Industry News
IP Australia's 'Alex' tops digital awards
IP Australia's digital assistant 'Alex' was one of the winners in the National Archives of Australia's Digital Excellence Awards. [ + ]
ID Exchange and digi.me open innovation hub
The ID Exchange Innovation Campus is believed to be the first commercial regtech sandbox facility established in Australia. [ + ]
Software giants team for digital defence
Accenture and SAP are to develop a new digital solution to help defence and security agencies hasten their digital transformation efforts. [ + ]
Future cities lab launched at UNSW
The City Analytics Lab will improve collaboration among agencies responsible for planning and designing smarter, more livable future cities. [ + ]
Printer non-disclosure prompts HP customer refund
HP may compensate customers who unknowingly purchased certain models of its printers that do not work with non-HP ink cartridges. [ + ]
Greater transparency needed for data collection
Businesses around the world are being urged to commit to transparent data collection, to prevent everybody from 'drowning in data'. [ + ]
Ransomware attacks grew threefold in 2017
Cylance's latest Threat Report found that malware attacks increased 13.4% over 2016, with the healthcare sector remaining the most under fire. [ + ]
GDHP Summit attracts global digital health leaders
Participants at the event discussed approaches to global collaboration on the delivery of digital health services and associated policy priorities. [ + ]
UK launches major AI push
The UK Government has just published an artificial intelligence (AI) deal that could potentially add 10% to its GDP by 2030. [ + ]
French–Australian quantum computing alliance
Australia and France will be working together as part of a new quantum computing collaboration. [ + ]
WA supercomputers receive federal govt support
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre will receive $70 million in funding from the federal government. [ + ]
RegTech industry receives NSW Govt support
The NSW Government is throwing its support behind events designed to drive growth in the state's emerging regulatory technology (regtech) industry. [ + ]
UK's GDS opens G-Cloud 10 for applications
The UK's Government Digital Service has opened applications to the latest iteration of its G-Cloud cloud services procurement framework. [ + ]
Using data to improve Indigenous outcomes
The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is exploring ways to improve the collection and analysis of data to improve policy outcomes for Indigenous communities. [ + ]
nbn co teams up with unis on R&D
nbn co has formed collaborative partnerships with the University of Melbourne and University of Technology Sydney to focus on research and development. [ + ]
