Tag: The Gig Guide

The Gig Guide: Home Affairs reshuffles top ranks

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
A sweeping leadership shake-up at the Department of Home Affairs has reshaped its top executive team, cementing a stronger focus on national security, digital infrastructure and multicultural affairs. The...

The Gig Guide: Experts join data standards committee

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The federal government has appointed a new 18-member advisory committee of data standards experts to advise on Australia’s digital identity and Consumer Data Right schemes. The Data Standards Advisory...

The Gig Guide: Australia’s top bureaucrat resigns

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Glyn Davis, secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, has resigned after serving the last three years as Australia’s top public servant. Professor Davis’s resignation will...

The Gig Guide: ATN appoints new chair

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
The Australian Technology Network (ATN) of Universities has appointed former  chief defence scientist and University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor Professor Alex Zelinsky AO as its new chair. Professor Zelinsky will...

The Gig Guide: TfNSW tech chief departs

Posted on   |  by Trish Everingham
Transport for NSW’s (TfNSW’s) chief technology and innovation officer, Kurt Brissett has departed the agency after 9 years to join property developer Built as its chief digital and information...

Gig Guide: NSW locks in a new privacy commissioner

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
New South Wales has a new privacy commissioner in Sonia Minutillo, who has led the Information and Privacy Commission NSW’s regulatory functions for the best part of a decade....

Gig Guide: NSW appoints its next cyber chief

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The New South Wales government has tapped Sydney Metro enterprise security leader Marie Patane to take over the challenging role of securing the state’s critical systems and data holdings....

Gig Guide: IISA chair steps down, Oppermann takes data job

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Former NSW chief data scientist Ian Oppermann has been appointed the federal government’s new Data Standards Chair for Digital ID and the Consumer Data Right in the first shakeup...

Gig Guide: NSW data guru Ian Oppermann out

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
New South Wales’ first-ever chief data scientist Ian Oppermann is hanging up his boots after more than eight years in the role to join the technology advisory firm set...