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techUK submits response to Government Universal Service Obligation Consultation

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Government's consultation on Broadband Universal Service Obligation follow’s the Prime Minister’s announcement in November 2015 of the Government’s intention to implement a new broadband Universal Service Obligation (USO) with the aim to give people the right to request an affordable broadband connection, at a minimum speed, from a designated provider, up to a reasonable cost threshold.

The consultation sought views on the process the Government intends to follow to deliver a broadband Universal Service Obligation – explaining the government’s rationale for a broadband USO, the proposed measures that government intends to put in legislation, and the roadmap that government will follow to take the work forward.

 

"techUK very much supports the underlying aims encompassed in this consultation, in terms of ensuring both,

  • 'world class’ connectivity in the UK to maximise economic and social opportunities, and
  • (the prime focus of this consultation) digital inclusion so that every UK individual and organisation is able to avail themselves of the increasing benefits that the internet and online world brings.

However our member companies have concerns as to whether it is the best mechanism to deliver the latter objective and would like to see a systematic analysis of the options and the unforeseen consequences...."

 

The full response is available to download below (techUK member's only).

Ofcom has been commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to provide technical analysis and recommendations to support the design of the broadband USO. techUK will be responding to Ofcom's call for inputs to help inform the design of a broadband USO and a techUK is holding an event on 1 June 2016 to discuss and mobilise industry perspectives on the opportunities and implications of Ofcom's Call for Input on the Universal Service Obligation. 

 


More information is available if you are interested in getting involved in techUK's Communications Policy Council activities or the wider Communications Infrastructure Programme

{bio}raj.sivalingam@techuk.org{/bio}


Demo of the sandbox

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In November last year, the FCA published a report setting out their plans to expand Project Innovate by implementing a regulatory sandbox. The regulatory sandbox aims to create a 'safe space' in which businesses can test innovative products, services, business models and delivery mechanisms in a live environment without immediately incurring all the normal regulatory consequences of engaging in the activity in question. The FCA will accept testing proposals from 9 May 2016 to 8 July 2016. More information is available on their website.

If you want to learn more, we are hosting a session on 7th of June, where Helen Ginter from the FCA’s Innovation Hub will give a presentation about the sandbox, how you can apply, and you will be able to ask questions.

Briefing | EU Commission Staff Working Document: Advancing IoT in Europe

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In April the European Commission published a package of documents under the Digital Single Market Strategy looking at digitising industry. As a part of this the Commission published a Staff Working Document on the advancement of IoT in Europe.

The Commission sees the IoT as a unique opportunity for Europe. By seizing opportunities coming from the wider diffusion of digital innovation across sectors Europe has the potential to become a world leader. To continue to attract high levels of investment and innovation a dynamic European IoT ecosystem must be created.

To capture this opportunity the Commission seeks to address specific policy challenges linked to a harmonised Digital Single Market, notably interoperability, ubiquity, end-to-end security and trust.

Against the background of global competition and risks of fragmentation and delay, the Commission has created a dedicated Focus Area for IoT under Horizon 2020. The Commission intends to invest more than €100m in large scale IoT pilots and lighthouse initiatives in a number of lead markets including smart homes, personal wellness and wearables, smart manufacturing, smart cities, connected and autonomous vehicles, and smart farming.

Below members can find a briefing providing an overview of the Commission’s Digitising Industry Strategy and views on advancing IoT.

You can also see techUK's Head of Policy, Charlotte Holloway's and Head of Big Data, Cloud & Mobile, Sue Daley's response to the launch of the European Digitising Industry Strategy.

For more information contact:

{bio}Aimee.Betts-Charalambous@techUK.org{/bio}

Demonstration of FCA's regulatory sandbox

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In November last year, the FCA published a report setting out their plans to expand Project Innovate by implementing a regulatory sandbox. The regulatory sandbox aims to create a 'safe space' in which businesses can test innovative products, services, business models and delivery mechanisms in a live environment without immediately incurring all the normal regulatory consequences of engaging in the activity in question. The FCA will accept testing proposals from 9 May 2016 to 8 July 2016. More information is available on their website.

