Australia’s first independent body committed to gender equality is set to partner with councils to help get more women into elected and executive roles. The Australian Gender Equality Council is Australia’s first independent national body supporting the achievement of gender equality through national campaigns based on research.
Read MoreStrathbogie Shire, a picturesque rural municipality two hours from Melbourne, has shown that a community of just 10,000 can come together to tackle rising energy costs and climate change impacts.
Read MoreAbout 2800 NZ ratepayers have had their personal information compromised after using online forms created by Typeform to share comments with Hamilton City Council, Waikato District Council, or Waipā District Council.
Read MoreThe City of Melbourne is planning to spin out a subsidiary to help it sell its digital services offerings to other local councils. The company, dubbed Melbourne Digital Enterprise, is being proposed by the council to “create ventures with a range of commercial and public sector partners”.
Read MoreThe cities of Prospect, Burnside, Port Adelaide Enfield, Playford and Campbelltown in Adelaide’s north have teamed up in a bid to embrace digital innovation and achieve economies of scale with the deployment of internet of things devices.
Read MoreThe NSW Government is tapping into Microsoft’s Azure cognitive capabilities to build a machine learning neural network to categorise how its $30 billion annual procurement budget is allocated each year.
Read MoreFujitsu Australia, in collaboration with construction group Downer and Melbourne based electronics engineering and software development company EYEfi, has successfully trialled a ‘smart drains’ system that has the potential to significantly reduce the risk of flooding from overflowing stormwater drains.
Read MoreThe federal government has adopted an industry-wide framework for digital invoicing, paving the way for rapid takeup of electronic invoicing in government and the creation of a de facto national electronic payment system.
Deloitte Access Economics estimates e-invoicing could result in economy-wide benefits of up to $28 billion over ten years.
Read MoreA new scam email which tries to trick people into paying a fake parking ticket is the latest to hit Orange residents. Orange City Council’s customer service team took five calls from local residents on Wednesday who received the scam messages in their email inbox.
Read MoreNSW Finance Minister Victor Dominello has put the state's 128 local councils on notice that they will in future be required to provide real time updates about property developments in their areas.
Surging use of public-cloud services for storing sensitive data reaffirms the importance of data audit and triage as the clock ticks towards GDPR’s May 25 implementation deadline.
Read MoreMicrosoft has announced the Availability of Azure Australia Central – two new Azure cloud regions located within the highly secure, resilient, Australian-owned facilities of Canberra Data Centres to support mission-critical demands of Government and National Critical Infrastructure.