WorkSafe Victoria and creative agency Naked have developed a new awareness campaign designed to encourage young employees to speak up if they feel unsafe at work. [ + ]

Adelaide has taken a step towards becoming Australia's first Gig City, signing up with smart city initiator and internet application development organisation US Ignite. [ + ]

The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has approved a $395 million contract with 8common to adopt the Expense8 travel and expense management platform. [ + ]

Port of Townsville has implemented TechnologyOne's Enterprise Content Management solution, giving it a single enterprise-wide solution. [ + ]

Cognizant will establish a Digital Works Collaboratory in Melbourne, a dedicated space for businesses to design and build digital solutions. [ + ]

It has been revealed that 71% of devices do not provide a privacy policy that adequately explains how personal information is managed. [ + ]

A WA parliamentary committee has recommended that a body be established to oversee the potentially $3bn worth of contracts that could be issued under the GovNext-ICT program. [ + ]

The ABS had contracted IBM to put in place DDoS protections to prevent the kind of incident that led to last month's census site outage, and had been assured by the vendor that the risk had been mitigated. [ + ]

QPC has been contracted to supply managed services for contact centre and telephony applications infrastructure at Toowoomba Regional Council. [ + ]

Alcidion Group will roll out its Miya platform across the Royal Darwin and Alice Springs Hospitals after signing a $525,000 contract with the Northern Territory Department of Health. [ + ]

The government has appointed two new international experts to the board of Innovation Australia, which is transitioning to Innovation and Science Australia. [ + ]

US state CIOs and CISOs are making progress educating officials about cybersecurity risks and practices, but are struggling with miniscule security budgets, a new report finds. [ + ]

The ongoing trend towards US state governments outsourcing IT functions and consolidating base stations is compelling state CIOs to evolve into technology brokers rather than providers. [ + ]

The Australian Public Service plans to directly adopt the European standard on accessibility of sourced ICT products and services for employees with disabilities. [ + ]

The leader of the GovDC project to consolidate the NSW Government's data centres into two central facilities, Pedro Harris, will resign from his role at the end of next month. [ + ]