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ISSUE DATE: 11 December 2017 TOP STORIES Code First Girls aims to teach 20,000 girls to code by 2020 Social enterprise Code First: Girls has launched a campaign with the aim of teaching 20,000 young women to code by 2020. READ MORE → Australian genome researchers solving big data problems Researchers at the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation have developed a cloud-based tool to look for the needle in a haystack in what they have described as the "datafication of everything". READ MORE → Critical border IT systems won’t be ready before Brexit, says PAC report Of the 85 IT systems at the UK border, 30 will need to be replaced or changed due to Brexit, but critical new or updated border IT systems won’t ready by the time the UK leaves the EU, PAC report finds. READ MORE → ADVERTISEMENT

IN DEPTH Santander UK recruits digital banking expert from Barclays Santander UK has poached Michael Harte from Barclays to drive digital transformation. READ MORE → Forging a new identity: IT underpins Openreach’s independence Openreach chief technology and information officer Mark Lam discusses how IT is helping to forge a new and distinct identity for the network infrastructure business as it leaves the wider BT Group. READ MORE → GDPR prompts businesses to use motivational tactics to drive culture change Impending arrival of General Data Protection Regulation pushes organisations to use rewards or penalties to motivate staff to ensure compliance. READ MORE → Staffordshire University goes all-in on Microsoft Azure for digital transformation Andrew Proctor, director of digital services at Staffordshire University, describes how ditching its datacentres and moving to the Microsoft Azure public cloud has set the organisation on the path to digital transformation. READ MORE →

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