If you want to learn more, we are hosting a session on 7th of June, where Helen Ginter from the FCA’s Innovation Hub will give a presentation about the sandbox, how you can apply, and you will be able to ask questions.

techUK hosts roundtable with Gov & members to gain input on Apprenticeship Levy

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The Apprenticeship Levy is set to impact a number of techUK members. As such, following the release of Employer Guidance documents, techUK has organised a roundtable session for its members to discuss the documents and further concerns with the Levy with officials from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

 

The apprenticeship levy will be set at a rate of 0.5% on an employer's pay bill. Each employer will receive an allowance of £15,000 to offset against their levy payment. This means that the levy will only be paid on any pay bill in excess of £3 million and the Chancellor has claimed that "less than 2% of businesses" will pay it. CSR documents estimate that the levy will apply to employers of roughly 110 employees and over. However, as statistics show the average tech sector salary is £43,000, the tech industry is more likely to be affected from roughly 70 employees upwards.

techUK members will have the opportunity to discuss what the Levy will mean for their companies and share their thoughts on the Levy with an official. To register your attendance, please email Doniya Soni

For questions on techUK's work on the Apprenticeship Levy or wider skills work, get in touch with Doniya Soni.

{bio}doniya.soni@techuk.org{/bio}

UK Spectrum Policy Forum - Cluster 4

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Cluster 4 meeting on the EC Review of the Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services

DCMS has asked the Spectrum Policy Forum for the views of UK spectrum stakeholders on the summary by the European Commission of the responses to its public consultation on the Review of the Regulatory Framework for Electronic Communications Networks and Services.

The Commission issued its consultation in September 2015. The Spectrum Policy Forum held a meeting on 6th November to develop a response to the aspects specifically focusing on spectrum, which were submitted in a combined response with techUK. The Commission has issued a Summary Report (see below) and a Synopsis of responses (section 2.3 addresses spectrum).

The aim of this meeting is to capture the views of UK stakeholders on the Review, with the aim of providing these views to DCMS.

Agenda

Welcome and Introduction
Simon Pike, Chair of Cluster 4

Background to the Review
TBC

Perspectives of UK Stakeholders
You are invited to give a short presentation on the views of your organisation - please let Skye Macleod know in advance.

Discussion
Identification of areas of consensus and areas where there are a range of views

Next Steps and Conclusions
Development of written response to DCMS

Extract from the Summary Report:

"On spectrum, the importance of wireless connectivity and wireless broadband are acknowledged. In general, industry is supportive of a more co-ordinated approach and seeks additional certainty for investments and possibilities to develop throughout the EU new wireless and mobile communications including 5G.

Member States' authorities generally underline the achievements in the field of technical harmonisation, and the need for additional coordination to be bottom-up and voluntary; some of them call for a better balance between harmonisation and flexibility. There is general recognition of the importance of a more flexible access and use of spectrum in the future."


For further information regarding the UK Spectrum Policy Forum please contact:

Civil Service Must be Vigilant to Cyber Security Treat

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Across all business industries, cyber security is an increasing concern. In 2015, Symantec found that the UK is the most attacked country in the world. Stats like these, combined with high profile hacks, have made the business community more aware than ever of the need to protect their business online.

These threats are relevant to any data that is kept within an organisation. In the UK, the biggest holder of data is the Government, and you would expect a similar level of awareness within the Civil Service.

However, our survey of nearly 1,500 Civil Servants, released today, shows that security concerns have dropped in the past 12 months. Just 46% of those surveyed in March 2016 said that data security was the biggest obstacle in tech adoption. This is down from 2015, when 55% of respondents said security challenges were the biggest obstacle.

Reassuringly, the 2016 figure rose to 57% of those in IT roles, though it is still below the level of concern seen in the private sector where the take up of initiatives such as Cyber Essentials is growing.

