Tech

GovHack 2018 winners announced

19 November, 2018 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

A 3D VR emergency management system and a visualisation of the budget based on tax flowing to the government are two of the many projects developed at GovHack 2018.


Operational excellence award goes to GOV.UK

15 November, 2018

The Civil Service Operational Excellence Award has been taken out by the GOV.UK team.


OSR rolls out Nuance virtual assistant: 'Sam'

14 November, 2018

A virtual assistant named Sam has been rolled out across the Queensland Office of State Revenue (OSR).


DTA making progress with ICT procurement reform

13 November, 2018 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

The Digital Transformation Agency aims to transform government ICT procurement into 'digital sourcing' under its procurement reform program.


DHS website achieves gold certification

13 November, 2018

The Department of Human Services website has received gold certification from the Australian Plain English Foundation.


DHS finally appoints new CIO

12 November, 2018 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

Former ANZ Bank CTO Michael McNamara will take the role of CIO of the Department of Human Services a year after the departure of its previous permanent CIO.


LGA SA selects Squiz to overhaul CMS

08 November, 2018 by Dylan Bushell-Embling

The Local Government Association of South Australia is negotiating to use the Australian-developed Squiz Matrix software as a new local government CMS.


Free Wi-Fi for Northern Geelong

02 November, 2018

Free Wi-Fi will be rolled out across Geelong's northern suburbs, following a $1.8 million grant from the Victorian Government.


Five ways to triage your legacy government IT systems

01 November, 2018 by Bob Nevins, Director, Health and Human Services Strategy and Business Development | Supplied by: Oracle Corporation Australia

With cloud environments replacing the sprawling on-premises data centres, it's rare that one can justify or afford the 'big bang' type of system replacement, so an IT triage plan is more important than ever before.


Privacy Commissioner elected to ICDPPC committee

31 October, 2018

The Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner has been elected to the Executive Committee of the ICDPPC.


City of Adelaide wins award for TPG partnership

26 October, 2018

The City of Adelaide has won the Economic Development Through Partnerships national award.


Lockheed Martin forms machine learning partnership

11 October, 2018 | Supplied by: Lockheed Martin Australia Pty Ltd

Lockheed Martin has joined forces with the University of Adelaide to deliver world-leading machine learning research.


AIIA Qld Council hosts eHealth luncheon

09 October, 2018

An eHealth luncheon will be hosted by AIIA Queensland Council this month on 19 October.


Register now for LGITSA conference

08 October, 2018

The program for the Local Government Information Technology SA (LGITSA) conference is now available.


Netflix boss headlines Asia Pacific Cities Summit

04 October, 2018

The co-founder of Netflix will be a key presenter at the Asia Pacific Cities Summit and Mayors' Forum next year.


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