Author: Justin Hendry

DTA extends Oracle deal as contracts surge $100m

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The Digital Transformation Agency has extended its whole-of-government sourcing deal with global tech giant Oracle, capping off a year in which the value of the arrangement grew almost $100...

Vic govt backs local medtech pioneer with $2m investment

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Breakthrough Victoria has invested $2 million in Cyban, a Melbourne-based medtech startup pioneering a way to monitor brain oxygen levels without invasive surgery. The investment through the state’s $2...

Big Tech facing ex ante competition regime in Australia

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Amazon, Apple, Google and other Big Tech companies face the prospect of an EU-style ex ante digital competition regime in Australia after the federal government agreed to progress work...

The rise of the ‘Responsible AI Office’ 

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
“I advocate that every company form a Responsible AI Office,” Balakrishna D.R. (Bali) said, underscoring its crucial role in steering AI-first strategies safely through the quagmire of data privacy,...

Advanced Navigation to make its own photonics chips

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AI robotics innovator Advanced Navigation plans to become Australia’s first mass producer of photonic chips after receiving a grant from the Department of Defence to kickstart the sovereign capability. Photonics...

‘Far from perfect’ face matching laws pass Parliament

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Companies will be able to use face matching systems operated by the federal government to verify a person’s identity after controversial legislation passed Parliament with almost 40 privacy-focused amendments....

SAP cost comparison led to GovERP’s downfall

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The high cost of pushing SAP into Canberra’s legion of smaller, less complex agencies was behind the federal government’s recent decision to abandon its enterprise resource planning system (ERP)...

CSIRO’s magic formula for kickstarting SME success

Posted on   |  by Nicole Bittar
Connecting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with Australia’s brightest minds is a delicate process involving research partnerships, facilitation, funding and collaborative guidance.   This is where Australia’s national science agency...