The first ICT conference focusing on management of major emergencies and disasters will be held in Bulgaria from 4–6 November. [ + ]

The Attorney-General's Department expects a system to allow law enforcement agencies to more easily match facial images using biometric data to be operational by mid-2016. [ + ]

Settling months of speculation, the federal government has announced that the CSIRO's Digital Productivity flagship and NICTA will merge, forming one of the largest digital innovation teams in the world. [ + ]

The federal government's Digital Transformation Office is launching a national recruitment campaign for talented people capable of accelerating the pace of digital transformation across the government. [ + ]

The government will implement all key recommendations of a review aimed at simplifying and standardising the approach to managing and allocating spectrum to telcos, broadcasters and others. [ + ]

The Digital Transformation Office is pushing application developers within government agencies to standardise and facilitate use of their applications by developing application programming interfaces to an evolving set of design standards. [ + ]

The ACT government's ICT equipment disposal broker Reuse-RecycleIT has saved all the territory's excess or superseded ICT equipment from the landfill since entering the arrangement in 2009. [ + ]

Scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Group have developed a device to verify the security of online content being delivered over untrusted computer machines or networks. [ + ]

The Sydney Opera House has selected an AECOM-led consortium for a project to develop a cloud-based 3D interface that bridges building information modelling and databases with control systems. [ + ]

NICTA has called for the use of 'smart ICT' in all upgrades and new proposals to help improve infrastructure that's struggling to cope with population growth. [ + ]

As recent US government experience shows, data breaches are inevitable. What's important is how quickly we react and the steps we take to minimise the damage, said FireEye's Phil Vasic. [ + ]

Citizens are just as concerned that governments use technology to help them prepare for severe weather events as they are on initiatives such as smart lighting, transport information and intelligent parking, a major new report shows. [ + ]

During a hearing on Friday, a House Standing Committee was given a number of recommendations for using smart ICT to transform the way Australia manages its public infrastructure. [ + ]

NEC Australia has won a four-year contract to assume responsibility for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) ICT Global Support Centres, which support 12,000 users at 160 sites across the world. [ + ]

The Attorney-General's Department well evaluate the costs and benefits of introducing fair use exemptions for copyright violation laws. [ + ]