Editor @Innov_Aus, formerly @iTnews_au. Advocate of transformative politics. Occasional pessimist. Tips? Signal: justin.247 or justin@innovationaus.com
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German supermarket trials charging true climate cost of foods theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
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As robodebt imploded, Services Australia mandated ‘Roboto’ as its primary brand typeface.
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Last week's Budget redirected funding for one of four hubs set up to harden the cyber resilience of federal government agencies. Turns out the entire project has been scrapped innovationaus.com/80m-govern…
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Only a handful of federal government departments and agencies with responsibilities for front-facing digital services have opened the door to security researchers to report bugs in the nine months since vulnerability disclosure programs were mandated. innovationaus.com/ethical-ha…
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The largest provider of data centre services to the federal government, has publicly revealed its greenhouse gas emissions for the first time but is continuing its fight to have data from a previous year kept secret.
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NSW residents will be able to add their Medicare cards to the Service NSW app and view their digital driver’s licences in myGov after the federal and state governments struck an agreement to work more closely on digital.
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Industry minister Ed Husic has asked his department to report weekly on the progress it has made signing off grants that were awarded through the former Morrison government’s $1.3 billion Modern Manufacturing Initiative. innovationaus.com/industry-d…
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US consulting giant Deloitte has landed a $5 million pay rise from the Australian Digital Health Agency for its work on a new platform for clinicians to exchange and access health information. innovationaus.com/deloitte-g…
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Digital voting is not expected to resume in NSW until at least 2027, with the state government set to use the next four years to canvas technology options and address underlying concerns. innovationaus.com/no-return-…
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The federal government has inked a fresh deal with IBM at a cost of $725 million over the next five years after the former whole-of-government arrangement doubled in value to more than $2 billion. innovationaus.com/dta-renews…
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A cloud-based enterprise student management system that was delivered to Defence 18 months ago has been abandoned after a review found it was “unable to achieve the capability outcomes without significant investment”. innovationaus.com/defence-qu…
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Adobe was decided as the software provider for the new myGov platform before the federal government had even devised a business case or approached the market, raising questions about a project that has now cost at least $80 million. innovationaus.com/dta-mandat…
Western Australia will appoint its first-ever Privacy Commissioner and introduce a mandatory data breach notification scheme similar to that of New South Wales as part of proposed public sector privacy laws.
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Consulting giants Accenture and Deloitte and DXC have been brought in to work on the final phase of Defence’s multi-billion-dollar enterprise resource planning (ERP) system project. innovationaus.com/consulting…
The NSW government will push for changes to Commonwealth laws to prevent cybersecurity researchers being prosecuted for reporting potential bugs and vulnerabilities in “good faith”. innovationaus.com/nsw-govt-e…
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NSW will have Australia’s first mandatory data breach notification scheme for public sector entities in place within a year after state government legislation passed Parliament. innovationaus.com/nsw-gets-f…
The NSW government will begin testing the photo verification technology that will underpin its answer to digital identity through a series of pilot programs slated for launch later this month. innovationaus.com/nsw-govt-s…
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A consumer-facing My Health Record smartphone app built for the federal government has hit further delays and is now not expected to be publicly released until early 2023, a year later than first planned. innovationaus.com/new-delays…
Legislation to establish NSW’s long-promised mandatory data breach notification scheme for public sector entities has been introduced to Parliament, bringing Australia’s first state-based reporting regime closer to reality. innovationaus.com/mandatory-…
Extending the Privacy Act to offshore data collection where it relates to Australians goes beyond that of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, according to a handful of tech giants and industry groups. innovationaus.com/big-tech-t…