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• Cenitex paid price for years of uncertainty

  A three-year period of uncertainty for Victorian shared ICT agency Cenitex between 2011 and 2014 prevented it to make future plans, resulting in no investment in technology during the period.

• Public Transport Victoria breached privacy rules with Myki data release

  Public Transport Victoria (PTV), now part of the state’s Department of Transport, breached the law when it released supposedly de-identified data relating to the use of Melbourne’s Myki card.

• Lexus and Telstra trial connected vehicle tech on Victorian roads

  Lexus is trialling a range of connected-vehicle technologies on public roads in Victoria, the car manufacturer announced today.

• Victoria’s ‘big build’ agency creates CIO position

  Victoria’s Major Transport Infrastructure Authority is recruiting its inaugural chief information officer.

• Fines Victoria IT woes tax Ombudsman’s patience

  The Victorian Ombudsman says her office has been flooded with complaints about Fines Victoria, after the agency launched on 31 December 2017 with only partial IT functionality.

• Chief executive of Victoria’s Cenitex to depart

  After more than seven years in the role, Cenitex chief executive Michael Vanderheide has decided to leave the Victorian government IT shared services agency.

• New CIO at Victoria’s Triple Zero service

  Graeme Dunn will lead the IT function at Victoria’s Triple Zero authority.

• Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority in IoT push

  Victoria’s Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has an IT overhaul underway that is seeing the department create a new data exchange to analyse information from potentially thousands of IoT devices in the field.

• Stone & Chalk launches ‘mega-hub’ to rev up fintech in Australia

  Business incubator, Stone & Chalk, has unveiled a ‘mega-hub’ that aims to unite fintech across Sydney and Melbourne, further cementing Australia as a natural “centre of gravity” for fintech.

• VIC govt project processes ‘not accurate’: audit

  Victorian government agencies have limited oversight and assurance of the completeness of their reported technology projects and data, according to a new report by the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office.

• Jack Dorsey’s Square opens engineering hub in Melbourne

  ​Merchant services, point-of-sale and mobile payments firm Square is expanding its Australian operation, by launching the company’s first engineering hub outside of North America in Melbourne.

• Victoria pulls out of government mobile black spot program

  ​The Victorian government has decided to abandon the Commonwealth Mobile Black Spot program and choose its tower locations.

• Victoria Police relying on obsolete tech

  Seventy-nine per cent of the IT systems relied on by Victoria Police to support critical business functions are “obsolete,” an investigation by the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office has concluded.

• Vic justice department CIO resigns

  Victoria’s Department of Justice and Regulation is looking for a new chief information officer after its current IT chief tendered his resignation.

• Victoria appoints first CISO

  ​The Victorian Government has appointed its first whole-of-government chief information security officer.