Screen Time vs Green Time
The irony is not lost on me that I am choosing to spend more time looking at a screen in order to write this article, on how spending too much time looking at computers, phones or tv screens has a detrimental effect on mental health. There is no doubt that technology...
Cybersecurity skills are vital for the fourth agricultural revolution
The potential benefits of autonomous robots and other new digital agricultural technologies are numerous, writes David Christian Rose
Police and Crime Commissioners can be link between cyber policing and citizens
It’s time for Police and Crime Commissioners to play a more active role in the public consultation of how technology is used to protect the public, writes Simon Clifford
What is the future of UK cyber-security and defence?
The single biggest impact that the UK can have on global cyber security lies in challenging digital authoritarianism, writes Dr Danny Steed
What will Digital Warfare look like in the 21st Century?
The scale and speed of communication and the use of real or doctored information to change the behaviour or perception of civilians in conflict zones has increased at a previously unimaginable rate.
Why we must invest in teaching cyber skills
We must make sure that we invest now in the teaching of cyber skills, writes Stephen James for Digital Tories
Allow Councils to continue with virtual meetings
The ability for Councils to be held virtually ends on 7 May 2021. Not all are like Handforth Parish Council’s, writes Tory Council Leader Doug Pullen: they can help reduce our democratic deficit.
Online Harms consultation gives UK opportunity to curb online anonymous abuse
By Pierre Andrews and Alice Hopkin The Problem This week, online racist abuse once again reared its ugly head, attacking Manchester United player and lauded campaigner Marcus Rashford MBE. The issue reached the highest levels of government, with Culture Secretary...
Media literacy is essential to make the UK the safest country to be online
The information landscape If the Coronavirus pandemic has taught us anything, it is that online misinformation creates offline harms. Senseless witch hunts against telecoms engineers and anti-mask protests are behaviours that should be more at home in 17th...
Time to pick up the phone
It’s coming up to Christmas, it’s cold outside and we can’t really go anywhere. And with going canvassing door-to-door currently on pause until further notice, we find ourselves in a world where the best form of canvassing is a simple phone call. But why should...