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Vic tech strategy missing in action

The roll-out of the Victorian Government’s ICT strategy has become a mystery, with key deadlines being missed and the Minister responsible having gone missing in action. Special Minister for...

ISA: Where are all the gazelles?

Australia ranks stone motherless last in one of the most critical measures listed in the Innovation and Science Australia report on how this country fares in creating wealth from...

Data61 cranks global talent drive

The uneasy relationship between the science and technology communities in the US and the Trump Administration – particularly over immigration – presents a huge opportunity for Australia to aggressively...

Strike action on CentrelinkFail

Centrelink staff will go on strike next week over the ongoing robo-debt fiasco with morale hitting rock bottom as a result of the program. Department of Human Services employees...

ISA report sets new benchmark

The sector’s most senior advisory board Innovation and Science Australia has unveiled a landmark review that tells us much about what we already know: We are pretty good at research...

Celebrating our next milestone

Last week we published our one hundredth newsletter, and what a ride it has been. The innovation and digital transformation space that we report on has been incredibly busy....

Regions a testbed for smart cities

Australia’s regional cities make the perfect testing environment for larger ‘smart city’ policies and projects, and should be used to deploy pilot programs before scaling public investment, according to...

On opaque NBN Co reporting

NBN Co is a text book example of why Government Business Enterprises (GBE) attract criticism. In 2017, the company’s government-appointed senior management team is set to bumble along with...

Sydney digital plan excludes CDO

The City of Sydney is about to release a new digital strategy – but even before release, it has been dismissed as lip service to genuine innovation. Councillor Jess...

What Wyatt Roy did next: Afiniti

Wyatt Roy has landed his first full-time role following political defeat at last year’s federal election, with the former assistant minister for innovation to lead a billion-dollar artificial intelligence...

TechnologyOne vs Brisbane City

An unpleasant stoush has broken out between Australia’s largest local government authority, Brisbane City Council, and Australia’s largest indigenous software supplier, TechnologyOne. The Council says TechnologyOne is not delivering...

Podcast: Shetler on transformation

It has been an extraordinary start to the year for digital transformation in the public sector. Certainly the very real failings of the Centrelink automated debt recovery system have...

Where oh where is the DTA?

We seem to have travelled a long way to get not very far in relation to the digital transformation of Australian Government services. It’s in pieces. The notion of...

Tech giants rise for Trump battle

In mid-December last year, then US President-Elect Donald Trump invited America’s leading technology executives and entrepreneurs to his golden eyrie in Trump Tower “I’m here to help you folks...