Opportunity to pause from digital devices to boost mental health. Australian telecommunications company Optus has taken action in supporting its employees’ wellbeing by encouraging employees to take a 90 minute “Pause” from all their devices during this Friday’s working hours as part of a broader initiative to encourage downtime while…
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Lifting community experience, primes for extra innovation. Manningham Council in Melbourne’s North East is where the city meets the country – it serves a diverse community of around 130,000 residents and ratepayers. As part of a cloud based digital modernisation program, the Council has deployed Dynamics 365 to serve both…
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David Koh chief executive at Cyber Security Agency Of Singapore gives a speech on the topic. COVID-19 which has affected us all significantly. However my proposition is that COVID-19 has not changed the fundamental challenges and dilemmas faced by the cyber community. It has not created a new situation. It…
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Average total cost of a data breach increased by nearly 10 per cent year over year. Data breaches now cost surveyed companies USUS$4.24 million per incident on average – the highest cost in the 17-year history of IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach Report. Based on in-depth analysis of real-world data…
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By Loo Siew Yee assistant MD (Policy, Payments & Financial Crime) at MAS. Technology can be a powerful enabler in the fight against money laundering. The right solutions support financial institutions, and I will refer to them as FIs, to more sharply and quickly detect higher risk customers and activities,…
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Huawei: Countries where 5G is developing faster also tend to have better digital infrastructure. Innovation in ICT is becoming a key driver of the global economy and its value is moving beyond the telecoms industry. Ongoing innovation in 5G, in particular, will bring more value to operators, the ICT industry,…
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Accelerate Government digitalisation. The Singapore Government will spend up to an estimated S$3.8 billion on info-communications technology (ICT) procurement this year, an almost 10 per cent increase from FY20’s procurement value of S$3.5 billion. This spending will go towards transforming government digital services used by both citizens and businesses, and…
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Global end-user spending on public cloud services expected to exceed US$480B Four new trends in cloud computing are continuing to expand the breadth of cloud offerings and capabilities, accelerating growth across all segments in the public cloud services market, according to Gartner. The four trends are: cloud ubiquity, regional cloud…
Read MoreGlobal research and education networks collaborate. Eleven global leading-edge research and education networks in North America, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania have announced a collaboration to improve high-speed network services in the Asia Pacific Oceania region. The Asia Pacific Oceania network (APOnet) collaboration will connect East Asia, Southeast Asia,…
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AWS to boost research capabilities. RMIT is set to become one of the first Australian university to implement a dedicated cloud supercomputing facility on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive digital innovation in research and education at scale. RMIT’s cloud supercomputing facility is designed to help more researchers and students…
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