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European data chief prepares bid to get UK to join EU digital single market

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In an interview with Computer Weekly, Gaia-X CEO Ulrich Ahle admitted that stubborn international differences in law and technology standards have stopped foreign suppliers from joining its EU-government-funded effort to build the software infrastructure, called a dataspace, for a digital European single market. Connecting to global dataflows is vital for his scheme. As he spoke,…

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The importance of getting everyone involved in the diversity drive

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Thank you for joining! Access your Pro+ Content below. June 2024 At a Computer Weekly diversity in tech event, more than 100 experts from the tech and employment sectors shared their ideas for improving diversity in the technology industry. Download the full report here. Table Of Contents Speed up the move to a more equitable…

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Post Office bosses misled subpostmasters a day before IT project problems were exposed

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The Post Office’s most senior executives misled subpostmasters over progress on its IT project to replace the controversial Horizon system a day before Computer Weekly revealed the project required £1bn funding and had been labelled “unachievable” by government auditors. The Post Office’s claims that it has been working closely with the people who run its…

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Uncomfortable truth about agile transformations

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Over the past few months, I’ve worked with an experienced clinical psychologist and a PhD-trained research team including a psychologist and an academic behavioural scientist to understand what separates the best-performing teams from those that struggle. Research shows that 81% of business decision-makers in the UK and 89% in the US are concerned about the…

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Fujitsu cuts half of UK-based Oracle practice team

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Fujitsu is making job cuts in its UK-based Oracle Practice as the company attempts to reduce costs and increase competitiveness amid the fallout of the Post Office scandal it played a part in. The move comes after the Japanese IT giant told UK staff in April that about 100 sales, pre-sales and logistics jobs were…

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NHS services at major London hospitals disrupted by cyber attack

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NHS services at London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College hospitals and other sites in the capital have been disrupted, and a major incident declared, after a cyber attack hit partner Synnovis – which provides laboratory and diagnostic services to NHS sites across several London boroughs. The incident appears to have been first detected…

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Invasive tracking ‘endemic’ on sensitive support websites

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Dozens of university, charity and policing websites designed to help people get support for serious issues like sexual abuse, addiction or mental health are inadvertently collecting and sharing site visitors’ sensitive data with advertisers.   A variety of tracking tools embedded on these sites – including Meta Pixel and Google Analytics – mean that when a…

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Subpostmasters consider legal action against government in pursuit of financial redress

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Subpostmasters fighting for financial redress for the suffering inflicted upon them by the Post Office will resort to legal action against the government within months if the stalemate continues. Two decades after some had their lives upturned by the Post Office, and following a huge court victory in 2019, many are still without fair financial…

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Executive interview: Richard Wazacz, CEO, Travelex

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Richard Wazacz is a tech-savvy chief executive. With a strong background in digital businesses, he took up the challenge of leading foreign exchange specialist Travelex in June 2022 as the company looked to transform and grow in the post-Covid age. As CEO of a data-rich finance business, Wazacz is interested in how technology can help…

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Post Office chair was aware of Horizon concerns from day one but failed to act

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The Post Office’s former chair learned of concerns about Horizon almost immediately after joining in 2011, yet failed to challenge the organisation’s line that the system was robust. Alice Perkins chaired the Post Office for about four years from July 2011 – a period when it was defending the Horizon system’s reliability amid challenges from…

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