You could argue that security is not seen as an obstacle because standards are so high that it is less of a consideration for government tech adoption. However, everything we see in terms of the increase in volume and sophistication of attacks would suggest that such confidence is misplaced.

The rest of the survey findings suggest an alternative interpretation. Throughout the survey, skills were identified as one of the biggest challenges in driving tech adoption within the public sector and transforming public services. Just 14% rated digital capability as good, while 35% rated them poor or unsatisfactory.

Encouragingly, there is recognition of the benefits of a more skilled Civil Service. For example, 73% of civil servants said that having access to the right skills internally would help drive better value from their department’s IT spend.

Investing in the right skills, and therefore awareness of the potential threats, is vital if government is to achieve its goal of transforming public services. By putting security at the forefront of the adoption of technology across the public sector, Government can grow citizen trust and drive the adoption of secure digital services.

{bio}talal.rajab@techuk.org{/bio}

 

Civil Servants Putting User Needs at the Heart of Digital Transformation

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The coming decades will be one of the most challenging times for government. All departments and agencies are tasked with delivering better value for money, while facing the dual challenges of shrinking budgets and an ageing and more demanding population.

The march of digital has changed our world, and the public sector needs a radical new approach to accelerate use of technology and digital. Our survey of nearly 1,500 Civil Servants, released today, showed that the majority understand the role of tech in delivering this change. Tech is increasingly seen as an enabler, rather than a necessity, and almost none see tech as merely an overhead. Similarly, 84% agree or strongly agree that IT as critical to delivering their business plan.

Promisingly, we are seeing an increasingly customer centric Civil Service, Repeatedly in the survey, respondents demonstrated that they see tech as key to improving experience for users and their work. 80% see IT as critical to improving the service for users and 57% see IT as critical to dealing with increased demand for services. In this time of change, this attitude will be key to successfully delivering David Cameron’s objective of a Smarter State. It is also clear that the Government Digital Service has been successful in landing its message on encouraging departments to ask ‘what is the user need’ before embarking on a project.

Responding to the survey, Civil Servants were also positive about the potential for tech to individualise services. 35% said personalising the customer experience could help them become more efficient in their work. This has the potential to open up opportunities for the development of more bespoke services based on user preferences and services that meet user needs.

Tech can help deliver more responsive, personalised public services, while also saving money – helping the government reach its economic targets and supporting the UK’s return to growth. There was widespread appetite to work with tech suppliers to make this a reality. The majority agreed that engagement with suppliers at all stages of the procurement process is either essential or very useful and ‘better engagement between government and industry’ was the most selected option (56%) for improving value that government gets from suppliers.

By working together, public and private sectors can accelerate progress towards truly digital, public services that meet user needs.

 

{bio}naureen.khan@techuk.org{/bio}


Disrupting the public sector

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Late last year, the prime minister set out his vision for a smarter state. Public services, he argued, should be delivered locally, collaboratively and cost-efficiently. Technology, it was claimed, would allow the Government to “spend less and deliver more.”

More efficient services are much-needed. Delivering the efficiencies that Cameron targeted are an easy win for fragmented public services. In the NHS, the sharing of information between general practices has allowed otherwise isolated GPs to benchmark and improve health outcomes in a host of areas – through financially incentivising the increased use of vaccinations, for instance. The Government is right to highlight the need to create the infrastructure capable of delivering these easy wins.

Yet public services can go much further. Policymakers and providers are in a position to radically change services. Technology can act as the disruptor here.

To start, technology can disrupt how services are delivered. Services designed to prevent issues from occurring, rather than react to problems, offer significant cost savings for the taxpayer and better outcomes for citizens. In healthcare, this might involve professionals understanding a patient’s risk of developing a health condition before it arises. Using algorithms to do this is uncommon, but a pilot in Devon showed 87 per cent accuracy in predicting unscheduled admissions for high-risk patients. Reform calculates that the NHS could save £600 million a year by 2030-31 through better prevention and self-management of conditions. Using technology to identify at-risk patients is critical to this approach.

