Industry News
Sydney businesses incentivised to increase renewable energy
City of Sydney will put $750,000 towards an innovative $2.25 million Ausgrid grant program to reduce demand for electricity and carbon emissions in Sydney. [ + ]
AIIA, DTA sign transformation MoU
The AIIA–DTA memorandum of understanding is designed to explore ways to improve delivery of the government's digital transformation agenda. [ + ]
Have I Been Pwned to monitor govt domains
The Australian Cyber Security Centre has arranged to have all Australian Government domains monitored for security leaks using Have I Been Pwned. [ + ]
Logan City calls for strategy feedback
Logan City Council has released a Draft City Futures Strategy and is calling for feedback by 18 March. [ + ]
Secure IT lifecycle facility opened in Canberra
Greenbox Systems' IT Commissioning Centre will provide secure services backed by Defence standards, and ISO and R2 accreditations. [ + ]
Future cities on agenda at MAV conferences
Two Municipal Association of Victoria conferences next week will canvass trends, solutions and goals for creating smarter, more livable communities. [ + ]
Government IT hiring day a success
An innovative US government recruitment drive has successfully attracted skilled cybersecurity workers. [ + ]
Queensland councils get digital boost
The Local Government Association of Queensland has formed a partnership with Jadu to power the majority of the state's council websites and intranets. [ + ]
Data#3 wins government-wide Microsoft contract
The DTA has selected Data#3 as the sole provider of Microsoft licensing solutions to the federal government. [ + ]
DTA's one-stop hardware marketplace
The Digital Transformation Agency is working on a new marketplace to progressively replace the existing three hardware procurement panels. [ + ]
More education institutions sign up for GovDC
The University of New South Wales, University of New England and Catholic Education Network have chosen GovDC to be their primary data centre provider. [ + ]
Free tool enables data benchmarking
A free tool for Queensland councils to analyse and benchmark their performance has been updated with new data and features. [ + ]
Queensland passes facial biometrics bill
In time for the Commonwealth Games, Queensland has become the first state to allow police access to shared facial biometric services. [ + ]
BoM staff questioned over crypto mining
Two BoM employees are reportedly being investigated by the AFP over the potential misuse of government computing resources for cryptocurrency mining. [ + ]
Adelaide's first Ten Gigabit buildings connected
The first CBD buildings have been connected to Adelaide's Ten Gigabit fibre-optic network, with up to 1000 more to come. [ + ]
