Like other state agencies, the NSW Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards is migrating to the platform as a service (PaaS) environments within the state's redundant Tier III-certified GovDC data centres. [ + ]

Sharing data across departments will help governments boost efficiency while also improving public satisfaction and confidence. [ + ]

The healthcare sector experiences almost half of all reported major data breaches, and health records typically fetch around 10–20 times more than credit card information on the black market. [ + ]

The Victorian Government has awarded a $700 million contract extension for the myki smartcard ticketing system to NTT Data, with a new mechanism to prevent another cost blowout. [ + ]

A revaluation of social capital will be critical as governments leverage technology to redefine public good. [ + ]

With an electronic voting system, the outcome of the federal election would have been known within minutes of the polls closing, the AIIA has noted. [ + ]

The NSW Department of Family & Community Services has added Salesforce, Conga and CloudSense to the list of technology partners for its ChildStory IT infrastructure revamp project. [ + ]

The federal Department of Employment has channelled the fitness tracker industry to design an app that helps job seekers along in their employment journey. [ + ]

The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has acknowledged that last year's major data breach also compromised the personal details of close friends and family of the victims. [ + ]

The Police Federation of Australia is asking whichever party wins the upcoming election to consider building a National Criminal Intelligence System and allocating spectrum for a public safety mobile data network. [ + ]

The federal government's myGov faces a $50 million overhaul, while online licence renewal is the latest winner as Service NSW's centralisation pays off. [ + ]

NSW Public Works will work with emergency management consultancy Tigertail Australia to explore procedures to respond to major emergencies that require assistance from the private sector. [ + ]

NSW Department of Family & Community Services will adopt MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform to underpin its ChildStory child protection IT infrastructure replacement project. [ + ]

Labor has pledged to revamp the NBN project to connect up to 2m more homes with FTTP compared to the Coalition's multitechnology model, if it wins the upcoming election. [ + ]

A merger transition tool developed by business intelligence company CAMMS and Local Government Professionals Australia will help NSW local councils navigate the merger process. [ + ]