jul 2009]
Inspire creativity at the office - here's how
Comment Random Walk theory is a funny little idea drawn from the study of complex systems like flocks of birds, politics, even society itself. The 21st century office needs to inspire creativity more than mere productivity. [28 Jul 2009]
Google to launch netbook operating system next year
News Another bit of intrigue comes with the corporate politics. The company announced Google Chrome OS on its blog Tuesday night, saying netbooks from unnamed manufacturers will include it in the second half of 2010. [08 Jul 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up Their tweets reveal the fascinating behind-the-scenes story of politics today, with searing comments straight to the public and unmediated by spin doctors, including "Take part in our parking survey" and "Back home in... [03 Jul 2009]
The Economics of Information Security
White Paper The new field provides valuable insights not just into "Security" topics (such as bugs, spam, phishing, and law enforcement strategy) but into more general areas such as the design of peer-to-peer systems, the optimal balance of effort... [30 Jun 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Iran, tweets and e-democracy
Comment Technology always changes societies, and now it is changing politics and governments - faster than ever before! Compiled at the IoD in London and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service on the same day [29 Jun 2009]
Skydiving and kendo: What CIOs do when they aren't at work…
News Other degrees held by CIOs include MBAs, but also degrees in Business Administration, European Politics, Economics and Languages, Econometrics, mechanical engineering, mathematics and English Literature. [10 Jun 2009]
Tania Howarth
CIO Profile She has a BSc in European Politics, Economics and Languages from Manchester University. Tania Howarth has been CIO for frozen food business Birds Eye Iglo since 2007 when it was spun off from Unilever. [03 Jun 2009]
Innovative Public-Private Partnership Helps Guatemala Equip More Than Two-Thirds of Its Teachers for the Future
White Paper Improving the way public services are conceived and delivered is the perennial challenge of politics. More and more, governments are turning to technology to make public services accessible and citizen-centric in order... [30 May 2009]
Are Men 'Cleverer' Than Women?: Deconstructing the Dogma of Female Intellectual Inferiority
White Paper This paper analyses discourses surrounding gender and the politics of Intelligence Quotient (IQ). It takes the position that the content of the news not always constitute factual account of the world but instead it... [01 May 2009]
