Tag: Angus Taylor

Growing demand for IoT standards

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The technologies used to improve city services will require standards-based interoperability and security protocols to take advantage of truly smart cities potential, Giant Ideas director Catherine Caruana-McManus said. Speaking...

Aussies get spooky cloud creds

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Two local tech companies have been certified to store classified government data on their services as the federal government continues its move to cloud storage. Canberra-based companies Vault Systems...

The Snowy Hydro and cities policy

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The Snowy Hydro expansion is an example of how good cities policies aren’t properly realised until decades in the future, Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation Angus Taylor...

Cities policy needs tech standards

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The three levels of government in Australia will need to work in tight cooperation on cities policy and investment if the nation is to extract the maximum benefit from...

Thodey review of PM&C queried

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Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Husic has called for the public release of a little-known review of federal government digital transformation efforts that ultimately led to the radical restructure of...

DTA grilling: What we learned

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Malcolm Turnbull’s pet project, the Digital Transformation Agency, was put under intense scrutiny at the Senate Estimates last week, with revelations the organisation no longer sees itself as a...

DTA goes back to the future

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Four months after plans were unveiled for a powerful new program management office within the Digital Transformation Agency to oversee the Commonwealth’s $6 billion-plus annual technology spend, the unit...

An own goal on digital progress

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The government has formally tried to congratulate itself in the Parliament on its digital transformation of services in a sign of either “irony or grand self-delusion,” according to the...

Celebrating our next milestone

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Last week we published our one hundredth newsletter, and what a ride it has been. The innovation and digital transformation space that we report on has been incredibly busy....