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As your professional membership and accreditation body for IT, serving over 69,000 members, BCS is committed to promoting wider social and economic progress through the advancement of information technology science and practice.

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Video debates


IT's help in the credit crunch



What can IT do to help enterprises cope in the current economic climate - and is it all bad for IT professionals?

  • Part 1: Remote working and interaction
  • Part 2: IT tools to aid effeciency
  • Part 3: IT professionals can benefit
  • Part 4: IT's creative input and board-level response

IT policies and your green credentials



What does it take to be really green? What needs to be in IT policies? How can we tell myth from truth in an emotive area? Four industry experts discuss the issues in the video 'The BCS Debates...IT policies and your green credentials.'

IT Training
Podcast Series


IT Training Episode 5 >

Competency frameworks - how they can be used to help develop employees and to make training more focused


IT Training Episode 3 >

Professionalism - using Flickr for internal communications, the future use of social networking and cloud computing.


IT Training Episode 8 >

Project management - how qualifications translate into the practice, and the impact of the Prince2 refresh

Data security and public confidence



Your personal data could be being lost on trains, exchanged in car parks or sold over the internet. What can we do about the security lapses we've seen recently? Who should be accountable? What's our responsibility?

  • Part 1: Societal issues
  • Part 2: Should security be more draconian?
  • Part 3: Who should be allowed to data?
  • Part 4: What's our personal responsibilty?

Solving the IT skills supply and demand cycle



This debate looks at a problem that could seriously impact the UK's future competitiveness - the shortage of computer science graduates.

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