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A few weeks ago, I wrote of the continuing progress on the central Gov.uk site, which is a showcase of open technologies, as well as be...

Although the use of open source by the UK government has an unhappy history (and one that certainly isn't finished), one ray of hope ...

Last week's big announcement by the UK government was principally about procurement, detailing the new rules that will apply when g...

In a huge win for open standards, open source and the public, the long-awaited UK government definition of open standards has come down ...

I've been noting "hopeful" moves towards the wider use of open source by the UK government for so long that I daren't d...

Back in February I wrote about an exciting project from the Cabinet Office: a complete overhaul of the UK government's "citize...

Open data continues to spread around the world - here's a great recent summary of what's happening where. But simply making gove...

The draft bill of the UK's " Snooper's Charter ", which would require ISPs to record key information about every email ...

As long-standing readers will know, alongside ACTA, the other main theme of this blog over the last year or so has been the battle for the ...

In the UK there is currently a campaign and associated petition from the organization "Safety Net: Protecting Innocence Online",...

The BitTorrent protocol is an extremely efficient way of moving files around the Internet, especially big ones. That makes it highly popu...

The road to copyright reform is a long one, full of false starts and diversions. Those with good memories may recall the Gowers Review fr...

Last week we learned the UK government has precisely no evidence to support its plans for stricter copyright enforcement, which include ...

It has been a recurrent theme of these pages that the UK government is miles behind other administrations when it comes to adopting open s...

Sometimes it seems like I've written the same story about UK government IT plans again and again. You know the one: after years of empty...

As I noted on Tuesday, the UK government has been pretty much a total disaster when it comes to using open source. Indeed, it has arguably b...

Last Friday, I went along to what I thought would be a pretty routine press conference about open data - just the latest in a continuing dri...

Here's a hopeful sign: We're working to create a more open and less intrusive society. We want to restore Britain’s traditions of fr...

We all knew that Sir Tim was a total star, choosing to give away the Web rather than try to make oodles of billions from it. Some of us eve...

As I've noted many a time, the UK government has been one of the most backward when it comes to adopting open source solutions. The fact...