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Telehealth and the tale of two pandemics

More than 400 million people globally have it. 18 million people will die every year from it. By 2030, the estimated global costs is a staggering $1 trillion. COVID-19?...

Govt orders $31m in Aust built respirators

The federal government has reached a $31 million agreement with a consortium of manufacturers and engineering firms led by Victorian design engineers Grey Innovation to produce 2,000 ventilators by...

Entrepreneur Programme gets $110m revamp

In a massive revamp of its flagship Entrepreneurs Programme, the Industry department has awarded four tender contracts worth a combined $110 million for delivering the program’s commercial outcomes. The...

JobKeeper carve out for high growth startups

High-growth companies that have been impacted by the health and economic crisis have been thrown a lifeline with a special carve-out to access the historic $130 billion JobKeeper package...

Push for pan-Europe contact tracing app

The European Union’s privacy commissioner has called for the coordinated use of COVID-19 contact tracing apps to ensure privacy is upheld as much as possible. European Data Protection Supervisor...

Telehealth roll-out should be permanent

The rapid expansion in the use of telehealth due to the COVID-19 pandemic could transform healthcare in Australia in the longer-term, and many of the recent policy changes should...

Re-making startup support for new era

The era of the standard co-working space is over. Any organisation that thinks it can just provide desks, wi-fi and fresh juice in mason jars or beer on tap...

SafetyCulture is the latest Aussie unicorn

SafetyCulture is officially Australia’s newest unicorn after the Queensland-based tech company closed a $60.5 million funding round. According to the company, the Series C-1 round valued the company, which...

Tech lessons from our summer of crises

Australia should adopt an emergency mass communications system similar to what is used in the US to better manage future crises, according to BlackBerry IoT Solutions managing director David...

ICU ventilators: why it’s hard to make more

Around the world, people are racing to design and manufacture much-needed ventilators to address a global lack of supply. One New York hospital has reportedly attempted treating two patients per ventilator...

Dealing With Disruption: A Digital Nudge

Way back in 2016, the SAP Institute for Digital Government (SIDG) collaborated with the Australian National University (ANU) on the topic of ‘The Digital Nudge in Social Security Administration‘....

Myriota closes $28m Series B round

Former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has invested in Adelaide space startup Myriota as it looks to expand its “critical” satellite IoT technology around the world during a time of...

DTA hiring spree for ‘secret’ digital product

The Digital Transformation Agency has embarked on a hiring spree for a new team to work on a mysterious project to develop a “national citizen facing digital platform”. The...

Global data-sharing deal ‘deeply flawed’

Legislation paving the way for a data-sharing deal with the US is “deeply flawed” and provides a “framework for future abuse”, according to the Australian Privacy Foundation. The Parliamentary...