With 800,000 members and $50 million in funds, Cbus Super gave head of IT and digital Rob Pickering a chance to build an entirely new system that brought administration and marketing tools in-house to provide a “sophisticated” experience to its members.
Tomas Varsavsky, chief engineer at REA Group, and his team have led the business into a single sign on evolution that saw its 7.8 million customers migrate to its own solution, Locke.
Sixty three per cent of Australian professionals believe their career progression has been limited - at one or more points - because of their sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, gender or a disability, according to a Hays report.
The number of women in the tech sector has jumped by eight per cent in the last year, according to a new report. In fact, women represent 39 per cent of the total tech sector, says recruiter Davidson Technology.
Former Telstra CEO David Thodey has shared the story of how he was publicly shamed in front of an arena crowd by world-renowned diversity trainer Jane Elliott in what he calls “one of the most significant moments of my career."
Women seeking leadership roles in the technology sector should not get special training or be taught how to be more assertive, says former Chief of Army David Morrison AO.
It’s becoming clear that 50:50 gender targets aren’t realistic as there are not enough women but there’s a silver lining in mid-tier organisations.
Advances in technology should be getting more women into the workforce, yet the opposite seems to be true in Australia and the ICT sector, said Professor Gillian Triggs.
Seventy Torres Strait Islander girls have coded a Raspberry Pi with an LED, GPS module and FM transmitter for emergency beacons to help their communities signal if brush fires become widespread, or alert people of poisonous snake and spider bites.
CIO Australia spoke with IT graduate Grace Sharma about the gender gap in the technology industry and what she thinks is stopping many young women from taking up a career in the field.
Kaylene O'Brien, deputy chair of networking forum Vic ICT for Women, is one of many Australian ICT workers who have experienced gender discrimination.
Facebook has added a second woman to its board of directors. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), has been elected to the board, the social networking giant announced.
The pay gap between women and men in ICT and the lack of senior female role models are the main reasons why young women are not taking up a career in ICT, according to Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA).