There is a reason why New South Wales has streaked ahead of its peers in the delivery of digital platforms across government and the transformation of the state’s public...
Policy
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Australian businesses and governments that want to exploit the value in personal data need to first exercise their “moral imagination” because tick-a-box compliance is failing. Speaking at Data Privacy...
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Labor is making political bacon from an admission by NBN Co that almost all of the 1423 micro-nodes planted on the NBN so far to help boost network speeds...
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In a blog posted on 5 July, NBN Chief Networking Officer Peter Ryan makes a series of misleading statements about why NBN Co is building a national network dominated by copper-based...
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University of New South Wales president and vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs will deliver a keynote address at InnovationAus.com’s China Money, China Markets forum in Sydney on July 20. Prof Jacobs...
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Elon Musk’s flamboyantly executed grid storage battery deal for spark-strapped South Australia might not have much local industry content, but the buzz has greatly lifted the profile of local...
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The call from a Silicon Valley colleague a year ago led with the news his all-male venture capital firm was courting a female partner. He thought, correctly, that I...
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When we sat down two and a half years ago with a reporter we were hoping to hire and revealed a plan to launch a publication focused on public...
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There is a financial technology tsunami headed this way from China and our government, business and regulation leaders need to get ready to adapt. So says Grame Barty an...
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Mark Toohey’s startup is a joke – literally. Called TBSx3, the startup is developing a blockchain-based system intended to stall counterfeiters. The joke is in the company name, which...
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Of course LaunchVic should pull its $2.5 million funding of 500 Startups’ plan to set up an accelerator in Melbourne. This is a no-brainer. And it’s not because Dave...
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The Commonwealth’s myGov platform has been “largely effective,” despite ballooning costs and an inability to bring new government services onto the platform, an audit report has found. The Australian...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has lost another two of its most senior digital executives – two of its most senior women – with the shock resignations of Digital Marketplace...
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The Coalition government has tweaked its skilled visa program in the wake of widespread criticism after a major revamp of the 457 visa program back in April, but the...