A New Zealand Cabinet Minister has joined the Australian Digital and Data Council for the first time as state and federal ministers – and now for the first time...
Policy
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Industry Minister Karen Andrews has fast-tracked disbursement of the new $50 million Manufacturing Modernisation Fund to ensure local manufacturers are tooled-up and ready to embrace a post-COVID economic bounce....
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The contract handed to American tech giant Amazon to handle the cloud storage of data from the COVID-19 contact tracing app is a “disgrace” and more must done to...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has propelled the world suddenly into unfamiliar times of uncertainty, hardship and health fears. It has challenged governments and people working together against a common deadly...
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There are “big questions” to be answered over Amazon Web Services’ involvement with the federal government’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, especially around the company’s use of a China-owned data...
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‘Future Industries’ are alive and kicking in the here and now, and on the rise in countries you may not expect to be leading. Countries traditionally reliant on low...
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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...