Technology can also enable the delivery of bespoke, patient-centred services. Health apps could transmit real-time information on conditions to doctors, allowing immediate health advice to be given. Apps can also prompt healthy behaviours, resulting in clear benefits: in a randomised control trial, a weight-loss app which encouraged people to self-monitor diet and physical activity helped users lose 3.9kgs more than the standard group. Obesity costs the NHS £5 billion a year – tapping into this market and others would yield significant gains for patients and taxpayers.

Beyond these apps, artificial intelligence (AI) could deliver services. In health, statisticians have produced algorithms capable of diagnosing diabetic retinopathy, which concur with a doctor’s opinion in 85 per cent of cases. Babylon Health, a private UK company, is developing an AI app designed to monitor users’ daily habits to warn of illness. IBM Watson is working to apply machine learning to large unstructured datasets – allowing physicians to most efficiently identify health issues. Computers are quicker and cheaper than their human counterparts.

The way public services are delivered can be revolutionised to deliver better results for users, at a lower cost to taxpayers. Such frontline change can only happen through the use of genuinely disruptive technology. This should be an aim for policymakers at the highest level. Achieving this by 2030 would make the current prime minister’s vision look very 2015.

This blog is part of our Driving Innovation in Public Services campaign. Join the discussion on #futuretech

What Public Sector can learn from Uber . . .

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When most people hear the word Uber they think about a mobile app that allows them to book car services. However, Uber is much more than that. Uber is a dynamic peer-to-peer market making platform that connects buyers and sellers and helps address supply and demand inefficiencies in markets.

Uber and other market making platforms like Airbnb and TaskRabbit have disrupted traditional industries by providing digital platforms that match people who want to share assets online. Platforms like these are now common place in the ‘sharing economy’ and their applications can be seen globally across industries.

While countless start-ups and entrepreneurs across industries have embraced the opportunities of these market making platforms, governments and public sector organizations have yet to exploit the potential of this capability. There are multiple potential applications for market making platforms to address critical social and economic issues in societies around the world. Here are just a few potential opportunities where market making platforms could be leveraged to help address societal issues:

Childcare finder: Platform enabling parents and guardians to be able to find emergency daycare, babysitting services (critical for single working parents and transitioning workers)

Agriculture development (Rural and Urban): Platform to connect small farmers with local and regional markets, restaurants, co-ops, etc. to reduce food miles and drive economic growth

Healthcare provider marketplace: Platform to connect patients with providers (based on their location) – enabling them to find available services (e.g., ER, urgent care) and schedule appointments with vetted providers

Foster care network marketplace: Allowing juveniles and case workers to find openings for short-term care in emergency situations

Shelter match: Allowing individuals, law enforcement, and social workers to search for and reserve availability in shelters for homeless and/or displaced individuals

Volunteer match: Allowing organizations and individuals to connect on volunteer opportunities (including environmental and community clean up efforts)

Counseling support: Platform to connect individuals with available counseling resources (e.g., mental health, suicide prevention, drug and alcohol support)

Employment market: Platform matching day and temporary laborers with contractors in various service areas (e.g., construction, HVAC) (Can also be extended to professional services direct to consumers)

This list simply represents a sampling of the potential applications in the public sector. People far smarter than I can surely come up with a near endless list of value added opportunities. Too often we focus solely on industry peers for leading practices and innovative ideas. Governments and other public sector organizations need to open their horizons and reimagine how their organizations can fulfill their missions in new and innovative ways. The next time you’re sitting in an Uber, consider how their business model could transform how you operate and deliver services.

This blog is part of our Driving Innovation in Public Services campaign. Join the discussion on #futuretech

Driving Innovation in Public Services Campaign

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This week, we’ll be looking at the potential of tech to transform all areas of the public sector, from central and local government to health and emergency services.

