Category: Technology

We didn’t plan it this way. But every story in Government News this week has to do with government’s use of digital technology. It is a sure sign of the…

The new ANZ Local Government Digital Maturity Index (DMI) surveyed over 100 local government authorities in Australia and New Zealand about the extent to which they are digitising their internal…

Social media is now a major channel through which Australia’s government sector disseminates information. It is also increasingly important in other ways – as a way of measuring community reaction…

While digital automation has started to transform the public sector, there remains at least one place where human interaction is – and always will be – vital to the success…

Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has rebuilt its IT systems over the last three years, moving all its applications onto Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. CIO Dr Steve…

The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has set up an email hotline for technology providers who have difficulties dealing with the Federal Government. Speaking to industry at the National Press Club…

  Australia will be the first country in the world to use new GPS technology that will be almost a hundred times more accurate than the existing system. The new…

Australia government-owned research body, CSIRO, says Australia may get an entirely new industry as a result of Australian developed carbon fibre technology. It has announced “Australia’s first entirely home grown…

NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Andrew Constance, is a bit of a conference junky. His latest outing was at Salesforce.com’s annual ‘Dreamforce’ conference in San Francisco, where he had…

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected wearable monitor Fitbit for a use in large scale health study. The program, called All of Us, was established by the…