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Co-design at the heart of new ATO system
A major change to tax and super reporting required close work between the Australian Tax Office and service providers. [ + ]
Making good intelligence even better
Law enforcement and security agencies are coming to grips with a deluge of data and the urgent need for intelligent analysis. [ + ]
Get to grips with the future at IoT Impact 2018
A two-day campus for business executives, IoT Impact will help Australian industry and government understand and plan for the impact of the IoT in Australia. [ + ]
Becoming a leading digital nation
Only 7% of Australian and New Zealand public sector organisations report feeling they're ahead of global peers on the digital transformation journey. [ + ]
Lake Macquarie Council inks $1.2m deal with Civica
Lake Macquarie City Council has awarded Civica a $1.2m contract to implement a Land Information System in the council's enterprise management solution. [ + ]
Interview: Shae Howard, Director, GovDC
Having consolidated 130 data centres down to just two, the GovDC project is saving the NSW Government millions of dollars per year. [ + ]
DTA to sponsor GovHack 2018
Registrations for September's GovHack 2018, the national open data hackathon, will open on Thursday this week. [ + ]
The case for gender equality in IT is clear
Australian and international perspectives on furthering equality in government were shared at the recent 'Women in Leadership' symposium. [ + ]
Smart City Tour (Part Two): Let your trashcan do the talking
Last month, I took you on a brief tour of some of the most innovative cities in the world, places using the power of connected devices — millions of sensors attached to all sorts of physical devices — to gather petabytes of digital information that are deposited into a data lake. [ + ]
Data, collaboration key to national and border security
Home Affairs Secretary Michael Pezzullo has urged global governments to embrace collaboration and analytics to tackle domestic and border security threats. [ + ]
Boring or not, data is the key to AI success
Like a journey to the South Pole, the artificial intelligence (AI) hype has been going on for so long that it feels like we're trudging across the top of a very flat topped mountain. [ + ]
Queensland appoints defence expert to boost cybersecurity
Major General Stephen Day (Retired), former senior executive of the National Cyber Centre, will advise the Queensland Government on cybersecurity matters. [ + ]
Big data's biggest obstacles
Local governments are beginning to grasp the potential of data analytics, but it is still early days. [ + ]
UK govt urged to adopt smart city strategy
A new report from a UK Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities provides recommendations that Australia may want to implement into its own smart city blueprint. [ + ]
Scale is everything in digital government
Governments must reimagine their approach to service development and delivery as the effects of digital become clear, writes Gartner's Dean Lacheca. [ + ]