The coming decades will be one of the most challenging times for government. All departments and agencies are tasked with delivering better value for money. This is in the context of shrinking budget and an ageing and more demanding population.

Smart application of digital technology has the potential to revolutionise our public services. Imagine a world where public services are designed around you: whatever service you need, you have one log-in to a single intuitive profile; digital reminders are proactively sent to you, informing you that your passport runs out in six months; your prescription needs refilling; or your planning permission has been approved; no matter what service you need, your data is securely available to the right people at the right time.

Tech can make all of this happen, while also saving money – helping the government reach its economic targets and supporting the UK’s return to growth.

How do we make this dream a reality? Working together, government and the tech industry need to:

  • Think big: We need big ambition, set at the top and living throughout every department across central and local government and our health and social services.
  • Embrace innovation: Government must incentivise the use of disruptive tech to drive change.
  • Work together: government must end silos and duplication by investing in tech that helps people work better together through the easy sharing of information.

Tech can be part of the solution to many of the social and economic challenges facing the UK today. We must work together to accelerate progress, or the dream of a digitally transformed public sector will slip from our grasp.

Join the discussion using #futuretech on Twitter, or grab one of the few remaining tickets to #PS2030, taking place tomorrow in central London.

 

Attract Top Tech Talent during Times of High Growth

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During times of high growth, being able to attract, retain and manage your top tech talent will be key to your success. But this can be a challenge, particularly if your organisation relies on a large contractor workforce.

 

Join us on 21 June 2016 as we explore strategies to attract top tech talent during times of high growth.

techUK will kick the session off, exploring where the UK tech market currently stands in terms of skills, and the issues which must be addressed now to secure a strong future pipeline of tech talent. We’ll then be joined by Mani Kumar, Head of Talent Acquisition EMEA at Thomson Reuters, who will share their strategy for attracting top tech talent, and why using a third party allows them to manage their contractors more effectively. Finally, Gareth Vale from Experis will conclude the session by demonstrating digital talent attraction techniques and strategies that will ensure your brand is well represented to in-demand tech talent.

Agenda

8.30am – Registration

9.00am – techUK: introductions and overview of the UK tech market

9.15am – Mani Kumar, Head of Talent Acquisition EMEA, Thomson Reuters

9.45am – Gareth Vale, Head of Marketing, Experis

10.15am – Q&A facilitated by techUK

10.30am – Close

For more information on techUK's Skills, Talent and Migration group, get in touch with Doniya Soni:

{bio}doniya.soni@techuk.org{/bio}

Cyber 2016 Conference

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The Cyber 2016 conference will review emerging threats in cyberspace, address privacy rights and national security approaches online, analyze business vulnerability to cyber-crime and address what can be done to improve security across commercial and public organisations.

The role that international cooperation, technological developments, legislation or voluntary guidelines could play in tackling these challenges will also be assessed. 

With increasing connectivity across digital devices, cyber resilience is becoming ever more critical. However, with this greater complexity, it is also becoming harder to achieve. Borders between states, as well as the boundaries between governments and businesses, consumers and retailers, and criminals and victims, now exist online as well as in the physical realm. This presents cybersecurity challenges for states, businesses and individuals.

Central to discussions on the day will be:

  • Continued Cyber Threats and Emerging Opportunities
  • Data Protection, Privacy and National Security
  • Tackling Cyber Crime: Policy, Skill Development and Collaboration
  • International Principles, Rules and Cooperation in Cyberspace
  • Evolving Approaches to Cyber Security

Booking enquiries and costs

You can register as well as find all the prices for this conference here.  

 

View conference agenda | Visit the conference website

This event is partnered by techUK.

Export Control for products using or containing Data Encryption

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Does your technology product use encryption for wireless communications? If you plan to export this product, can you be sure you are not breaking UK export laws?

Why technology devices use data encryption
Encryption is widely used to secure data transmitted wirelessly between electronic devices and is at the heart of the Internet of Things. Any wireless sensor will normally communicate using standard encryption protocols to ensure that the data is not intercepted or interfered with when transmitted to the router, host controller or cloud. There are now a variety of communication standards available such as ZIGBEE, which is used for industrial communications as well as in commercial products.

