Will make it easier for state agencies to access Macquarie’s sovereign cyber expertise. Macquarie Government, part of Macquarie Telecom Group has signed a whole-of-government agreement with the New South Wales Government, joining its Cloud Purchasing Arrangement (“Panel”), becoming the first sovereign-at-scale and listed Australian company to do so. The Panel…
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Automated communications transcription and analysis to enhance situational awareness. The Australian Army and Microsoft are proud to announce they are collaborating on a program that explores how modern digital technologies could transform command and control in the future. The initial focus is on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transcribe and…
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Dr Tan See Leng, Minister for Manpower, at the Institute of Banking and Finance talks about the digitilisation wave. The financial services sector has remained resilient despite the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, the financial and insurance sector grew by 5.1% even as the overall economy contracted. In the first three…
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Investigating Samtrade FX, and its related entities in Singapore. The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) of the Singapore Police Force and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) launched a joint investigation into online trading platform, Samtrade FX run by Samtrade FX Limited, a company registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines…
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Need to focus on scaling digital initiatives through hyperautomation, decision intelligence, etc. By 2023, at least 85% of governments without a total experience (TX) strategy will fail to successfully transform government services, according to Gartner, Inc. Governments that continue to focus on citizen and employee experience initiatives separately will miss…
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Hyperscale data centre campus in Johor, Malaysia. Bridge Data Centres, one of the region’s key data centre service providers headquartered in Singapore has announced the construction of its fourth hyperscale data centre (MY06), the largest of its kind in Johor, Malaysia. This will involve an investment value of RM2.5 billion…
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USA, Australia, Japan, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Kiribati, and Republic of Nauru work together. Australia, Japan, and the United States are committed to working in partnership with the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, and Nauru to improve internet connectivity to these three Pacific nations by providing funding…
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Criminal cryptocurrency transactions will drop by 30 per cent by 2024. The Australian Government has unveiled most significant reforms to Australia’s payment systems in more than 25 years. The reforms will ensure that Australia can capitalise on the significant opportunities being created by new payment and crypto technologies. These reforms will build…
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Strengthens nation’s economy with new supercomputer. Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced that it is building a new supercomputer for Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) that is 30X faster than its existing system. The new supercomputer will be hosted in the NSTDA Supercomputer centre (ThaiSC), which is one…
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Ensure all government services to be available digitally by 2025 with a single entry point for users. The Australian Minister for Employment, Workforce, Skills, Small and Family Business, Stuart Robert stated in a speech that the Government trialing the use of Cyber Hubs. “The Cyber threat is so pervasive that…
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