With UK governments since 2010 not always prioritising energy efficiency, even reducing funding measures with full support from high-profile members of parliament, one might wonder whether the criticality of energy efficiency has been overemphasised. Energy efficiency is crucial for driving, among other things, sustainability goals, as most cloud and datacentre services providers readily agree. […]

Digital fraud and risk teams seem to be locked in a perpetual game of catch-up. Every five to 10 years, new technology comes along which gives us an advantage, until the hackers and fraudsters evolve themselves – and so the cycle repeats. Now they stand at another crossroads. Half (46%) of global organisations say […]

The Ukraine conflict has significantly worsened the global energy situation by straining the supply of gas, a crucial resource at the moment. The UK has the highest household energy costs in all of Europe. To keep households warm, and for electricity, the UK government has relied on gas for decades. With the price instability […]

Lawyers representing 10 claimants who are challenging the lawfulness of the National Crime Agency’s role in bringing prosecutions based on messages from the EncroChat encrypted phone network had put forward ‘incredible’ claims, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal heard. Jonathan Kinnear KC, representing the National Crime Agency (NCA), told the court that lawyers representing 10 claimants […]

This year has seen the Middle East region host one of the world’s biggest sporting events for the first time, when the FIFA World Cup arrived in Qatar in November. Not only did the oil-rich nation face massive construction challenges, with stadiums and other physical infrastructure needed to host such a large and prestigious […]

The focus for technology in the NHS during 2022 was all about accelerating digital transformation, after the advances made in the previous two years in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. That hasn’t been helped by the wider turbulence in the UK government, with three prime ministers and a revolving door to the role of […]

It’s been a turbulent year for the UK government. Three prime ministers, four chancellors, and a whole bunch of Cabinet reshuffles made it difficult for anyone in the public sector digital, data and technology profession to get a handle on policy, strategy and delivery. But as 2023 arrives, many of the same old challenges […]

The past 12 months has seen cloud computing projects in the finance sector increase at a pace, and the slow trickle of previous years is now a solid flow, with one bank having moved 80% of its systems to the cloud. This rapid move to the cloud has raised the question of how much longer […]

Dutch universities are known the world over for their academic research in IT fields, and in this review of Benelux IT articles from 2022, we take a look at two examples. A PhD project at the Netherlands Forensics Institute (NFI) is part of a project, known as Uncover, to help law enforcement agencies intercept […]

If IT leaders thought they might have a year of consolidation and a chance to catch their breath, after the accelerated digital transformations they led through the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2022 showed they had even more to come. Boardroom expectations of IT have been reset by the experiences of the previous two […]