Tag: Data61

Making sense of industry research collaboration

Posted on   |  by Alan Dormer
The Australian government is spending an increasing proportion of its ‘research’ funding on collaborative programs including Cooperative Research Centres, Industry Transformation Research and Teaching Hubs, and Linkage grants. The...

Stone & Chalk acquires Ribit matchmaker

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Ribit, the digital student job and internship matchmaking service set up by the CSIRO’s Data61 as part of funding from the federal Digital Careers program has been acquired by...

Mixed finding on COVIDSafe privacy: Research

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The researchers behind a new report used by the federal government to tout COVIDSafe as “the most secure” contact tracing app in the world say that a decentralised model...

Data61’s Whittle marks a change in focus

Posted on   |  by James Riley
With the appointment of Professor Jon Whittle as director, the CSIRO’s Data61 unit has taken a sharp turn, and at face value at least, softens the drive toward commercial...

NSW creates Western Sydney digital twin

Posted on   |  by Stuart Corner
NSW Customer Service Minister Victor Dominello has unveiled the NSW Spatial Digital Twin, promising the tool would improve urban planning by providing real-time information and visualisation of urban infrastructure...

Govt blockchain roadmap underwhelms

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s new blockchain roadmap is “disappointing” and “lacks vision” according to blockchain adviser and FinTech Australia chair Alan Tsen. Industry Minister Karen Andrews released the National Blockchain...

Alan Noble on the StartupAUS origins

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The first Crossroads report, published in April 2014, contained a foreword written by Adrian Turner that started with the line “Australia is facing some tough decisions that will define...

Adrian Turner on structural change

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian economy is at a “pivotal fork in the road” and the next three to five years will decide whether the nation is able to extract its share...

Data61 and the new CSIRO role

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s home-grown technology sector is half the size of our global peers as a percentage of gross domestic product, four times smaller than the US (as a percentage of...