Where is the UK’s digital strategy? While the devolved nations press on with their digital plans, the UK government has delayed its digital strategy – yet this is too important for the economy to be put off any further.
Computer Weekly features CEO, Amanda Brock asks “Where’s the UK’s Digital Strategy?” Read More »
An almighty battle is brewing over control and sovereignty of citizens’ data As we head towards 2021, governments around the world are grappling with how to manage what will be a digital decade. If nothing else has come out of Covid-19’s collection of Track and Trace apps around…
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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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We talk to Amanda Brock, CEO of not-for-profit OpenUK about her career, the importance of open technology and of encouraging kids to learn digital skills.
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“I would say it’s a virtual environment that takes the software that used to run your systems on local servers or desktops and places it in a third-party environment where it’s hosted by experts,” says Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK and previously a lawyer working in the tech sector for the past 30 years.
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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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