The New Year Honours List 2023 was notable for its recognition of those in the technology community who promote diversity and inclusion in the economy and society. Rebecca George, already an OBE, was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to diversity in the technology profession. She has figured […]

What is RGB (red, green and blue)? RGB (red, green and blue) refers to a system representing the colors used on a digital display screen. Red, green and blue can be combined in various proportions to obtain any color in the visible spectrum. The RGB model uses 8 bits each — from 0 to 23 […]

Nearly nine out of 10 clubbers who tested a digital identification mobile app at a Surrey venue said they found it easy to use and, if given a choice, would prefer to use it over traditional, physical forms of ID such as a driver’s licence or passport. The trial was backed by the Home […]

To compete with Netflix and the other prominent networks and streaming services in the broadcast world, you need to be ahead of the curve. Viewers expect high levels of personalisation, and they are more fickle than ever before with their attention divided between the myriad of streaming platforms contending for space. To remain a […]

After 12 years with KPMG, Lisa Heneghan took on her latest and greatest challenge for the consultancy firm when she became its global chief digital officer (CDO) in October 2022. Having been UK CDO for the previous four years, she’s relishing the opportunity to now apply her experience at an international scale. “As I […]

“After quite a long time, there has been a little bit of change in gender diversity in IT,” says Bev White, CEO of recruitment specialist Nash Squared.  “In the past year, the government’s figures have shown that even more women than ever are entering a career in tech – which is amazing,” she told guests […]

Data for good is a big theme of the Computer Weekly top 10 information management stories selected for 2022. At the planetary level you can read about the use of a graph database to track space junk that is a threat to life on Earth. You can also find a bunch of Scottish schoolchildren […]

Barry Panayi, chief data and insight officer at John Lewis Partnership (JLP), has a big passion for information. So big, in fact, that he admits to being a bit of an obsessive. “I’m either one of the most boring or interesting people you’ll ever meet, depending on what you’re into,” he says. “I’m incredibly […]

For the world of business applications, the shade of Covid-19 faded somewhat in 2022, as the energy crisis, informed by the war in Ukraine, and concomitant economic crises emerged to bedevil the field instead. Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of Oracle Applications product development, gave his thoughts to Computer Weekly on what the crisis in […]

The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast team were compelled by events to deviate from their usual light-hearted approach to enterprise business-to-business technology in the first few months of the year. They discussed the war in Ukraine with the help of Computer Weekly’s security editor Alex Scroxton on a couple of podcasts, one of which […]