The Auditor-General has zeroed in on the performance of the Digital Transformation Agency and two other Commonwealth Departments in a report on the use of procurement panels and arrangements for expenditure on ICT related goods and services, which totalled over $A3.9 billion for the Australian government in the 2018-2019 financial year.
Cybersecurity is like a game of whack-a-mole. As soon as the good guys put a stop to one type of attack, another pops up. Usernames and passwords were once good enough to keep an account secure. But before long, cybercriminals figured out how to get around this.
The New South Wales Department of Customer Service (NSW DCS) has implemented an e-invoicing solution to automate the procure-to-pay process for more than 41,000 invoices processed annually by its shared services centre, although it will continue to allow suppliers to send paper/PDF invoices.
There you are again. Another day under those florescent lights in the basement room of some office building. The sound of the franking machine pushing letter after letter through. There are buckets of mail piled high against every wall.
Victorian legislation introduced to deal with the COVID 19 provided a challenge to Local Government Authorities in that state that still had many human touch points in their planning workflows.
With over 15,000 Californian residents employed by Australian companies that span more than 83 different industries, including wine production, manufacturing and investment, a new privacy law means Australian organisations must ensure more privacy regulations and compliance are adhered to off the back of GDPR.
Digital transformation, everyone talks about it, wants to sell it wants to do it, but what is it really. The term digital transformation has become a catch call, a term used to get budget, an easy handle to talk about the next iteration of what we have done before.
Robots have already made their way in the manufacturing industry, where they are programmed in a way that they know exactly what they have to do, while the human presence is only there to control and monitor the automated processes. In order for this to work smoothly, the processes and materials to be processed have to be of exactly the same kind. In other words, they must be standardized. Only then, the 'colleague' robot can build the same part in the same place on a production line for e.g. a vehicle.
A new format for compressing video, called Versatile Video Coding (H.266/VVC), at first glance might not seem to be the most exciting or profound change to influence humanity. But in a world where 4.57 billion people identify as active internet users, 3.5 billion regularly use a smartphone, 80% of global internet traffic is compressed video data and 500 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute, data is more than binary numbers. Data – and video specifically – is now part of humanity’s collective nervous system.
A Commonwealth Ombudsman's inquiry into Australia's National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), triggered by a surge in complaints over the time taken to process requests for assistive technology by the disabled, has zeroed in on records and email management practices as a source of delay.
