The source code of the federal government’s contact tracing app will be made public within two weeks after more than 2 million Australians downloaded the service in just one...
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The federal government is working with Apple to improve functionality of its contact tracing app on iOS devices, with confusion over how effective it currently is on the Apple...
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The federal government launched its controversial COVIDSafe contact tracing app on Sunday, and published a Privacy Impact Assessment as it seeks to boost public confidence and trust in the system...
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A uniquely German collaboration between industry and government is the network of Fraunhofer institutes. These take their name from Joseph von Fraunhofer, a prominent German researcher, investor and entrepreneur...
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Japanese tech giant NEC has signed on as a founding partner of the New South Wales government’s multi-billion-dollar Innovation and Technology Precinct to be constructed around Sydney’s Central railway...
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The federal government flagship Entrepreneurs Programme national delivery partners have kicked off a hiring spree, seeking to fill 37 different commercialisation and ‘innovation connection’ positions across all states and...
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The federal government’s controversial plan to introduce a mandatory, consent-free public data sharing scheme has been put on hold due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, three years after it...
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Former Data61 chief executive Adrian Turner has pulled together an extensive coalition of banks, corporate giants and not-for-profit social service delivery organisations under Twiggy Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation to build...
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When President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act as a response to coronavirus in early April it provided a stark acknowledgement of supply-chain gaps not only in the...
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The need for iOS devices to be unlocked and running the contact tracing app in the foreground poses a “major hurdle” to widespread adoption, unless the Australian government chooses...
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The federal government spent more than $3 million on the development of the COVID-19 information app developed by a Canberra tech company in two weeks following a closed tender...
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As Australia prepares to turn the corner on coronavirus and individuals wind down social isolation – at least partially – the question on many minds is: how the world...
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Uvex is a family-owned German manufacturer of sporting and personal protective equipment that will soon celebrate the centenary of its founding. The company’s managing director Stefan Brück says that...
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For a signature policy that is clearly a source of great pride for former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the landmark National Innovation and Science Agenda is given surprisingly short...