Author: Justin Hendry

Top bureaucrats mull NSW-like digital fund for Canberra

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A panel of Canberra’s most senior bureaucrats are weighing an investment vehicle modelled on the New South Wales government’s Digital Restart Fund to support federal digital projects outside of...

Second review of $1.3bn MMI grants program on the cards

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Australia’s national auditor is contemplating a review of the former Morrison government’s $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative despite an earlier internal review commissioned by Labor clearing the grant selections....

NSW Coalition taps digital fund for election pledges

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The New South Wales Coalition will siphon money from the state’s already diminished Digital Restart Fund to pay for the technology underpinning its election policies if re-elected on the...

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...