Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2021
The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast workforce of Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna began the yr speaking concerning the on-line shenanigans surrounding the Trumpian rebel towards the Capitol Building in Washington on 6 January.
Bill Goodwin additionally took the workforce, in a podcast in February, deeper into US and US-centric political conspiracy theories, and Karl Flinders appeared on the podcast to speak concerning the Post Office scandal.
Back in April, Sebastian Klovig Skelton associated employee resistance within the gig economic system, the summer time noticed a delicate discourse on bees and datacentres from Caroline, and the autumn convention season discovered Clare speaking concerning the prime ladies in UK tech.
Between these episodes, and one other which featured Beyoncé’s stand towards information analytics excesses within the music trade, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, put in an look on the podcast, albeit at a take away, interviewed on-stage by Bryan Glick, Computer Weekly’s editor-in-chief. Puffins, counted by synthetic intelligence throughout their mating season, additionally figured.
The podcast “power trio” of Caroline, Clare and Brian largely talked all year long about their very own areas of protection: respectively, cloud, datacentres and IR35; range, abilities and retail; and information analytics and enterprise functions.
They, and different workforce members, talked in a extra private vein about their experiences of the continued Covid-19 pandemic and its privations and compensations, as they did in 2020. This time round, we heard about Karl’s operating exploits and Alex Scroxton’s anticipations of post-lockdown visits to the theatre, in addition to harbingers of Christmas, together with crafting and the spooky thrills of Halloween.
The workforce closed the yr out, over two episodes, with reflections on IT and the local weather emergency, within the gentle of COP26 in Glasgow.
1. Parler vs AWS, digital education, ambulance information
Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna focus on the purgation of Parler, the traumas of digital education and the South Central Ambulance Service’s use of information to help their operations through the Covid-19 pandemic.
2. Disinformation and the US DNC emails leak controversy
The workforce are joined by Computer Weekly’s Investigations editor Bill Goodwin to debate the position of disinformation within the 2016 Democratic National Committee emails leak.
3. Post Office Horizon and the subpostmasters’ justice battle
Karl Flinders joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald, and Brian McKenna to debate the Post Office Horizon system that introduced havoc to the lives of subpostmasters.
4. Uber drivers’ resistance and the gig economic system
Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Sebastian Klovig Skelton to debate the authorized marketing campaign by Uber drivers for the appropriate to be recognised as employees.
5. CyberUK, bees and datacentres, Red Cross digital mapping
Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Alex Scroxton, Computer Weekly’s safety editor, to debate CyberUK, bees and datacentres, and the British Red Cross’ use of digital mapping to fight Covid-19.
6. Computing exams, AI, water and datacentres
Clare McDonald, Brian McKenna and Caroline Donnelly focus on A-level and GCSE computing outcomes, AI appropriacy and datacentre water consumption.
7. Chancellor Rishi Sunak listens to UK tech
Computer Weekly editor in chief Bryan Glick joins the podcast workforce to debate his interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, at a Treasury Connect convention.
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8. Top ladies in UK tech, AI on puffin island
In this episode, the workforce discusses Computer Weekly’s annual programme to decide on probably the most influential ladies in UK tech, in addition to Newham Sparks, and puffin-counting AI.
9. COP26: IT and local weather change
Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna are joined by Ryan Priest to debate IT’s position in combating local weather change, in addition to YouTube’s momentary expulsion of Novara Media from its platform.
10. COP26 reflections, tech sector reacts to Sunak on abilities
Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna mirror on datacentres and local weather change, the tech sector’s response to authorities IT abilities funding, and the Post Office scandal.
