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When IT Meets Politics
Discussing the intersection between politics and the information society.
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Will 2026 be the year that Augmented Intelligence Trumps Artificial Ignorance
- Winsafe Ltd 30 Dec 2025 -
Warlords v Merchants: who really controls ID and Information Policy
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Dec 2025 -
The politics of cyber security and identity: Warlords versus Merchants (first published 2011)
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Dec 2025
Forty years ago I forecast that the impact of machine learning would be that book-learning and logical reasoning would lose status just as literacy did when everyone could read and write. Two years ...
Sooner or later we will have to interface with the global market leaders, including for ID systems and the UK will be a more prosperous and secure place to live, work and do business if we do so ...
The current hype in support of additional US and UK government spend on cybersecurity has prompted me to return to my "Warlords versus Merchants" theme. It is not that I do not believe that ...
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Changing the course of UK skills policy as opposed to shuffling the deckchairs
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Aug 2025 -
Cyber Skills Today for Economic Growth Tomorrow
- Winsafe Ltd 23 Jun 2025 -
Rebuilding Social Resilience in the On-line World
- Winsafe Ltd 18 Jun 2025 -
Relaunching Neighbourhood Watch for the Internet Age
- Winsafe Ltd 04 Mar 2025 -
Your three point plan for Safer Internet Day
- Winsafe Ltd 10 Feb 2025 -
Will Skills England be allowed to change the course of the Government's inherited policy Titanic?
- Winsafe Ltd 07 Feb 2025 -
Relaunch of the Norwood Community Safety Partnership
- Winsafe Ltd 05 Jan 2025
The rise of AI now challenges the priority given to on academic skills . Covid Lockdown and its consequence have increased pressures to accelerate change to improve national productivity by ...
Cyber security is a critical enabler of economic growth, fostering a stable environment for innovation and investment, according to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill: policy statement that ...
Internet access has plateaued since the surge during covid . Digital inclusion programmes need to be complimented by people contact to coax the most vulnerable on-line and/or enable neighbours and ...
Neighbourhood Watch became became by far the UK's largest community support movement during Covid - albeit cover is patchy. Across England and Wales it embraces 9% of household but that ranges from ...
The world of your childs smart phone combines the thrills and spills of the circus, fairground, playground, wild west and forest sauvage . It can be a very scary place without you to hold their hand.
Despite fine words the needs of employers and student appear set to come third, behind the requirements of funding and regulatory hierarchies dating back to 1917 and of the Mayoral Combined ...
Neighbours by chance, working together by choice: the relaunch of Neighbourhood Watch in Lambeth. Approximately 6% of the 20 million households in England and Wales are signed up to Neighbourhood ...
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NORWOOD (Pilot) COMMUNITY SAFETY PARTNERSHIP
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Oct 2024 -
Draft CSP Guidance: Emergency and Non-Emergency Reporting and Contacts
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Oct 2024 -
London Draft CSP Guidance on Safety, Safeguarding and Crime Prevention
- Winsafe Ltd 19 Oct 2024 -
Cyberfirst needs more than a change of gear
- Winsafe Ltd 09 Aug 2024 -
Midsomer Murders: the Broadband Killings - time for a remake
- Winsafe Ltd 17 Jun 2024
This is a generic model for a local "community safety partnership" building based on guidance for, and practical experience with and Safer Neighbourhood Panels, Neighbourhood Watch Groups, Patient ...
This is the draft guidance page on Reporting for Community Safety Partnership Clusters in London. Please send comments on errors and omissions to me for forwarding. Similarly please make contact ...
This is the draft guidance page for Community Safety Partnership Clusters in London. Please send comments on errors and omissions to me for forwarding. Similarly please make contact if you would ...
Instead of establishing a new organisation, Cyberfirst should be restructured to work locally and nationally through the Cyber Security Council and existing mainstream on-line safety, safeguarding ...
The choice between cheap ubiquitous broadband today (with overhead spaghetti between cottages and femtos on every pole) and expensive, limited access, underground connectivity tomorrow had set ...