Author: Justin Hendry

Dominello’s swan song: Digital ID our ‘Holy Grail’

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Outgoing NSW digital minister Victor Dominello has used his last ministerial address to champion the state’s forthcoming decentralised digital identity system as a lever for “huge micro-economic reform”. Mr...

My Health Record app launches at last

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
The federal government has launched its My Health Record mobile app a year later than first planned to improve access to the digital health record that has long been...

Rod Sims to chair National Data Advisory Council

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Former competition watchdog Rod Sims will chair the council tasked with advising the National Data Commissioner on issues relating to the federal government’s new data sharing scheme. Mr Sims,...

Shorten gets on board Estonia’s digital bandwagon

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Government services minister Bill Shorten will push the Treasurer for investment in a “distributed, services orientated architecture” after a study tour to leading digital nations in Europe last year....

NSW set to pilot digital birth certificates

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The New South Wales government will pilot its digital birth certificate with two cohorts of users from April before expanding the opt-in credential to other citizens within the state...

Technology distrust the most pressing decoupling issue

Posted on   |  by Dr Miah Hammond-Errey
We’ve seen action by global leaders to make supply chains more resilient and secure technologies critical to national interests, such as US banning high end chip fabrication technology exports...