The Productivity Commission produced our final report on Availability and Use of Data in March last year. In the course of multiple inquiries by our organisation over the past decade, two things in the data world made it a clear priority for root and branch review.
A Senate Inquiry into “Digital Transformation” has issued a report that is highly critical of the Australian Commonwealth Government’s efforts to date, although the report’s conclusions are firmly split along party lines.
Australian law firm, Corrs Chambers Westgarth, has teamed up with ConsenSys start up, OpenLaw, to achieve a breakthrough that aims to unlock the potential of the Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts in the settlement of real estate and property transactions.
Industry analyst IDC has published its semi-annual estimate of spending on Digital Transformation for the Asia/Pacific region (excluding Japan) which it expects to reach over $US380 billion in 2018, recording a double digit increase of 15.3% against $US334.8 billion spent in 2017.
Data Scientists emerged about four years ago as THE must-have employee. Everyone in tech scrambled to brush off the old statistics books from courses they’d taken in college, spent some serious time relearning Python Pandas and R, learned the latest in Machine Learning theory, and bought new lab coats for good measure. I know I did.
As many organisations want to support mobile, team-oriented and nonroutine ways of work, an increasing number of them are looking for assistance in adopting digital workplace technology. A Gartner, Inc. survey* concluded that only 7 percent to 18 percent of organizations possess the digital dexterity to adopt new ways of work (NWOW) solutions, such as virtual collaboration and mobile work.
When any technology sector becomes ‘mature’ it gets into a rut. It’s as if there is a collective question of “Why change things, aren’t we are all doing just fine?”. Even so, over the past few years, things have begun to change, and the fundamentals of how an optimal ECM system might work in the future are being reimagined.
Even through all government agencies are well aware of their obligations to maintain records under the law, public sector organisations continue to struggle to comply with record-keeping requirements. A significant reason for this is that many people see record-keeping as adding work without adding value.
OneTrust, the developer of privacy management and marketing compliance software, has announced its data subject access rights (DSAR) tool has helped organisations handle more than 10,000 requests within two weeks of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) go-live date of 25 May.
Organisations tasked with ensuring their electronic content is accessible aren’t really interested in the technical details. They need straightforward solutions, usable workflows, reliable results and accountable systems.
