Lack of co-operation on cyber skills costs London more than membership of the EU costs the UK
I have been asked to change the headline of my blog yesterday on the case for supporting a London Cyber Security Skills...
Ofcom consults on plans to tackle the UK Communications Confusopoly
Ofcom has just published its Proposed Annual Plan for 2016/17 with a deadline of 26th February 2016 for responses. It has three clear objectives:
- Promote...
Could London match Singapore with unsubsidised fibre to the flat?
Singapore and Hongkong are London's most dangerous global financial services rivals and also have the best big city broadband. What do we and they they have in common? The high proportion of residents who live and work in housing and office complexes which are cheap to fibre up - provided this is...
Transforming broadband across the UK – not just Bristol
The transformation of the UK broadband market over the past year is illustrated by presence of BT,
How does the UK move to a high resilience, secure and ubiquitous, post-internet, any-to-any “mesh”?
A couple of days ago I said that the importance of the
Surviving the post Heartbleed Cyber Security Skills Crunch
IT users and suppliers, particularly those in financial services and its suppliers are about to be hit by an IT Skills shortfall akin to that during the run up to Y2K: for similar reasons. A surge in demand for skills in short supply is hitting an industry which has not recruited sufficient...
DCMS to Move to Treasury (Building) as part of downsizing …
Earlier this week I heard a rumour that DCMS was moving to Treasury as part of a Government reshuffle. It sounded odd that such a profound change could have been planned without any leaks. My "source" has now traced the source of the rumour - to an
What is not different about the Internet?
I enjoyed Government 2010 on Thursday despite the tunnel vision of enthusiasts who believe the Internet changes everything but will nonetheless be much the same in 2015 as it is today. That may, unfortunately, be...