Restrictions on export
All commonly-used encryption methods use a key to enable encryption and decryption. Current EU regulations require an export licence for all products using symmetric algorithms with a key length over 56 bits. But many commonly-used encryption protocols now use key lengths of 1024 bits or more. All such products therefore are subject to export licence restrictions unless they are exempted on the grounds that they are ‘mass market’. But the UK Government interprets the criteria for defining what is ‘mass market’ much more narrowly than the US or some other EU Governments. This puts a disproportionate burden on UK exporters and is causing them to lose business.

Of even more importance is the fact that the export legislation, is not restricted to the physical product but also includes software and technology information related to the product. Phones, computers and tablets that contain product design data or software are also subject to licence restrictions is they travel outside of UK, and that could include company emails that relate to the product.

Many companies go to great lengths to ensure that they are able to comply with this law, but it is now widely accepted that standard encryption methods such as AES and wireless technology such as ZIGBNEE should be classed as ‘mass market’ and therefore not requiring a licence.

Consequences of breaking export law
Breaches of export controls are a criminal offence and can result in the seizure of your goods, an unlimited compound penalty (i.e. a fine in lieu of a prosecution), a fine of up to three times the goods’ value or, in cases where the regulations have been deliberately evaded, an unlimited fine and a prison sentence of up to 10 years.

We would like to hear from you if you are affected by this legislation
techUK in cooperation with ADS have been working with members, the Export Control Organisation (ECO) and (CESG) to address these issues and help Government push forward with urgent reforms.

On 10th May, the joint techUK-ADS Export Control Reform group will be meeting with CESG and ECO to discuss this matter. We are seeking a few volunteer companies to help present the case for the UK to adopt USA-type controls for ‘mass market’ products that use standard encryption methods. Please let me know if you would like to volunteer to attend this meeting. The next full meeting of the Export Controls reform group will take place the week after on the 19th May.

Meanwhile, we need to understand a bit more detail of how the current rules are affecting UK technology businesses. If you are aware of your business being affected by current ECO/CESG rules on products containing encryption, please would you complete the survey form below. Further background information is given below the survey in this email.

1. Are you being adversely impacted by this issue and the UK Government’s stance? Yes / No
If the answer to the above question is “Yes”, please provide a rough estimate of how much the compliance costs for your company are for dealing with current regulations, including in extra additional resource needed (which is a cost) and in lost business.
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2. Is your company considering locating part or all of the affected business overseas? Yes / No
If so, what is the approximate size of the business that would be affected (people employed / £ pa)?
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3. Do you have any written evidence that an overseas Government’s stance is different in this area to that of HMG? Yes / No
If the answer to the above question is “Yes”, please provide some further details:
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All responses will be anonymised and amortised (and, of course) can be sent through the post, if deemed necessary to conserve confidentiality (!). These should be sent to: Ken.Ball@techUK.org.

Further Information
If you are not sure whether your company is affected by this export legislation or you would like to be involved in this activity, please contact me.

Government confirms £80m for National Colleges

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Today, the Government announced £80 million in funding for the creation of 5 new National Colleges - including Ada College for Digital Skills.

techUK has been an active supporter of the National College for Digital Skills. The College is a government and industry co-sponsored initiative to address the digital skills gap many UK technology businesses face. Announced by the Prime Minister in December 2014, the College will be the first newly incorporated Further Education College since 1993 when it opens to students in September 2016.

Addressing the skills gap faced by UK technology businesses, the College will work closely with industry to create courses and qualifications including long-term work placements to equip students for highly skilled, computing-related roles. Ada College also aims to boost the number of women in tech - hoping to register at least 20% women of its 100 sixth-formers. 

