NSW scraps ‘technical standards’ criteria in procurement shake-up
The NSW Government is to abolish its technical standards procurement categories as part of an effort to “simplify” the supply process.
The NSW Government is to abolish its technical standards procurement categories as part of an effort to “simplify” the supply process.
The integrity of future NSW elections could be under threat after the state’s Electoral Commission lost a number of “very specialised skills” amid a spending axe.
Depth cameras and computer vision have this week been rolled out at Wynyard Station in Sydney, in an effort to reduce platform crowding and cut the time it takes for trains to load and unload passengers.
The NSW Government has officially launched its ‘cyber security innovation node’ in partnership with AustCyber.
Australia’s state and territory education ministers have agreed to delay the national online rollout of NAPLAN until 2021 after thousands of public school students were left unable to access or complete online tests earlier this year due to the connectivity problems.
Just because organisations have sought the legally required consent to use data doesn’t make them immune to a backlash from customers.
Staff at the New South Wales Government’s Data Analytics Centre (DAC) are receiving ethics training to ensure they “take the responsibilities of citizen data seriously”, it has been revealed.
The mobile data terminals (MDTs) that have been rolled out across New South Wales are proving so popular that Fire and Rescue officials are considering temporarily shutting them off to test firefighters’ ability to cope without them.
The New South Wales government has signed a five year memorandum of understanding with Microsoft, to collaborate on cyber security, artificial intelligence ethics, training and data-based decision making.
The NSW Government is offering grants of up to $400,000 for companies developing ways to reduce gambling harm with technology.
Dr Maria Milosavljevic, the NSW Government’s inaugural chief information security officer, is leaving the role to become the federal Department of Human Services' chief data officer.
The former CEO of Facebook Australian and New Zealand has been appointed chairman of technology fair CEBIT Australia.
Sydney commuters from today are able to tap their credit or debit card, or smart wallet device instead of their Opal card to travel on metro trains.
New South Wales Land Registry Services (NSW LRS) is working on a blockchain-based proof of concept for electronic property conveyancing, ahead of its commitment to fully digitise property transactions in the state by July next year.
Secure Logic, makers of the blockchain platform underpinning the NSW Government’s digital driver’s licence pilot, has revealed its ambitions for the technology across a bevy of state government services.