Trusted digital identity, digital wallets, and verifiable credentials provide an ideal catalyst to rethink, simplify, and improve how both the public and private sectors access and use high quality da...

I asked Google’s Gemini to use the Digital Government Archives—a record of UK digital government initiatives since around 1994—to answer the question “what are the top lessons governmen…

Lessons learned for government from UK and international experience for developing digital identity services across public services.

The prime minister is missing a simple trick in his campaign to revive high streets: enforcing the basic laws of doing business

Here’s a brief summary of a few developments that caught my eye this week—from devolution to artificial intelligence, and from machinery of government changes to digital identity. Devolution …

Andy Burnham has promised to deliver the "biggest rebalancing of power our country has seen" as our new prime minister, with power taken away from Westminster and redistributed to all parts of the UK.

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Digital government services are now part of how people apply for support, manage identity documents, access benefits and complete essential public-service tasks

UK governments have spent over three decades telling us that technology will modernise the public sector, cut costs, improve services for citizens and businesses, and boost productivity. Yet despite s...

I’ve finally got around to pulling together various AI-related resources formerly scattered across my site, embedded in Parliamentary submissions, and explored in various media articles and m…

The Isle of Wight is geographically bounded, with three monitored ferry gateways. Its population of 140,000 is served by a single local authority and a defined NHS footprint. It is, in effect, a conta...

The government has announced its much anticipated consultation on digital identity (ID). There’s obviously going to be a lot of issues that need to be considered over coming months, but one p…

A few months ago, the National Audit Office reminded us that a large chunk of central government IT is legacy. It’s one reason why departments still force citizens to repeatedly provide the s…

Ecommerce giant says there has been a ‘trend of incidents’ linked to ‘Gen-AI assisted changes’

interview: Crims 'will do what gets them their objective easiest and fastest,' Microsoft threat intel boss tells The Reg

A few months ago, the National Audit Office reminded us that a large chunk of central government IT is legacy. It’s one reason why departments still force citizens to repeatedly provide the s…

UK governments have spent over thirty years attempting to deliver a radical “digital transformation” of the public sector. Despite good progress in places, a significant mismatch remains between th…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to grab a lot of headlines. It’s a broad field, from deep, narrow AI of the kind that might assist an NHS radiotherapist in their work, to the more pred…

Highlights of a few recent developments that caught my eye this week, several related to digital identity. UK digital ID sector warns of legal action The UK government announcement that the upcomin…

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We are concerned by the possibility of some council elections in May being postponed, and even more by any further postponement to those which already had been deferred from 2025.

The first in a series of articles based on the Second Edition of my book Fracture: The collision between technology and democracy—and how we fix it. “You would think that governments would pl…

I thought it might be useful, or at least entertaining, to see what an AI tool made of the new paper from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change on Public-Service Reform in the Age of AI. So I …

Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. They are the mechanisms through which complex societies

Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary Josh Simons to become digital ID minister as government prepares to launch public consultation on the scheme.

The Cambridge Journal of Law, Politics, and Art has published my article Digital Government at the Crossroads. It explores the need for a radical rethink and reset to ‘digital government’ initiativ…

We’re at war whether we know it or not. Hybrid warfare surrounds us, hiding in plain sight. But I’m not sure anyone wants to hear that as we emerge from the shadow of Covid. Perhaps the …

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, sharing previously untold stories and reflecting on a landmark project that se...