Excerpt from the article: Despite its operatic acronym, ARIA is nothing to do with divas. Rather, the initials stand for Advanced Research and Invention Agency, a new office set up by the UK Government to lead on technology development and scientific breakthroughs. The aim for this new organisation is to think through problems in new […]
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Excerpt from the article: In just a fortnight, the New Year will begin with the clear understanding across all governments that this is already a digital decade. As consumers, we utilise products and services created, distributed and consumed through software. As citizens, we share our data with governments and businesses alike. If nothing else has
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Excerpt from the article: We are at a crossroads for technology and politics. Charlene Barshefsky, a former US trade representative writing in the Financial Times, has warned of an “incipient techno-nationalism”, which she sees emerging in Europe, and worries that EU digital protectionism risks damaging ties with the US. At the same time Angela Merkel and Emmanuel
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Excerpt from the article: Max Schrems has spent the last decade (give or take) as a young man on a mission. His aim has been to force attention on the issue of US surveillance and European data privacy. Every day, data is shipped to the US or passes over US servers as part of the
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Privacy activist Max Schrem’s court victory creates an ideal opportunity for open source and open data approaches, says OpenUK’s Amanda Brock Max Schrems has won his case, leading to EU-US Privacy Shield being declared as invalid by the Court of Justice of the EU. However, standard contractual clauses remain acceptable, as long as the companies
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Excerpt from article: “Yes of course it’s perfectly true that it would be great to have an app, but no country in the world has a functioning track and trace app,” Boris Johnson claimed last Tuesday in the House of Commons. Keir Starmer calmly pointed out that Germany has precisely such an app. This prompts
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Excerpt from the article: Matt Hancock has confirmed that a government contact tracing app will be trialled on the Isle of White from today. The app is designed to notify users that they have been in contact with actual or suspected cases of Covid-19, allowing them to follow enhanced social distancing and other appropriate actions
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Open technology forms the basis of the UK’s thriving knowledge economy, but we’ve been slow to acknowledge this and capitalise on our strength in numbers
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Politics and government can feel far removed from our day-to-day activities. But in recent times there has been a shift, particularly with the perceived need for governments to regulate the digital economy, whether that relates to our outputs and the right to create them or taxing the big technology companies to keep us safe. Government
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How open source can live up to its name in a post-Brexit world Amanda Brock, CEO at OpenUK and keynote speaker at Tech Leaders Summit, explores how open source can thrive in a post-Brexit world
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