Tag: Digital Transformation Agency

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McKinsey lands $1m three-month myGov deal

The federal government will pay consulting giant McKinsey nearly $1 million to develop a business case for its Facebook-inspired myGov update over the next three months. The Digital Transformation...

APS maps new digital career paths

Posted on   |  by Elise McDonald
A new ‘Digital Professional Stream Strategy will be implemented across the public service to attract new tech savvy professionals and lift the public services’s digital skills game. Launched by...

AWS tracing deal a disgrace: Rex Patrick

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The contract handed to American tech giant Amazon to handle the cloud storage of data from the COVID-19 contact tracing app is a “disgrace” and more must done to...

Govt paid $3m for COVID info app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government spent more than $3 million on the development of the COVID-19 information app developed by a Canberra tech company in two weeks following a closed tender...

Contact tracing privacy report due this week

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A privacy report on the government’s controversial contact tracing app will be released this week, with the app’s source code also to be made public and scrutinised as the...

First local tracing prototype app launched

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Not enough people will download the government’s COVID-19 contact tracing app unless it adopts a “total privacy” model, the developer of a local version of the technology has warned....

Contact tracing app expected in weeks

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
A Bluetooth-based contact tracing app is being developed through the federal Digital Transformation Agency and will be launched within weeks by the federal government. Media organisations were provided details...

Govt paid $2m for COVID info app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government paid a local mobile-first digital services company nearly $2 million to build its official COVID-19 information app. Canberra-based tech firm Delv was contracted by the Digital...

Govt considers Apple-Google trace plan

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is considering using the new technology-based COVID-19 contact tracing framework to be provided via an Apple and Google collaboration, as it appears set to launch an...

Push for pan-Europe contact tracing app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The European Union’s privacy commissioner has called for the coordinated use of COVID-19 contact tracing apps to ensure privacy is upheld as much as possible. European Data Protection Supervisor...