Industry News
Victoria launches home learning website
The Learning From Home website provides curriculum-based resources suitable for students from early childhood to secondary school. [ + ]
DTA provides details of myGov Update tender
The Digital Transformation Agency has provided details of its planned myGov Update project, including criteria for selecting a systems integrator partner. [ + ]
ASCA postpones Smart Cities conference
The Australian Smart Communities Association has postponed its Smart Cities conference as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. [ + ]
DTA plans parallel myGov platform
The DTA is on the hunt for a systems integrator to lead a project to develop the planned Government Digital Experiences Platform. [ + ]
Services Australia gets its first permanent CEO
The recently established new government super-department, Services Australia, has a new head, with Rebecca Skinner taking on the role of CEO on 16 March. [ + ]
Aerometrex picks up $1m in Qld contracts
Aerometrex has picked up $1m in contracts to provide imagery for the Queensland Government's Spatial Imagery Subscription Program. [ + ]
IT institute discloses major data breach
Melbourne Polytechnic has advised of a major data breach involving the unauthorised access of files containing personal data of around 55,000 staff and students. [ + ]
SA aims to sell or offload AddInsight software
The South Australian Government is calling for expressions of interest aimed at the potential offloading of the AddInsight road traffic monitoring software. [ + ]
Public sector innovation on show in Canberra
This year's Australian Public Sector Innovation Show on 31 March will focus on overcoming the challenges being faced by government IT experts. [ + ]
DTA opens 2021 Digital Graduate Program applications
Australia's Digital Transformation Agency has opened applications for its Digital Graduate Program to help ICT graduates kickstart their career in government tech. [ + ]
Defence enlists Sliced Tech for student management system
Australia's Department of Defence has contracted Sliced Tech to implement a new enterprise student management system across 115 Defence Learning Centres. [ + ]
PM&C lists Digital Experts Advisory Committee
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has announced the composition of the expert advisory committee that will inform the Digital Technology Taskforce. [ + ]
NZ DIA's RealMe service to go up to the cloud
NZ's DIA has employed Unify Solutions to help manage RealMe Login and Assertion Services' transfer from a legacy platform to a cloud-based one. [ + ]
400 SA schools now connected to high-speed internet
Four hundred SA schools are now connected to high-speed, fibre-optic internet through the state government's $80 million 'SWiFT' project. [ + ]
ASD announces two new senior executives
Abigail Bradshaw and Linda Geddes have been respectively named ACSC Head and ASD Deputy Director-General Signals Intelligence and Network Operations. [ + ]
