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.
Parliament House in Canberra was buzzing this week as National ICT Australia (NICTA) exhibited the latest broadband, digital economy and technology innnovations. NICTA partnerships with Sydney Water and Infosys were launched on the day.
NICTA, Pindan and Cerebal Palsy staff celebrate with Dell Kace executives after seventh annual conference.
The development of IT which will aid the Australian transport and logistics sector has received a boost with National ICT Australia’s (NICTA) latest venture, the Living Lab. Pictures courtsey of NICTA and Jeffrey Lee.
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.