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fromNextgov.com
1 day ago

From flashlight fixes to future-ready innovation: Why we must stop patching and start building anew

This flashlight was from the 1970s. It was heavy, dim and clunky - and yet he had invested more in the toggle switch than it would have cost to buy a brand-new, energy-efficient LED flashlight. For me, that flashlight became a metaphor for how government still approaches technology: instead of replacing outdated systems with modern, efficient ones, we keep bolting on fixes, hoping the old framework will keep up.
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fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago

Questions over size of government's legacy IT estate pose AI adoption issues | Computer Weekly

Whitehall's adoption of AI risks being hampered by reliance on unknown legacy IT and mixed visibility of government tech spending under the Procurement Act.
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fromTheregister
3 weeks ago

ONS data-sharing dream ended with three rival platforms

ONS's £240.8m programme failed to integrate government data, funding general tech while legacy IT persisted, leaving fragmented platforms and prompting Treasury funding cuts.
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