Listed below are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Downtime Add podcasts of 2020
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Brian McKenna,
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Clare McDonald,
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Caroline Donnelly,
Senior Editor, UK
Published: 24 Dec 2020 9: 00
The Computer Weekly Downtime Add podcast crew started the 300 and sixty five days discussing Harry and Meghan, registered the direction of the Covid-19 public health crisis on endeavor IT all 300 and sixty five days long, and done 2020 with reflections on the channel in the pandemic.
And to present a extra global standpoint, in a single episode, Alex Scroxton, CW’s security editor, joined the crew to discuss how Southeast Asia’s technique to the coronavirus crisis has differed from ours.
The long and winding memoir of the controversial contact-tracing app became unfolded over the direction of the 300 and sixty five days by Joe O’Halloran, CW’s networking editor, and he appeared, in Might perchance, on the podcast to sing in regards to the app’s travails.
Along the strategy, the podcast foregrounded issues bigger than the narrow confines of alternate-to-alternate expertise, signally diversity in IT and in society. Ladies in IT and ethnic diversity – which the Black Lives Subject motion delivered to the fore in 2020 – had been mountainous areas of point of curiosity.
The podcast vitality trio of Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna basically talked about their non-public areas of coverage: respectively, cloud, datacentres and IR35; diversity, expertise and retail; and files analytics and alternate applications.
They in most cases, and other crew members, talked in a extra deepest vein about their ride of the pandemic and its lockdowns. Hair dyeing, gaming, TV bingeing, tropical fish tending (featuring Cliff Saran), cat communing (featuring Bill Goodwin), and rewilding all cropped up, among many other lockdown staples.
The (this 300 and sixty five days) digital Chelsea Flower Trace additionally afforded Caroline an opportunity to discuss gardening, a favored lockdown exercise for many. Who is aware of, presumably these heat-up chats will figure in some future oral history venture?
It’s an invidious job to capture 10 of the 2020 podcast episodes, but right here goes (in chronological sing):
1. Cummings requires files scientists to alter Whitehall, Harry and Meghan leave Britain
Within the 14 January episode, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna greeted the unique decade with reflections on the Travelex ransomware attack and Dominic Cummings’ demand files science to rejuvenate Whitehall. They in most cases took stock of the retail sector’s grim 2019, while remembering to mention the mountainous yarn of the moment: Harry and Meghan.
2. Everywoman in Tech, shrimp one monitors hacked
Within the 10 March episode, Clare McDonald, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna had been joined by CW production editor Claire Cormack to sing in regards to the Everywoman in Tech Discussion board, the vulnerability to hacking of trim cameras and shrimp one monitors, and the stamp or in any other case of the passe annual performance overview.
3. Surveillance capitalism, the Like Computer virus, Amazon versus strikers
Within the 5 Might perchance episode – recorded on Might perchance Day – Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna had been joined by Sebastian Klovig Skelton to sing in regards to the 20th anniversary of the Like Computer virus virus, Shoshana Zuboff on surveillance capitalism, the upward thrust of digital events in the wake of Covid-19 and Amazon’s difficulties with hanging warehouse workers, pertaining to the Covid-19 virus.
4. The lasting digital legacy of Covid-19, SAP and AWS keynotes in spotlight
Within the 23 June episode, Clare McDonald, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna discussed how the pandemic became colorful a lightweight on digital divides across society and between firms. They additionally discussed the CEO keynotes from SAP’s and AWS’s summer conferences, how Microsoft has kept its cloud going via the crisis, and Larry Ellison’s fascinating pot-pictures at competitors.
5. Digital artwork, datacentre futures and diversity
Within the 30 June episode, Clare McDonald, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna discussed digital artwork, Covid-19’s likely lasting affect on the datacentre alternate, and one of the necessary crucial persistent blockages facing diversity in IT.
6. Ladies in tech, loan payment woes and automation
Within the 7 July episode, Clare McDonald, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna discussed the newsletter of the long checklist for the 2020 Most Influential Ladies in UK Technology, the most contemporary developments in the IR35 deepest sector reforms and loan payment sagas, and the affect of AI-pushed automation on journalists and other data workers.
7. Digital addiction, digital expertise, digital transformation at Barnardo’s
Within the 28 July episode, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discussed digital addiction and alternate system, digital expertise in the context of the Covid-19 lockdown, and how Barnardo’s has benefited from digital transformation.
8. Ethnic diversity, cloud apps for Gen Z and accountants
Within the 29 September episode, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discussed train of job diversity in admire of ethnicity, a monetary app for cashless Technology Z, and how accountancy company Saffery Champness has benefited from a system-as-a-provider picture management system.
9. The case of Julian Assange as he faces US extradition negate
Within the 18 November episode, Bill Goodwin, investigations editor, joined Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna to sing in regards to the case of Julian Assange, whose then contemporary extradition hearing at the Old-celebrated Bailey became curiously beneath-reported, but which Bill lined in depth.
10. The channel in the pandemic, datacentres for merchants
Within the 1 December episode, Simon Quicke, editor of MicroScope, joined Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna to discuss how the IT channel has fared and altered in the pandemic, how datacentres were evolving as investment resources, science, expertise, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education for kids via the Asha the Agent guide series, and the guidelines strategy at Files Canines.
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