Tag: data

EY’s ATO big data deal grows $47m in a year

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Big four consulting firm EY will be paid another $7.7 million to provide IT data and analytics services to the tax office after it extended a lucrative contract that...

Govt flags ‘significant’ ICT spend in federal Budget

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Albanese government has flagged “significant” funding for several digital and ICT projects in next week’s federal Budget, even as its targets a historic back-to-back surplus. On Monday, Finance...

Defence to spend $1bn a year on ICT

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Defence will nearly double its planned investments in enterprise ICT compared to 2020, expecting to spend up to $1 billion annually after changes to its digital governance. Total planned...

‘Innovation baton’ passes from large firms to SMEs

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Small and medium-sized enterprises now spend more on research and development than large businesses, with the growth of local venture capital and government support helping to alleviate some financing...

Heavy lifting needed on data sharing, but not by banks

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
Here’s a philosophical question for the times: If a national economy-wide digital economy platform initiative is suffering a slow, tortured death – and no one notices – should it...

CSIRO argues the case for local AI foundation models

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Researchers at Australia’s national science agency are “bullish” on the potential productivity gains to be had from developing foundation AI models in Australia, and say that building sovereign capability...

Big Tech and the intelligence power shift since MH17

Posted on   |  by Jason Stevens
Investigating MH17 unlocked the role of big data in assembling a criminal brief, pioneering the use of open-source intelligence.   “I became interested in how big data was being used...

$140m for WA digital twin development program

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Western Australian government has set aside $140 million over the next decade to deliver a digital twin that will eventually be made available for public and private sector...