On Tuesday 14 December, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on the draft Online Safety Bill published its report after several months of scrutiny of the Government's draft legislation.
The UK Government has published its new National Cyber Strategy which sets out how the UK will solidify its position as a global cyber power.
The Adam Smith Institute's Head of Research, Matthew Lesh, has responded to the Joint Committee on the Draft Online Safety Bill's report
The NHS seeks to monitor and control diversity and equality through a programme known as the Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) - it is based on a series of statistical indicators pertaining to outcomes between white and non-white minority groups. However, as the Director of the Statistics and Policy Research Programme at Civitas, Richard Norrie, argues, closer inspection of those indicators reveals they do not withstand methodological scrutiny'.
techUK has published a new discussion paper exploring the challenges facing UK high streets and how technology and digitisation can help.
Help the environment, farmers and consumers by adopting GMOs as well as gene editing, says think-tank
We are approaching the end of the year 2021 with great news for the European tech sector. According to the latest Atomico report on the State of European Tech 2021, Europe is solidly positioned as a global tech player in 2021, with a record $100 billion in capital invested, 98 new unicorns, and the greatest start-up pipeline in history, now on par with the US.
The UK's National Living Wage (NLW) has increased wages not only for those who would otherwise have earned less than that, but also a wider group.
Christopher Snowdon, Head of Lifestyle Economics at free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, commented on New Zealand's plans to ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation
In a series of eight reports as part of the Build the Future We Need campaign, techUK examined how we can harness digital innovation to build a better future in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On 8th December, in the House of Commons, the Government took a welcome step forward in the fight against modern day slavery.
Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, commented on the GDP data published today by the ONS
Russell Gunson, Director of IPPR Scotland responded to the Draft Scotland Budget
How did the critical Get help with technology service come about? Rachel Hope, Deputy director for Teacher services, and Shaf Gunton, Programme delivery manager, talk to Adaobi Ifeachor about the complexities and obstacles they faced and what's next for this essential service.
A new resource that enables blind and partially sighted people to hear' the Universe has been launched to ensure everyone can be inspired by the wonders of space.
The winners of a 36 million competition to fund innovative R&D projects across the UK to develop open RAN technology have been revealed by DCMS.
WTO's Informal Working Group on Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) launches the Trade4MSMEs platform, a tool aimed at helping small companies find trade-related information that improves their ability to trade internationally. The platform will also help policymakers design measures tailored to the needs of small companies.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin KCB ADC, Chief of the Defence Staff Speech to the Royal United Services Institute
Julian Jessop, Economics Fellow at free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, said: Even without a full national lockdown, the additional Covid restrictions apparently being considered in Whitehall could easily knock 2 per cent off GDP - costing the UK economy 4 billion a month - and force the taxpayer to stump up billions more to prevent a new wave of bankruptcies and job losses.
The Prisons Strategy White Paper, published on the 7 December 2021, sets out a new plan to deliver the biggest prison-building programme in more than 100 years - creating the right conditions to reform and rehabilitate offenders and ultimately cut crime, keeping streets safe.
Ahead of the techUK Digital Ethics Summit on 8 December, Hetan Shah, Chief Executive at The British Academy, outlines the role purposeful business will play in the implementation of digital and data ethics.
The average working-age woman in the UK earned 40% less than her male counterpart in 2019. This is because, among 20- to 55-year-olds not in education, long-term sick or retired:
A major new IPPR think tank report warns that a decline in political trust is undermining liberal democracy in the UK. In 1944, just one in three British people (35 per cent) saw politicians as merely out for themselves', while by 2014 that number was 48 per cent and in new IPPR polling conducted last weekend, 63 per cent said they share this view.
Blog posted by: Adam McCullough, Principal ITSM Architect, 07 December 2021.
Sue Daley, techUK Director of Technology and Innovation, shares her reflections on the progress made since our first Digital Ethics Summit in 2017.
