Tag: Marie Johnson

‘Unethical’: NDIS participants ‘lured’ into trials

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
NDIS participants, including some with intellectual disabilities, were “lured” into participating in trials of the controversial new independent assessments with “scam-like” text messages, former NDIS Technology Authority chief Marie...

Make transparency an election issue to drive change

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Transparency in government must become an election issue to bring about meaningful change, according to experts, who expressed concern about an ongoing trend towards opacity and consequence free political...

‘Guinea pigs’: Govt readies to launch NDIS app

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government is preparing to launch an NDIS app within months, amid concerns raised by former NDIS Technology Authority chief Marie Johnson that experimentations with new technologies through...

Transparency in Govt; The challenge of data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
In an era where technology and the proliferation of data is creating valuable insights for businesses and consumers to understand the world around them, our visibility of government remains...

‘Dangerous future’ in NDIS tech experimentation

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
There is a lack of ethics and oversight in the government’s experimentation with new technologies through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) that could lead to significant human rights...

It’s not about the news: It’s techno politics

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
I am forced to live in two parallel worlds. One world is served by an expensive and unreliable NBN where on the weekend in Canberra the speed was 18Mbps...

Moon shots lost in Australia’s ‘adopter’ strategy

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
Like millions of kids around the world, I was completely and utterly captivated with the Apollo program. I was consumed with the excitement. I read everything. I watched everything...

Australia and our fractured digital future

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
Australia’s digitally branded budget is being breathlessly marketed to drive Australia towards becoming a leading digital economy by 2030. Except that the plan is twenty years too late, and...

We need to chat about chatbots

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
I’m curious as to what the colour of a chatbot t-shirt has to do with service delivery. In recent years, the ranks of the Australian Government’s chatbot brigade has...