Digital Career Guidance for the Age of AIWhy is ICT seen as a legacy industry rather than central to a technology enabled world? Because too much time is spent claiming that increased respect for the professional silos of the past will ... Oct 05 26October 05, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
The evolving demand for digital skills: 1965 - 2025 and beyondDigital skills have evolved From technical to applications and AI-assisted. But where are those to handle the tsunami of fraud that threatens confidence in the on line let alone to protect children ... Oct 05 26October 05, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
Soft Skills are hard without a common languageThe lack of a standardised skills languages, shared between Government, employers and workseekers has been identified as a prime cause of skills gaps in general. Their absence leads to ... Oct 04 26October 04, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
Draft Brief for Workshop to Update UCAS Website on Digital Career ChoicesDemand for coding skills is in decline but demand for systems thinkers to use digital technology to improve productivity and address the problems of today and tomorrow, from on-line safety and ... Sep 11 26September 11, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
Where does the rewiring of Central Government leave Cyber/Digital Skills?Will the moving digital skills to DCMS and AI skills to Number 10 make it easier or harder to build bridges and addressing shortages (quality and relevance as well as numbers) across the divide ... Jul 26 26July 26, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
Updating Cyber/Digital Careers Guidance for the Age of Augmented IntelligenceWe need create better linkages between cyber/digital and mainstream skills and employment policy, from access to careers advice and guidance in schools, through enabling NEETs to 'prove' their ... Jul 23 26July 23, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
Using Augmented Intelligence to restore confidence in the On-line WorldAs predicted twenty years ago (paper for the 50th Anniversary of the LEO computer) trust in the on-line world has collapsed under a landslide of falsehood and misinformation. But at the time that ... Apr 17 26April 17, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
UK Digital Identity Policy - Issues, Choices and Questions in 850 wordsHow do we ensure that UK ID policy is effective and meaningful? 850 words, with 14 key actions and 12 foundational questions that need to be answered before moving forward on the introduction of a ... Mar 17 26March 17, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
What is the objective of the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill?Organisations need to demonstrate not just how much they are spending to improve their security but that they are spending it effectively. They should report annually to regulators on how their ... Jan 25 26January 25, 2026Article at Computer Weekly
Will 2026 be the year that Augmented Intelligence Trumps Artificial IgnoranceForty years ago I forecast that the impact of machine learning would be that book-learning and logical reasoning would lose status just as literacy did when everyone could read and write. Two years ... Dec 30 25December 30, 2025Article at Computer Weekly
Changing the course of UK skills policy as opposed to shuffling the deckchairsThe rise of AI now challenges the priority given to on academic skills . Covid Lockdown and its consequence have increased pressures to accelerate change to improve national productivity by ... Aug 05 25August 05, 2025Article at Computer Weekly
Cyber Skills Today for Economic Growth TomorrowCyber security is a critical enabler of economic growth, fostering a stable environment for innovation and investment, according to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: policy statement that ... Jun 23 25June 23, 2025Article at Computer Weekly
Rebuilding Social Resilience in the On-line WorldInternet access has plateaued since the surge during covid . Digital inclusion programmes need to be complimented by people contact to coax the most vulnerable on-line and/or enable neighbours and ... Jun 18 25June 18, 2025Article at Computer Weekly
Relaunching Neighbourhood Watch for the Internet AgeNeighbourhood Watch became became by far the UK's largest community support movement during Covid - albeit cover is patchy. Across England and Wales it embraces 9% of household but that ranges from ... Mar 04 25March 04, 2025Article at Computer Weekly
Your three point plan for Safer Internet DayThe world of your childs smart phone combines the thrills and spills of the circus, fairground, playground, wild west and forest sauvage . It can be a very scary place without you to hold their hand. Feb 10 25February 10, 2025Article at Computer Weekly
Will Skills England be allowed to change the course of the Government's inherited policy Titanic?Despite fine words the needs of employers and student appear set to come third, behind the requirements of funding and regulatory hierarchies dating back to 1917 and of the Mayoral Combined ... Feb 07 25February 07, 2025Article at Computer Weekly
Relaunch of the Norwood Community Safety PartnershipNeighbours by chance, working together by choice: the relaunch of Neighbourhood Watch in Lambeth. Approximately 6% of the 20 million households in England and Wales are signed up to Neighbourhood ... Jan 05 25January 05, 2025Article at Computer Weekly
Draft CSP Guidance: Emergency and Non-Emergency Reporting and ContactsThis is the draft guidance page on Reporting for Community Safety Partnership Clusters in London. Please send comments on errors and omissions to me for forwarding. Similarly please make contact ... Oct 19 24October 19, 2024Article at Computer Weekly
Cyberfirst needs more than a change of gearDiscussing the intersection between politics and the information society. Latest Blog Posts Midsomer Murders: the Broadband Killings - time for a remake Levelling up Access to Skills and Jobs; Ten Points for your Manifesto See More Related Content… Aug 09 24August 09, 2024Article at Computer Weekly
Midsomer Murders: the Broadband Killings - time for a remakeThe Digital Manifesto call by the Mobile Network Operators “Failing to plan: Planning to Fail” highlights the impossibility of delivering the Labour promise of ubiquitous 5G cover by 2030 without reform of the planning system. The Conservative… Jun 17 24June 17, 2024Article at Computer Weekly