Australian Information Industry Association Archives

Data Policy Skills

Tech workers: Front line of essential services

Debate is underway on how to apply key classes of technology worker to essential service definitions in the event that mandatory lock-downs are applied across Australia in order to...

AIIA, ACS and Engineers seek single voice

25 March 2020 | by James Riley

Three of the nation’s most powerful technology-related associations are in talks on formalising collaborative arrangements that would allow the tech industry and its professionals to present a single voice...

Tech giants launch SME support platform

25 March 2020 | by Denham Sadler

A new website has been launched offering free services from global tech giants for Australian businesses trying to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. The Australian Information Industry Association...

Digital disruption the APS should have seen

16 December 2019 | by Simon Bush

Canberra’s mandarins must be going into Christmas wondering what just happened; major departments have disappeared (merged) and secretaries sacked with more changes to come. However, the signposts were there...

AIIA appoints new policy chief

30 September 2019 | by Denham Sadler

The tech sector needs a more effective and influential voice in Canberra to avoid further “unintended consequences” in government legislation, according to the AIIA’s new policy advisor. Simon Bush,...

AIIA closes its Canberra office

6 August 2019 | by James Riley

The Australian Information Industry Association, the 40-year-old vendor-led peak body representing the tech sector, has quietly shuttered its Canberra office, losing two of its most senior executives in the...

Budget wish-list: R&D tax certainty

4 May 2018 | by James Riley

Reform of how Australia’s R&D tax incentive scheme is administered for startups sits at the top of the Budget wish-list for two peak tech industry groups. The Australian Information...

When delivery is a DTA disgrace

26 March 2018 | by James Riley

It is more than three years since the then-Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the creation of the Digital Transformation Office, detailing a bright future of better government services, delivered...

DTA MoU is easy ‘to tear up’

21 March 2018 | by James Riley

A Digital Transformation Agency access and marketing agreement signed with a Big Tech industry group was “ridiculous” and the “easiest thing to tear up” for an incoming government, according...

Thodey: More work needed on jobs

22 September 2017 | by Aimee Chanthadavong

Australians cannot just rely on government to set policies and frameworks if the country wants to be prepared for the impact of technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation...

Tag: Australian Information Industry Association