The federal government shunned its own website content management system in favour of Adobe when myGov was redeveloped due to its “limited functionality”, only to leave Adobe’s content personalisation...
Digital
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An independent audit of myGov has urged the federal government to commit long-term ongoing funding of more than $100 million a year to the platform to ensure it becomes...
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The Albanese government will restore the Australian Interactive Games Fund (AIGF) almost a decade after it was cut by the former Abbott government, pledging an initial investment of $12...
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Verifying the government-issued digital identity credentials of voters before they cast an electronic ballot is now “entirely appropriate”, according to the architect of the now-abandoned iVote platform, but any...
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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant has called for greater international collaboration in regulating harms online, arguing that it also makes good business sense to do so. Speaking at...
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US consulting giant Deloitte has landed a $5 million pay rise from the Australian Digital Health Agency for its work on a new platform for clinicians to exchange and...
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The removal of digital voting in New South Wales has left an “equity and inclusion vacuum” for the state’s blind and vision impaired voters, according to Vision Australia, which...
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Digital voting is not expected to resume in New South Wales until at least 2027, with the state government set to use the next four years to canvas technology...
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The federal government has inked a fresh deal with technology giant IBM at a cost of $725 million over the next five years after the former whole-of-government arrangement doubled...
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After three years, the Privacy Act Review commissioned under the Coalition government has been completed and the final report handed to Attorney General Mark Dreyfus. The Attorney General will...
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Adobe was decided as the software provider for the new myGov platform before the federal government had even devised a business case or approached the market, raising questions about...
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With a string of recent data breaches turning the spotlight on the fragility of physical identity credentials, finding a secure, privacy-enhancing method of verifying identity in an increasingly digital...
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The federal government’s long-promised myGov app has finally launched, complete with a new digital wallet offering users the ability to prove their identity with a service provider using a...
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New South Wales’ long-serving government chief information and digital officer Greg Wells will step down to become the new chief executive at service delivery agency Service NSW. Mr Wells,...