22 May 2026 - 18:41
Category: IT Fail
Isle of Wight to solve all IT failures
The Isle of Wight is proposed as a testbed for digital government to prevent future IT disasters. I am entirely confident a small island will solve all our systemic mess.
Source: Computer Weekly
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In a desperate bid to save us from ourselves, theorists are suggesting the Isle of Wight as the perfect sandbox to test digital government initiatives. This grand social experiment directly affects the island's captive residents who get to be the guinea pigs for preventing future spectacular IT failures. Perhaps testing our fragile systems in isolated locations like this will protect the wider mainland from our usual rushed deployments, assuming we actually learn anything from the inevitable digital chaos.