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  • FST Media
  • 25 February 2020
The Federal Government has announced a new whole-of-government volume sourcing agreement (VSA) with software developer Rimini Street, expected to make agencies’ access to third-party software support cheaper and simpler. VSAs provide standard terms, pricing, and licensing conditions for a signed...
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  • FST Media
  • 25 February 2020
NSW Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello has officially launched the NSW Spatial Digital Twin, a digital mapping tool set to increase efficiency and reduce the cost of infrastructure planning and development across the state. The Data61-developed digital twin project...
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  • FST Media
  • 25 February 2020
Penrith City Council has enlisted tech giant Microsoft to expand its existing cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system, readying the Western Sydney-based local government for a predicted population and jobs boom. Following last year’s successful deployment of Microsoft’s Dynamics 365...
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  • FST Media
  • 12 February 2020
Watercare, an Auckland council-owned water utility company, has enlisted Viotel in a three-year deal to install IoT seismic monitoring sensors across the Auckland region’s dams, reservoirs, and critical infrastructure. Viotel, a data services company which specialises in large-scale engineering projects,...
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  • FST Media
  • 10 February 2020
The federal Department of Finance has announced its intention to design and build a new whole-of-government enterprise resource management (ERP) system, effectively consolidating core transactional services across the public service into a single platform. Dubbed GovERP, the initiative will be...
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  • FST Media
  • 10 February 2020
A significant number of government Chief Information Officers (CIOs) say they are struggling to manage digital disruption, stressing further that they lack the funds to effectively lead the transition, according to a recent global survey of public sector CIOs. Government...
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  • FST Media
  • 30 January 2020
Tasmania will play host to its first Cyber Security Innovation Node, with government-funded cybersecurity support network AustCyber announcing the launch of its latest hub in its nation-wide cyber-defensive ring. Part of AustCyber’s national network of cybersecurity Innovation Nodes, with each...
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  • FST Media
  • 30 January 2020
Tasmania’s ‘second city’ will roll out a new $6.8 million smart traffic monitoring and signalling system, to be funded as part of the Federal and State Government Launceston City Deal initiative. The new system, which live streams traffic in real-time,...
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  • FST Media
  • 29 January 2020
Dr Dale Lambert, chief of cyber and electronic warfare at Defence Science Technology (DST), has been awarded a Public Service Medal for his work developing artificial intelligence in surveillance and reconnaissance, command and control, intelligence and autonomous platforms. The DST,...
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  • FST Media
  • 11 December 2019
The Federal Government’s Digital Transformation Agency has released the fourth iteration of its Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF), requesting public feedback to assess its latest release.  
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  • FST Media
  • 11 December 2019
The Federal Government has announced it has opened grant applications for two out the seven proposed infrastructure projects as part of its Space Infrastructure Fund (SIF).  
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  • FST Media
  • 11 December 2019
New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) will maintain course with the revamp of its digital transformation agency, announcing it has permanently appointed Ann-Marie Cavanagh as its deputy chief digital officer and deputy chief executive of service and system transformation....
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  • FST Media
  • 10 December 2019
Tim Kelsey has announced he will step down as chief executive of the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) after three and a half years at the helm.  
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  • FST Media
  • 28 November 2019
The NSW Government has announced a new real-time service to track rough sleepers across the state, hoping to use the data to coordinate a range of support services for the at-risk group.  
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  • FST Media
  • 27 November 2019
Estonia’s chief data officer has urged Australian legislators to resist “overregulation” of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, fearing a heavy-handed approach would stymie development of state-backed AI initiatives – innovations critical to progressing eGovernment in Australia.  
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