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New DTA to link with Data61

Newly-appointed Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Gavin Slater – an ex-banker from Melbourne – will be spending plenty of time in airports in the coming months as the governments...

Identity remains the digital key

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The Government’s GovPass digital identity system will be firmly opt-in – citizens who don’t wish to use the streamlined platform and its biometric component won’t have to. According to...

Labor calls for gov’t tech review

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On digital transformation in government, bipartisanship has left the building. The Federal Opposition is calling for an independent, arms-length review of the government digital transformation efforts and its growing...

Ex-banker nabs DTA CEO role

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The Turnbull Government has named one-time National Australia Bank technology chief Gavin Slater as the new chief executive officer at its Digital Transformation Agency. Mr Slater had been a...

Public sector ICT is raining money

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It’s Christmas come early if you are a technology supplier to the Australian Government, with spending on ICT increasing by 50 per cent to $9 billion in the last...

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...