The NSW Government’s data analytics centre – ‘the DAC’ as it has come to be known – is off to a flyer with the appointment of a new advisory board...
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The Australian Government is angling to join the Digital Five grouping of digitally advanced countries and has charged the Digital Transformation Office with creating a formal plan to get...
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While the Australian Government’s industry policy has hitched its wagon to the single word ‘innovation,’ the United States is taking a broader view with a more rounded approach to...
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Whistleblowing can sometimes be a tool for fostering innovation – at least when that innovation is in the public interest. Whistleblowing is speaking out in the public interest, most...
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Plot the share price for digital property business REA Group and it’s a little like the Himalayas – ups and downs, but the general trend is ever higher. So...
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Humans learn and create value for themselves and society in weird ways. Learning usually doesn’t actually require lots of money. It is more about passion, a natural approach and...
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The Australian Information Industry Association was overdue for a reboot when new Chief Executive Rob Fitzpatrick took over two months ago. In the time since, he has been on...
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More than a decade after cashing out of his dotcom era business WebCentral to Australia’s innovation obsessed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, internet pioneer Lloyd Ernst is on a roll...
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Veteran Aussie tech entrepreneur Simon Hackett says we need to vastly raise the tempo of innovation policy to make venture capital work properly in this country as he wrangles...
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It is fair to say the New South Wales Government has been running hot and cold on innovation issues in the past year. The state remains the stand-out leader...
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Brisbane-based Technology One is Australia’s biggest home-grown software company with close to $200 million in annual revenues and more than a thousand employees. Next year the company will be...
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Re-hatched government tech research and commercialisation arm Data61 got to strut its stuff in public this week attracting over 1000 visitors to its D61+Live event at the Australian Technology...
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Australia’s prospects for building serious cyber security businesses muscle are possibly stronger than many realise, but the local digital security sector still waits for the fire to be lit...
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Assistant Minister for Innovation Wyatt Roy certainly gets around. He’s been popping up all over the place recently, bringing his youthful enthusiasm to the Turnbull Government’s innovation agenda. Monday...