CSIRO's Data61 celebrates first year of operations
Data61 – the government’s digital innovation network – has celebrated its first birthday, bringing to a close what its CEO has called a “transition year”.
Data61 – the government’s digital innovation network – has celebrated its first birthday, bringing to a close what its CEO has called a “transition year”.
As one Australian Securities and Investments Commission employee put it at a RegTech event in Sydney earlier this week: “If fintech start-ups are tech rich and the banks are data rich then I think it’s fair to say that ASIC is text rich. Our regulatory guidance is all text based.”
The NICTA-developed super-secure seL4 microkernel will head into space later this year as one of a number of experiments set to be carried out by Australian built ‘CubeSats’. The federal government today said it had officially authorised the launch of three miniature ‘CubeSats’ as part of the QB50 project.
Liberal Member for Lindsay, Fiona Scott gave a buzz-word laden speech to the Australian technology press on the importance of digital innovation but when it came to the actual detail, Scott refused to be drawn.
Adrian Turner is only six months into his tenure as Data61’s chief executive, and while he says he is still “drinking from a fire hose” it hasn’t stopped the Silicon Valley veteran laying out an ambitious program for the organisation.
The open source, Australian-developed secure microkernel seL4 has hit version 2.0.0, the project has announced.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using NICTA’s secure seL4 kernel have survived penetration testing.
CSIRO's Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA researchers will come together to form a new entity called Data61 in July 2016.
NICTA has unveiled a new transport and logistics living lab (TALLL) in Sydney which is designed to foster collaboration between IT providers, industry and government.
National ICT Australia (NICTA) CEO Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte has resigned because he and the NICTA board could not agree on strategies about the future of the organisation beyond June 2016 when federal government funding ends.
Employing digital service brokers to deliver online government services for citizens has been flagged as a way to repair the public sector’s bad reputation for service delivery.
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, stopped by the NICTA digital productivity lab in Sydney following the G20 Summit in Brisbane last weekend. Merkel saw a range of projects including a scientific tricorder, Internet-enabled mood light and hack-proof software.
National ICT Australia (NICTA) has hired Professor Jack Singh for the newly created role of Victoria director.
The seL4 microkernel, the “world’s most highly assured OS”, has just been released as open source, which will help it evolve beyond its military use, says NICTA.
NICTA has created a video that demonstrates how its seL4 microkernel, the “world’s most highly assured OS”, can be used to operate drones.