November 2009 - Posts
Oliver Bell, Director, Standards Engagement Australia and New Zealand In April of 2009 Andrea Di Maio, an analyst with Gartner who has been looking at the role of technology in government and governance for some years now, published his thoughts on the
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Delegates to the 2009 Institute of Public Administration of Australia (IPAA) Annual Conference will today be addressed by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Over 500 public servants, academics and people interested in the public administration are gathered in
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Three Australian schools have been identified as being amongst the most advanced users of technology in the classroom in the world, Microsoft announced this week. The schools, which have been selected to participate in Microsoft’s Worldwide Innovative
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Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie last week addressed the APEC CEO Summit 2009 in Singapore, on the topic “What is the next big thing? The session focused on the newest sources of innovation worldwide in the next few years,
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apps4nsw is a public competition to foster and promote the development of innovative digital applications and web services using public sector data relating to New South Wales. Individuals and groups can compete for a share in the total prize pool of
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Yesterday Microsoft released a new position paper titled, Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era: A Microsoft Perspective . This new paper discusses how Microsoft is approaching privacy as it relates to cloud computing. Cloud-based
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NSW Minister for Commerce, Jodi McKay (far right) viewing Microsoft Surface Technology This week, Microsoft Australia welcomed the NSW Minister for Commerce and Tourism, Jodi McKay MP , and the Director General of the NSW Department of Services, Technology
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Microsoft and the Australian Government (Austrade) are joining forces to drive entrepreneurship within the Australian software community and support the development, commercialisation and internationalisation of innovative solutions to address global
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Australia’s environment ministers have agreed to a new national policy on waste and resource management. The historic agreement took place in Perth at the biannual meeting of the Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC). See the EPHC’s media
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