How good are our governments at keeping citizens' data safe and secure? We polled seven industry experts to find out. [ + ]

The US White House has open sourced its custom Facebook messenger bot as part of efforts to encourage more governments to enable interactions with politicians over the social media platform. [ + ]

Seeking to cement South Australia's status as a self-driving vehicle leader, the state government has announced a $10m grant fund for innovative autonomous and connected vehicle testing and R&D projects. [ + ]

Emergency technology goes beyond the communications gap as social media, the Internet of Things and big data gain traction within citizen-minded emergency services agencies. [ + ]

Mobility devices, the IoT and app development are helping providers improve healthcare outcomes while also boosting their own balance sheets. [ + ]

One of the key architects of the Obama Administration's digital government transformation efforts, Hillary Hartley, will visit the GovInnovate summit in Canberra in November to share her expertise. [ + ]

NSW has become the first state to arrange to procure ICT services using the federal government's Digital Marketplace platform. [ + ]

Marketing and strategy agency Frost*Collective has built an interactive masterplan detailing the planned improvements for Sydney's Moore Park area. [ + ]

SMS Management & Technology has won a six-year, $8.7 million contract to provide an integrated school administration system for the ACT Education Directorate. [ + ]

Australia's Assistant Minister for Cities and Digital Transformation, Angus Taylor, believes that collaboration with the private sector and smart technologies will be vital to ensuring Australian cities' prosperity. [ + ]

The House of Representatives has completed work on an electronic petitioning system to allow citizens to potentially take their grievances directly to the House. [ + ]

Atos, Datacom and NEC have reportedly been selected as the preferred providers for a $3bn WA government project to shift from owning ICT infrastructure to an ICT service sourcing model. [ + ]

The Productivity Commission has recommended that the government consider investing in data analytics capabilities such as machine learning to help improve migrant selection and policy-setting. [ + ]

Stunted by outsourcing, the UK's Revenue and Customs service used cultural transformation to reinvent its application infrastructure. [ + ]

Around three-quarters of the $500m budget for the government's new Electronic Warfare Operations Support for Maritime and Land Forces project will be spent locally. [ + ]