Trends in number of government data incidents reported. The Smart Nation and Digital Government Office (SNDGO) has published the second update on the Government’s personal data protection efforts. This annual update is a key recommendation made by the Public Sector Data Security Review Committee (PSDSRC) in November 2019, to enhance…
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Better business decisions happen when business, data and analytics, and other IT leaders work together. Data and analytics is a business function that fuels digital acceleration. However most organizations don’t have a systematic way to assess, optimize and articulate data and analytics value. Rita Sallam distinguished VP analyst at Gartner, believes…
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Commonwealth, state and territory governments sign an agreement to share data across jurisdictions. Two levels of Australia’s government have signed an agreement to share data across jurisdictions as a default position, where it can be done securely, safely, lawfully and ethically. Access to data is critical for policy, service delivery,…
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Ravi Menon managing director at the Monetary Authority of Singapore talks about data and climate change. The demand for trusted data will only grow as regulators strengthen reporting and disclosure requirements. Yet, the availability of good data remains a big challenge. The process of ESG data acquisition is manual, cumbersome…
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Today’s interconnected world makes global crises more likely. COVID-19 has highlighted a new kind of resiliency — digital resiliency, necessary for enterprises to survive and thrive during such crises. Digital resiliency is a company’s ability to rapidly adapt to disruptions by leveraging digital capabilities to restore business operations and capitalize on…
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Reimagining products and services and building digital banking experiences. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has launched a pilot under the new Consumer Data Right (CDR), becoming the first major Australian bank to allow customers to view account balances from other eligible financial institutions directly in the CommBank app. The…
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Intelligent data platform, Seven Central, drives real-time responsiveness and innovation. Vodafone and Google Cloud have announced a six-year strategic partnership to drive the use of reliable and secure data analytics, insights, and learnings to support the introduction of new digital products and services for Vodafone customers simultaneously worldwide. In a…
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Netwealth’s on premise infrastructure limited its ability to store and analyse more than five years of data. Netwealth has started undertaking a data and analytics modernisation, building a data lake using Microsoft Azure that will feature 20 years of historical data. It will also allow Netwealth personnel to access third…
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Software Spend Resilient to COVID-19. The software spending for Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) reached US$13 billion, up 7 per cent from 2019. In the second half of 2020, the A/NZ software market had a strong rebound, growing by 12 per cent YoY, compared to 3 per cent growth in…
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Importance of privacy in the sharing of health data for domestic or international travel. Governments around the world are implementing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 whilst also planning for a return to full economic and social activity across borders. For many domestic or international passengers, this has meant…
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