GovHack 2016 ended on a high note last weekend as the winning project teams from across Australia and New Zealand soaked up all the glory and fame at GovHack...
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Updated: Angus Taylor has outlined new details of the Commonwealth’s overhaul of its $5.6 billion annual ICT spend and committed to publishing a discussion paper on the changes from the...
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It is a national disgrace that must be born by every government since Bob Hawke’s that the Australian telecommunications market is still so effectively dominated by Telstra, which rakes...
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Start thinking ‘innovation as usual’ as the norm rather than the exception, and expressing innovation in terms of the business rather than the system. That’s the mind-set Victoria’s Lead...
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Vodafone Hutchison Australia CEO Iñaki Berroeta has used his 2016 Charles Todd Oration last week to announce that Vodafone would offer fixed broadband over the National Broadband Network (NBN)...
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Here’s a new phrase for you, from the jargon generation factory, otherwise known as research group Gartner. The firm’s latest predictions on the size and growth rate of the...
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This weekend marks the start of Spark Festival Sydney, which describes itself as “nine day celebration of Australian startup and entrepreneurship culture.” That’s if you come from New South...
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The changes wrought by Angus Taylor’s next phase in the Australian Government’s digital agenda marks the biggest overhaul in the Commonwealth’s information technology program in 20 years The next three...
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Last week’s announcement of the new Digital Transformation Agency reveals a sense of urgency and ambition on the part of Prime Minister Turnbull to drive better digital service delivery...
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No formal announcement has been made, but it is becoming increasingly obvious that NBN Co is looking at G.fast as the technology it will use to squeeze fibre-like speeds...
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Populist micro-parties and the reactionary forces that tap into fears about new technology and its impact on employment will continue to grow if government does not start talking in...
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In many ways the contrast between the vast resource-rich Australia and geographically tiny and resource-free Singapore could not be more stark. And yet the two countries are becoming ever...
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Taking over where the former Premier Peter Beattie’s Smart State vision left off, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Advance Queensland Program aims to make sure that Queensland stays on course to be...
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Mobile Virtual Network Operators are the forgotten victims of rampant overcharging and anti-competitive behaviour at the heart of the telco battle about whether or not domestic mobile roaming should...