Insight: business analysis

Business analysts often consider options and their feasibility, but should we also analyse the sustainability of those options? asks Business Analysis Leader, Christina Lovelock MBCS.

Cleaner, greener data centres

John Booth MBCS, Data Centre Energy Efficiency and Sustainability Consultant at Carbon3IT, explores the detrimental trajectory of data centre energy use, against a backdrop of COP26, climate change and proposed EU directives.

BCS impact report: winter 2021

BCS members speak out about Green IT, the future of AI — and a global social media outage. Senior Media Offcer Claire Penketh reports. As part of its Open Technology for Sustainability Day at COP26, Claire Penketh also spoke to Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK about how rethinking tech could help save the planet.

The CIO role: a relentless march forward

Stephen Slough CITP CHCIO FBCS, CIO of the Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group, talks to Johanna Hamilton AMBCS about the digital legacy of COVID and the relentless speed of change within the NHS.

Digital and the modern smart home

For the best part of a decade, the smart home has been on the cusp of becoming a reality, writes Alex Bardell, Co-founder of Sustainability for London, Founder of SDAdvocate and active member of the BCS Green IT SG.

Green IT: cybersecurity cost or benefit?

Tony Proctor CITP, Principal Lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton and Emily Proctor, Post-Graduate Student in International Security, discuss whether green IT and cybersecurity can be mutually beneficial.

2021: hackers value quality over quantity

Reported intrusions are down, the amount of personal data exposed is down, so it’s all good, right? Well yes and no… Patrick O’Connor MBCS CISSP CEH explores the good and bad of events in cyber security in 2021.

What makes a good digital transformation?

Dr Alan Warr CITP MBCS is a digital transformation consultant with over 25 years of experience in both the public and private sector. He talks about the people, the IT and how there is much to learn from the Tudor tome The Prince by Machiavelli, in modern day transformations.

Insight: AI

What is next for AI regulation? Senior Technologist Adam Leon Smith CITP FBCS explores the implications of the EU AI Act.

COP26

The tech to fight climate change is already here – now it needs urgent investment and support. Claire Penketh, Senior Media Officer for BCS, reports from COP26.