For more information on techUK's work on Skills, Talent and Diversity, get in touch with Doniya Soni:

{bio}doniya.soni@techuk.org{/bio}

 


FCA Launch Their Regulatory Sandbox

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), yesterday opened its regulatory sandbox to applications from industry. The sandbox offers companies a ‘safe space’ to test new capabilities and innovative business models while ensuring consumers are adequately protected. In the past, market entrants have found it difficult to both understand regulatory requirements and implement them with enough speed to enter the market, given they are faced with scarce resources. The launch of the sandbox will appreciably lower market barriers to entry and will provide a better engagement model for all firms needing to engage with regulations. The sandbox can offer firms a tailored authorisation process for those in the testing phase; guidance for firms testing products that do not fit existing regulation and in some cases waivers and no enforcement action letters. 

The launch of the sandbox follows the creation of the FCA’s Innovation Hub in October 2014, which has been tasked with facilitating the regulatory journey for both new and established firms with innovative business models in the financial services sector.

Tracey McDermott, Acting Chief Executive of the FCA, stated:

'Supporting innovation is an essential part of our role in promoting competition in the interests of consumers.

'Our aspiration is that the sandbox not only enables innovative ideas to be tested and brought to market, but also helps to reduce the time and the cost of getting them there.'

Applications to join the first cohort of the regulatory sandbox close on 8th of July 2016.

techUK members will recieve a demonstration of the sandbox capability from Helen Ginter of FCA Project Innovate, on 7 June 2016. 

Health and Social Care Council meeting

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The Health and Social Care Council develops and leads the overall techUK Health and Social Care Programme, brings focus to our healthcare policy work and determines the programme activities moving forward. The Council meets bi-monthly to evaluate progress to the work programme; discuss industry, market and policy issues; stakeholder engagement developments; and identify opportunities to promote the programme and ensure our activities and outputs help achieve value for members.

An agenda and programme update for this meeting will be posted one week in advance, with minutes following three weeks after the meeting.

If you have any questions please contact:

 

Two thirds of large UK businesses hit by cyber breach or attack in past year

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The Government's Cyber Security Breaches Survey show two thirds of large UK businesses hit by cyber breach or attack in past year. Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Vaizey MP said:

"The UK is a world-leading digital economy and this Government has made cyber security a top priority. Too many firms are losing money, data and consumer confidence with the vast number of cyber attacks. It’s absolutely crucial businesses are secure and can protect data. As a minimum companies should take action by adopting the Cyber Essentials scheme which will help them protect themselves."

Commenting on the findings techUK's Talal Rajab, Head of Programme - Cyber and National Security, said: 

"The Government's recent Cyber Breaches Survey once again highlights the importance of basic security measures in order to secure businesses against the growing threat of cyber crime.

It is now a case of when, not if, a business gets attacked and basic measures such as Cyber Essentials, as highlighted by the report, can go a long way to ensure businesses stay resilient and maintain consumer confidence in digital products"

For further details on techUK's work on cyber security, contact Talal Rajab.

{bio}talal.rajab@techuk.org{/bio}

Health and Social Care Council meeting

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The Health and Social Care Council develops and leads the overall techUK Health and Social Care Programme, brings focus to our healthcare policy work and determines the programme activities moving forward. The Council meets bi-monthly to evaluate progress to the work programme; discuss industry, market and policy issues; stakeholder engagement developments; and identify opportunities to promote the programme and ensure our activities and outputs help achieve value for members.

An agenda and programme update for this meeting will be posted one week in advance, with minutes following three weeks after the meeting.

If you have any questions please contact:

Health and Social Care Council meeting

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The Health and Social Care Council develops and leads the overall techUK Health and Social Care Programme, brings focus to our healthcare policy work and determines the programme activities moving forward. The Council meets bi-monthly to evaluate progress to the work programme; discuss industry, market and policy issues; stakeholder engagement developments; and identify opportunities to promote the programme and ensure our activities and outputs help achieve value for members.

An agenda and programme update for this meeting will be posted one week in advance, with minutes following three weeks after the meeting.

If you have any questions please contact:

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