Bryan Glick

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Bryan Glick

Wednesday 2 April sees the latest meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on digital identity. It’s more exciting than it sounds – honest! APPGs have no power or governmental role – they are essentially well-meaning talking shops where parliamentarians can mix with the private sector and lobbyists to share information and learn about issues that may affect policy or legislation. The meeting about digital ID however, could get a bit heated.

2 months ago | computerweekly.com | Bryan Glick

In September last year, Computer Weekly sat down with three of the most senior and influential digital leaders in the UK government to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead under a new Labour administration. The three – Rich Corbridge, chief digital information officer at DWP, Gina Gill, chief strategy officer at the Central Digital & Data Office (CDDO), and Craig Suckling, government chief data officer, were largely optimistic, but realistic about the difficulties too.

Feb 4, 2025 | computerweekly.com | Bryan Glick

Digital identity in the UK Once upon a time, the government had a digital identity tool called Gov.uk Verify that it hoped would become the “gold standard” for identity verification across the private and public sectors. Verify was pretty rubbish, and was finally scrapped in 2023 after spending about a quarter of a billion pounds.

Jan 24, 2025 | computerweekly.com | Bryan Glick

Generative AI Another historic barrier to digital progress has been data sharing, and here, too, Labour envisages changes, promising to mandate the publication of application programming interfaces (APIs) for digital systems – ironically, an idea first mooted by Lane Fox in her 2010 review. Exposing APIs will also help another plank of the new DSIT approach – the use of generative AI (GenAI) to support the work of civil servants.

Jan 20, 2025 | computerweekly.com | Bryan Glick

The UK government has announced wide-ranging plans to overhaul the way technology is funded, implemented and acquired across the public sector to accelerate the development of digital services to benefit citizens. The Government Digital Service (GDS) will be expanded, a new commercial function is being established, and HM Treasury is to “experiment” with more modern ways of budgeting for the introduction and ongoing spend on technology.