Tag: DTA

Industry dept adds email subscriptions

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The Industry department has launched an email subscription service following concerns about a lack of transparency and access to consultations. Labor raised concerns earlier this year that the Department...

App server code needed for transparency

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The code for the COVID-19 contact tracing app national database and algorithm used to sort through contacts needs to be made public so its security can be fully and...

COVIDSafe code released, but developers unhappy

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The source code for Australia’s COVID-19 contact tracing app has finally been publicly released, but a group of developers scrutinising the service say it has not been properly open...

Deloitte lands $9.5m for 7 month myGov beta

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Consulting giant Deloitte has been handed a $9.5 million contract to further develop its own prototype for a revamped, social network-inspired myGov platform into a working beta product over...

We are missing Paul Shetler in this crisis

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Malcolm Turnbull describes the Australian government’s former digital tsar Paul Shetler as a “brilliant technocrat” who ultimately did not have the right set of management skills to lead the...

‘Inconceivable’ US could access tracing data

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
It is “inconceivable” that US authorities would be able to access data from Australia’s contact tracing app, but the government’s legal advice on the matter will not be made...

Big bucks on open source COVIDsafe app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Private contractors were paid nearly $2 million to work on the federal government’s COVID-19 contact tracing app, while the firm behind the official information app was given an additional...

Atlassian and the CovidSafe team

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australian tech darling Atlassian is among the five private companies that helped the federal government build its COVID-19 contact tracing app. More than two million people have now downloaded...

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...