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A dashboard with little digital data

Government agencies are failing to upload data to the Digital Transformation Agency’s digital dashboard and many are not providing any information at all, hampering efforts to improve transparency and...

What makes a good tech precinct?

Government should take a leadership role in building the cultural and liveability infrastructure needed to develop innovation precincts, but more direct public support for them also helps underpin success,...

SA Premier joins Civic Nation 2018

South Australian Premier Steven Marshall has joined the program at the innovation and social policy summit Civic Nation to deliver the opening keynote address. Mr Marshall, who led the...

Digital iD founder quits AusPost

The founder and general manager of Australia Post’s Digital iD program has left the organisation as the market-leading project faces funding cuts and a shrinking team. InnovationAus.com understands the...

Policies to build a data economy

Australia has a rare opportunity to capture a disproportionately large proportion of emerging data economy, according to Reinventure Group co-founder and managing director Danny Gilligan. But the effort is...

ACS to keep its tax-free status

The Australian Computer Society says that its leap into the tech commercialisation space won’t impact its status as a charity status with the regulator, even though it has plans...

Blow-back on encryption laws

The federal government’s controversial anti-encryption bill gives “extraordinary powers of unprecedented scope” and may serve to “undermine public safety”, according to some of the biggest tech companies in the...

STEM diversity an economic necessity

Improving gender diversity in Australia’s STEM workforce is an “economic necessity” that required a “cohesive, holistic and sustained approach” to achieve, according to the Academy of Science. The Academy...

Dominello and the RegTech effect

New South Wales Finance Minister Victor Dominello will deliver the 2018 ministerial keynote address at the InnovationAus.com RegTech forum, outlining the state’s program and deregulation and digital service delivery....

StartupLand posts capital record

Australian startups and fast growing tech companies raised more than $3.5 billion across more than 730 separate investments in the financial year to the end of June, according to...

Deep tech faces up to skills gap

Australia’s deep tech sector is facing a ‘huge’ talent gap as the country’s biggest incubator in the space looks to keep promising companies from relocating overseas. Cicada Innovations, an...

Settling confusion on City Deal plan

The Australia and New Zealand branch of the Smart Cities Council will release a paper next month to help state and local governments, and property developers understand core smart...

Equity crowdfund laws – final steps

The federal government’s long-awaited equity crowdfunding reforms are set to be passed by Parliament this week, a year after they were first introduced. The Corporations Amendment (Crowd-sourced Funding for...

Victorian cyber focus sharpened

There has been a groundswell of attention and support for cybersecurity in the Victorian government, with recent high-profile breaches serving as a wake-up call for public servants, according to...