Variety, imagination, rigour & determination We’ve just completed the first round of judging the inaugural Housing Technology Awards 2024 before the entries are reviewed by our external panel of judges. Without going into the details of individual entries, the awards’ entries are a true showcase of both the breadth and depth of technology-based innovation and…
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Celebrating your IT ambitions & business innovation
The inaugural Housing Technology Awards are now open for entries (closing date 12 January 2024) and we’re really looking forward to seeing the breadth, ambition and scale of technology and business innovation in our sector. We would encourage all housing providers to enter our 2023/24 awards (entries are free) to highlight the work they’ve been…
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Because you’re worth it…
We are delighted to announce that we are in the midst of analysing the fascinating results of Housing Technology’s first-ever review of business and technology salaries in housing. Given people’s natural interest in how they and their peers are remunerated, we had an outstanding response to our survey (100 per cent anonymous, for obvious reasons),…
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Artificial expectations?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is receiving widespread coverage in the media at the moment. On the one hand, people are marvelling at the apparent wonders of ChatGPT, while on the other people are asking what untrammelled AI might mean for jobs and human agency (notwithstanding the theoretical creation of artificial general intelligence [AGI] and/or fears of…
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Two heads are better than one…
During the Housing Technology 2023 conference at the start of March, three areas stood out as being top of the guests’ wish-lists and concerns. The first two were data management and cybersecurity, both of which were widely covered during the wealth of presentations at the conference. The third area was collaboration. Not in the sense…
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Building compassion
One of the things that troubles me during the small hours of the night is knowing that housing – a basic human need – is in short supply. And I don’t just mean in the UK, where the problem is endemic within our socio-economic system, but globally, where the causes are even more complex. According…
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