The preliminary program for the inaugural Smart Cities Week Australia has been released. [ + ]

The Australian Smart Communities Association is looking for volunteer experts to fill a variety of roles within the organisation. [ + ]

MobileMuster has named the District Council of Kimba the National Top Collector per Capita for mobile phone recycling. [ + ]

A former butter factory will be given a $12 million transformation into a world-class innovation hub. [ + ]

Spookfish has won a contract to provide high-resolution aerial imagery of the state's major metro areas to NSW Spatial Services. [ + ]

South Australia is introducing its first driverless electric shuttle for public roads. [ + ]

A new high-tech payment method is being rolled out on public transport across Queensland. [ + ]

Angus Taylor says Australia can become one of the world's top three digital governments by 2025, but it must learn from best practice overseas. [ + ]

The Northern Territory Government has released a tender seeking to lease space in a Darwin data centre to provide backup to its relocating primary data centre [ + ]

The federal government is harnessing data to better plan major national infrastructure projects. [ + ]

Adelaide's City of Burnside has developed an online interactive map for the Adelaide local government area's Urban Forest of public street and park trees. [ + ]

DocuSign's three new Australian data centres will be prioritised for public sector customers. [ + ]

The Digital Transformation Agency is inviting feedback on a proposed revamp of the government's ICT procurement panel policy [ + ]

The Digital Transformation Agency has selected the next seven APS Data Fellows to be embedded at the CSIRO's Data61 data innovation group. [ + ]

The Municipal Association of Victoria has launched a new website to provide information and resources for the community. [ + ]