IT hinders UK public sector response to pandemic
In all of Europe, the UK’s public services sector experienced the biggest shift to remote working, during the Covid-19 pandemic. They were also the ones most critical of the IT solutions that were supposed to help them do their job, saying that instead, it hindered their efforts. Polling 3,500 public servants all over Europe, BearingPoint found that almost two thirds …
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The UK public doesn’t trust algorithms
British citizens don’t think algorithms are a good way for businesses to make decisions on them, a new survey argues. Polling 2076 adults for the report, BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, found more than half (53 percent) of UK adults don’t trust business algorithms, regardless of if it’s about welfare, education or anything else. The percentage of people trusting …
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Using public health frameworks to explain cybersecurity
For years, governments have reported pandemics and cyber attacks as the top priority risks facing their nations. The first has already come to pass. COVID-19’s rapid viral transmission has shown all too well how infectious disease can create turmoil on a global level and major socioeconomic damage. But what about this second enormous risk? Even as we continue to combat …
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