NSW Innovation Minister Victor Dominello last week announced the development of a centralised Data Analytics Centre that is to become a centre of excellence for government data management and...
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There has been plenty of noise about Australia’s free trade agreement with China, the awkward looking ChAFTA, in the eight weeks since it was signed in mid-June. But there...
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The ninth annual ‘Technology in Government’ conference and exhibition has closed its doors in Canberra for another year after two days of deliberations that focused on the key themes...
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An Australian expense management and analytics software developer Smartbill has cracked the Australian Government market with a potentially huge win at the Department of Human Services, which the company...
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The ‘Reinvention program’ at the Australian Taxation Office is as much about changing culture as introducing new technology, the ATO chief information officer Jane King said. Speaking at the...
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Telstra has opened a new R&D facility in Melbourne, and unveiled a joint venture with US transformation specialist Pivotal to build cloud software in Sydney. Australia’s largest telco made...
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The Prime Minister has signalled that he wants Australia to be an infrastructure leader. The Governor of the Reserve Bank has stated we need more infrastructure investment. And every...
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The change agents within the UK’s Government Digital Service have so far reduced the British Government’s £16 billion annual technology spend by £1 billion since the agency was established...
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The Australian Public Service should be readying itself for a radical shake-up, if the directions taken in the UK and the US are anything to go by. It is...
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If public service cultural issues lay at the heart of the challenge for digital transformation in government, then inflexible procurement practices sits right beside it, former US Government Chief...
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National Australia Bank has announced a $50 million investment fund called NAB Ventures to design and build new banking systems. “The fund will enable us to access leading ideas...
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Consultancy group Cap Gemini and research firm Altimeter have produced an excellent report on innovation, and the way in which companies use innovation centres to ensure their R&D remains...
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Hong Kong has dramatically stepped up efforts to attract global founders to the former British colony to build companies, using its proximity to the electronics manufacturing industry in China...
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No amount of hand-wringing over protecting your intellectual property in China is going to help build your company, and the notion that you can be globally focused and somehow...