Author: Justin Hendry

Agencies flock to use Microsoft Copilot in APS trial

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Thousands of public servants at dozens of federal departments and agencies will become the first to gain access to Microsoft Copilot as part of a six-month trial of the...

Online voting: NSW gets the ball rolling on iVote 2.0

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The revival of internet voting for blind and low vision voters in New South Wales is underway, with the government agency in charge of state elections now scouring the...

Services Australia embarks on massive networking reset

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Services Australia will replace the network that connects its workforce for the first time in more than a decade in response to the growth in cloud-based tools and the...

Most federal govt agencies adopting AI without a policy

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More than half of all federal government agencies using artificial intelligence last year adopted the technology without creating policies to govern its use, raising fresh concerns about the system...

ServiceWA app breaks free of logins after user complaints

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The Western Australian government has overhauled its ServiceWA app to make it more “user friendly”, with the requirement that users login with myGovID to access a range of services...

Opposition grows to real-time pathology data sharing plan

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A plan to make pathology reports immediately accessible through My Health Record is facing opposition from GPs and specialists, with three peak bodies warning the move could lead to...

Gig Guide: NSW data guru Ian Oppermann out

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New South Wales’ first-ever chief data scientist Ian Oppermann is hanging up his boots after more than eight years in the role to join the technology advisory firm set...