Ukraine’s three-year-old digital ID system became an unlikely source of military intelligence in the nation’s defence against Russia, while far older tech has also proven more resilient than anticipated,...
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Universities Australia chief executive Catriona Jackson will resign at the end of this year after five years in the role. Ms Jackson has been at the organisation for seven...
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Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union assistant national secretary Glenn Thompson has filled the last National Reconstruction Fund Corporation board position more than two months after the appointments were announced. Mr...
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For many non-profits and non-government organisations, technology issues can get in the way of delivering services to the people who need it most. The need to have effective tech...
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Government Services minister Bill Shorten has flagged a new direction for federal digital service development, throwing his support behind smaller, cheaper methods that accept failure earlier in the project...
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Australia should “stop all efforts” to regulate artificial intelligence according to one of the country’s leading authorities on the subject, who says it remains too early to grasp the...
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Australia can only retain its competitive advantages in innovative technologies like quantum and photonics if the nation specialises and scales its priority sectors, according to chief scientist Dr Cathy...
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Theories of innovation serve as a framework for understanding how new ideas evolve into end user-ready products, services, or processes. There are five seminal theories that seek to explain...
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Cybersecurity has become a dinner table discussion point in Australia in the last year. The high-profile and devastating data breaches that have impacted some of the country’s largest companies...
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Digital ID precursor legislation that provides a legal basis for the government to operate its document and face matching systems has passed the lower house despite privacy concerns from...
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The Australian Strategic Capabilities Accelerator will commit an estimated $680 million over the next ten years to the research and development of emerging and disruptive technologies, according to its...
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Australia is facing a severe cybersecurity skills shortage at a time when the sector has never been more important to the economy or the lives of all people. According...
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The state enterprise in charge of Victoria’s rail infrastructure misled the government while convincing it to invest $82.5 million into commercialising unproven technology in partnership with Xerox, according to...
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21 research projects from 11 universities will share in $4.9 million in the pilot phase of Australia’s newest research commercialisation push, which has struggled to get off the ground...