Experts question security of online vote to pick Tory leader
Technology should not be used as it is unproven for such high-stakes elections, one security specialist says
January 2019
A former hunger striker writes: help give Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe hope
Letters: Fifty-five years ago, I was part of a hunger strike in apartheid South Africa, writes Beverley Naidoo
June 2018
Commons people: why parliament's 'evidence week' is a national victory
Tracey Brown
Parliament is supposed to be alive to shifting public concerns and new sources of information. But it doesn’t always work like that
November 2016
Shortcuts
Obama for PM and compulsory Harry Potter: rejected government e-petitions
Since 2011, parliamentary time has been put aside for petitions – but some great British grievances are dismissed before anyone has the chance to sign up
July 2016
Brexit: no second EU referendum despite e-petition, says government
Statement in response to petition signed by more than 4.1m people says referendum was ‘once in a generation’ vote
April 2016
E-stonia: the country using tech to rebrand itself as the anti-Russia
President Toomas Henrik Ilves says he has spent 10 years building an open government, and wants to make it ‘impossible to do bad things’ on the internet
December 2015
The cost of cuts
Why it matters that the chancellor won't fund council technology
Mary O'Hara
Investment in digital directly improves services such as social care, but you wouldn’t know it given George Osborne’s focus on central government
January 2015
John Bercow calls for online voting in 2020 general election
Commission set up by House of Commons Speaker also says there should be live social media coverage of debates
December 2014
Goodbye and good riddance
I only subscribe to this: no more pointless e-petitions
Alex Andreou
Alex Andreou: Goodbye and good riddance: The next time I’m asked to sign something from Change.org or 38 Degrees, I’m going to do something that may actually have an impact
November 2014
Gov.uk quietly disrupts the problem of online identity login
The government’s own expert digital design team have spent three years building a new, safe system for verifying user’s identities - now in action on gov.uk. By Charles Arthur
August 2014
Business leader
Bank of England's dissenters face tough task winning an interest rate rise
Business leader: With inflation likely to fall further and wages weak, the vote for higher rates by Martin Weale and Ian McCafferty looks doomed
The costly trail of British government IT and 'big bang' project disasters
From e-borders to the NHS, the billions spent tell a cautionary tale – but have lessons been learned for universal credit?
'We need the Mary Beard prize for women online,' author claims
The internet is being dominated by corporate America, misogynists and weary cynicism, Charles Leadbeater argues, while its real social potential is being overlooked. By Alex Hern
May 2014
Estonian e-voting shouldn't be used in European elections, say security experts
Researchers who replicated the system in a laboratory environment say the software could be hacked to cast fake votes or servers attacked to alter totals. By Charles Arthur
March 2014
UK should consider e-voting, elections watchdog urges
Occupy founder calls on Obama to appoint Eric Schmidt 'CEO of America'
February 2014
E-petitions can be very effective, but don't put them in the hands of government
Emma Howard
Emma Howard: The aim of a petition is to get something done, yet Directgov is rarely more than a farce. It's better to use independent sites
October 2013
Francis Maude installs Wi-Fi network to bypass 'rubbish' government IT
Minister wanted to use his iPad in his Westminster office, but got frustrated – so he set up his own network. By Alex Hern
July 2013
Clampdown on unofficial premium rate phone lines
PhonepayPlus seeks to prevent ads tricking the public into paying over the odds for calls to NHS Direct and other services
June 2013
Google Adword: beware copycat websites in paid-for search results
Web search results reveal scores of 'rogue websites' tricking the unwary into paying too much for government services
