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Australia has world-class capabilities and world-leading investment in the storage and protection of critical data. Why aren’t we relying on ourselves?

A new disinformation register has been launched by the Australian Electoral Commission in a bid to debunk lies about federal election processes.

QAnon adherents, anti-government militias, sovereign citizens and jihadist and white supremacist groups have co-opted emerging communication technologies in a way that has security agencies such as the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation concerned. Non-state actors are using encrypted messaging applications that provide a cloak of secrecy to their activities that include the dissemination of propaganda, recruitment […]

Al Gore was in Brisbane last week to conduct climate change leadership training for about 800 people from across Australia and the Pacific. Here’s an extract from his presentation.

After a string of data breaches in 2018, privacy and protecting people’s information became a hot issue which shows no signs of abating. Digital privacy made a global 2019 top ten list of technology trends and GDPR was the data privacy acronym of the year.

It would be entirely forgivable for any government executive to feel a headache coming on, when the topic of cloud computing hits their to-do list. Where to start in realising the best value out of this crucial strategy?

Government departments would love to act as digitally dynamic and as fast as growing tech companies, but they have complex and aging systems to consider. That’s where a top class modern network can help.

The Digital Transformation Agency is putting its cloud-first policy into practice, becoming the first federal agency to embrace Microsoft’s newly-accredited secure cloud service.

Many experts believe that autonomous vehicles will be ready for public use on Australian roads by 2020. Operation of autonomous vehicles will be heavily reliant on a robust cloud system that enables
vehicles to communicate with infrastructure in order to navigate its surroundings safely. While
autonomous driving technology from an automotive standpoint exists today, infrastructure still has
some way to go in supporting this technology beyond controlled trials.

The ACCC inquiry into the impact of big tech platforms like Google and Facebook on the media will be an opportunity to frame a new competitive framework for the digital economy. It also promises to be a major battle between the media and tech sectors.

The big tech review is a useful clean up of the notoriously clunky procurement system and a good start to getting more value for the Commonwealth’s $6.5 billion annual spend. But to really succeed we need deep leadership commitment to remake government for the 21st century.

Strategic commissioning has emerged as a mechanism in government for framing how value should be created, delivered, captured and governed.