Author: James Riley

Bridging the public private divide: Cybersecurity

Posted on   |  by David McClure
Cybersecurity threats are having a huge impact on all industries across the public and private sectors – with wide-ranging effects on company trust, the economy, and creating a host...

Media bargaining code is ‘still unworkable’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Google is still not happy with the federal government’s media bargaining code and has indicated it may not accept the final version if it remains unchanged. Legislation implementing a...

Australian FinTech: Worth its weight in gold

Posted on   |  by Jane Hume
One of the most remarkable things about the COVID pandemic is how investors rushed to listed technology equities as panic struck global markets. Whereas gold has traditionally dominated as...

Deloitte lands another big federal platform fix

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Deloitte has won a $1.5 million contract to make sure the government’s second attempt to develop a tech platform to manage apprenticeships goes better than the first go, which...

ACCC’s Big Tech crusade: Facebook court action

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s competition watchdog has continued its crusade against big tech and is taking Facebook to court over the use of its VPN app to allegedly hoover up data from...

Privacy chief wants to carry a bigger stick

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s privacy authority has called for more funding and stronger enforcement powers to bring it into line with its global peers as part of a sweeping review of the...

‘Misguided’: Vic govt ditches COVID platform

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Victorian government made a “misguided and costly mistake” in buying a $4 million IBM platform as part of its effort to combat the COVID-19 second wave, appearing to...

Being digital in 2021 and beyond: Age of Trust

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
“Be not afraid of greatness,” wrote Shakespeare. “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” In this year of the pandemic, much the...

Gutting the APS created a diversity problem

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
In the early 2000’s, I remember sitting around conference tables with other government chief information officers and technologists. Female CIOs headed up Immigration, Centrelink, CSIRO, Industry, Finance and AGIMO...