Vic govt prepares for upgrade to emergency services comms
Motorola Solutions will upgrade Victoria’s Metropolitan Mobile Radio (MMR) network to support a range of new features including enhanced data services and GPS and location services.
Motorola Solutions will upgrade Victoria’s Metropolitan Mobile Radio (MMR) network to support a range of new features including enhanced data services and GPS and location services.
The Victorian government has indicated it is uneasy with the proposed governance arrangements for the national facial recognition service.
Close to a thousand members of the public and students have signed up to take a ride in La Trobe University’s new autonomous shuttle bus, with trials commencing next week.
Court Services Victoria (CSV) is preparing to replace a complex collection of aging case management systems employed by the Magistrates’ Court of Victoria and Children’s Court of Victoria, including a mainframe-based system that is almost 30 years’ old.
The Supreme Court of Australia is looking at the possibility of using “virtual courtrooms” for hearings — a move made possible by the court’s wholesale shift to the cloud.
The Victorian Government has launched an all-party parliamentary group to consider the policy challenges and opportunities presented by artificial intelligence.
The Victorian government says it has “abandoned” the federal mobile program, announcing this morning that it will establish its own program to fund mobile infrastructure in underserved areas.
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.
Some 60 iPad minis and iPhone have been distributed to Protective Services Officers (PSOs) and Transit Police Officers in the Melbourne suburb of Wyndham as part of a program that will see 10,000 mobile devices rolled out to Victoria Police personnel.
Optus and the Victorian government have announced a $16 million co-investment agreement.
Victoria’s Department of Justice and Regulation is looking for a new chief information officer after its current IT chief tendered his resignation.
The Victorian government has turned to the private sector to recruit its first whole-of-government chief information security officer. The government announced today that it had appointed ANZ’s former senior manager, information and technology risk, John O’Driscoll to the newly created position.
Victoria’s Western Health will trial 400 Cyber-Nexus ‘anti-hacking’ devices at its hospitals, as part of what the state government said will be a world-first pilot.
Sven Bluemmel will be Victoria’s first Information Commissioner, the state government announced today.
Victoria’s government today unveiled the state’s first cyber security strategy. At the heart of the strategy is a shift to a whole-of-government approach for information security.