In Victorian England, poverty grew from the shadows of wealth. Slums slumped against symbols of civic pride, cowering next to towering town halls funded through rich merchant princes, whose...
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Cities are centres of population, commerce, and culture while communities are groups of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. Think city and...
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When Ben Hamilton moved to Singapore from Melbourne in 2009 to explore the Southeast Asian market for education software services, he didn’t realize that seven years later Wisenet would...
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The great Australian myth of mateship and working together to overcome adversity does not extend to business collaboration around innovation. According to the 2016 Australian Innovation System Report from...
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You are never too young to know what you want to be in life. Take a cue from University of South Australia (UniSA). As one of Australian’s youngest universities,...
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The much-anticipated Crossroads report from advocacy group StartupAus has lobbed onto the internet, painting a glass-half-full picture of Australia’s entrepreneur scene while at the same time warning that the...
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The election of a new board at the Australian Information Industry Association – and the release of its financial statements at annual general meeting ten days ago has stirred...
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Innovation and technology will be used as the hooks for Sydney University to launch its first research centre in China – indeed its first facility of any kind –...
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The old investment banker in Malcolm Turnbull would have been secretly chuffed at the recipient of this year’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Innovation. Mr Turnbull had a glittering career...
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GovHack 2016 ended on a high note last weekend as the winning project teams from across Australia and New Zealand soaked up all the glory and fame at GovHack...
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Start thinking ‘innovation as usual’ as the norm rather than the exception, and expressing innovation in terms of the business rather than the system. That’s the mind-set Victoria’s Lead...
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As digital transformation investments reshape the way Australian governments deliver services to the public, it is also changing the way these governments engage with the tech industry and with...
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Australia’s entertainment and media sector must encourage diversity or risk losing out on emerging growth opportunities in Asia Pacific. This was the key takeaway from PwC’s 2016 Australian Entertainment...
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The ‘sexiest job of the 21st century’ does not have many takers, and Microsoft has come up with a solution to close the skills gap. The term was coined...