Author: Justin Hendry

Data localisation could limit compute access: Google

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Australia’s access to cutting-edge compute capabilities would be restricted if the federal government was to introduce data localisation requirements for certain sensitive datasets, according to Google’s local public policy...

Global innovation leaders to gather in Sydney

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Even though innovation is highly prized among senior executives, many still don’t know how to inculcate it at an organisational level.  The inaugural Leading Innovation Summit 2023, sponsored by...

NSW govt flexes AI policies in wake of ChatGPT

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Past efforts to address “less impressive” forms of artificial intelligence have helped the New South Wales government respond to the challenges and opportunities presented by ChatGPT, according to the...

EY’s GovERP work grows $43m in five months

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Ernst & Young will be paid another $7.2 million over the next three months to ramp up work on the federal government’s enterprise resource planning system less than three...

NSW Labor to explore stopgap for digital voting

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NSW Labor will investigate an interim digital voting solution to allow blind and low vision Australians to cast a verifiable ballot in state and local government elections before 2027...

Give private sector access to govt data: Productivity Commission

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The federal government is preventing “high-value data uses” by not granting the private sector access to public sector data holdings, according to the Productivity Commission’s first economy-wide report in...

Govt urged to double games fund pledge

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The Albanese government should double the funding for the Australian Interactive Games Fund it pledged to resurrect under its five-year National Cultural Policy, according to the peak body for...