travels in Japan

Just back from an enjoyable (first) trip to Japan, a wonderful mix of high-tech and traditional culture. And a rich and varied feast for the

creative collaboration

Digital artist Cynthia Beth Rubin is artist in residence at the Menden-Deuer Oceanography lab. I’ve long been a fan of collaborations that span ‘traditional’ boundaries,

IT, tax avoidance and the total cost of ownership

The recent interest in “off payroll” taxation of individuals looks like it’s about to be trumped by the much more significant issue of “offshore” company taxation.

cybercrud and related issues

Paul Brown recently posted to the Computer Arts Society a copy of the 1970 catalogue “Software. Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art“. It includes

digital government, open architecture and innovation: why public sector IT will never be the same again

UPDATED 07.09.2012: see postscript The paper I co-authored with Mark Thompson is now online – “Digital government, open architecture, and innovation: Why public sector IT will

“enterprise” IT – out of touch and increasingly irrelevant?

So okay … I know it’s been asked before, but it’s not going to stop me asking it again anyway: is the traditional ‘enterprise’ IT

data privacy visualised (6 years on….)

It’s over 6 years since I blogged about how the principles of Creative Commons might be applied to privacy and data protection, particularly to help

more detail on the draft principles for the UK identity assurance scheme

In my recent post draft principles for the UK identity assurance programme I said if people were interested, I could post more detail of the thoughts that

draft principles for the UK identity assurance programme

The snappily named “Identity Assurance Programme Privacy and Consumer Group” has been busy for some time now, debating and distilling a set of privacy-based principles

whilst not blogging …

… I have remained busy writing elsewhere, including the following: “Platform alteration“, CIO March 2012 “G-Cloud is open for business“, CIO February 2012 “Digital defaulters

the disruptive cloud

The recent announcement that Amazon has created a secure web space for the US government is hardly going to make anyone fall off their chair

cyberspace and the riots

A variety of media, politicians and commentators have rushed to blame social media such as Twitter and Facebook for helping fuel the recent riots in