Data and analytics6 min read
London has the data. Citizens rarely see the benefit
TfL spends roughly £1m a year publishing open data and the assessed return is £90m to £130m a year. The city portal itself tells a much less flattering story.
AI, automation and digital transformation, reported from the UK
Independent analysis of the technology British organisations actually run. Every figure published here carries a link to the body that produced it, and where a number cannot be checked the piece says what is known and who would have to publish the rest.
The Foundry Index
Newest first, across every section.
AI and automation
The five RPA applications that survived contact with reality
A decade of robotic process automation left five recognisable shapes of work still running in British organisations. Here is what they are, and what killed the rest.
Cloud and infrastructure
The constraint on British compute is electricity
There is more data centre capacity queuing for a grid connection in Great Britain than the whole country draws at peak. Ofgem does not believe most of it is real.
Cybersecurity
What the Online Safety Act changed, and what it did not
Ofcom fined a suicide forum £950,000, then reported that it had exhausted every legal route to collect it. Three years of Online Safety Act enforcement.
Emerging technology
Scoring eighteen predictions from 2018
A list of eighteen predictions is a hedge. Eight years on, the ones that arrived on time all had a statutory deadline attached, and the rest are still unmarkable.