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Slideshows about government

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  IN PICTURES: CeBIT 2015, Sydney, Trade Show

  CeBIT 2015 kicked off at Sydney Olympic Park with the usual day one mix of keynotes and the trade show. The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, delivered a keynote address - via video link. The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, and MSW Minister for Finance, Services and Property, Dominic Perrottet, also spoke. This slideshow looks at the ever popular trade show. Photographer IAN SHARP was there to catch the action.

  IN PICTURES: CeBIT 2015, Sydney, Trade Show
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  IN PICTURES: CeBIT 2015, Sydney, Day One Keynote addresses

  CeBIT 2015 kicked off at Sydney Olympic Park with the usual day one mix of keynotes and the trade show. The Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, delivered a keynote address - via video link. The Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore, and MSW Minister for Finance, Services and Property, Dominic Perrottet, also spoke. Photographer IAN SHARP was there to catch the action.

  IN PICTURES: CeBIT 2015, Sydney, Day One Keynote addresses
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  IN PICTURES: Kickstart-ing 2013 with a boogie

  MediaConnect is hosting its Kickstart 2013 event at the Sunshine Coast from February 17 to 19. The three-day conference kicked off with an 80s-themed dinner.

  IN PICTURES: Kickstart-ing 2013 with a boogie
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  The recent history of governments vs. the Internet

  "Information wants to be free," the saying goes. But what if the information in question consists of state secrets, copyrighted material or is simply something a government doesn't want its citizens to see?

  The recent history of governments vs. the Internet

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News about government

• Home Affairs rejects calls for additional safeguards in ‘spyware’ law

  Department pushes back against calls for judicial oversight

• Tech giants allied against proposed Australia law seeking encrypted data

  New Zealand latest to tighten oversight over access to online communication

• Gender pay gap transparency: How would Australia's tech titans fare?

  Labor calling for all large companies to publicly release gender pay gap data

• The cultural change at IP Australia making data an asset

  "If data is an asset it takes cultural change to see it as an asset," says agency's chief data officer Kevin Jeffery

• Objective migrates over 100 customers to Microsoft Azure AU Central

  Migration centres around content collaboration platform built for government

• Government gives digital business green light, but progress lags

  Ecosystems key to helping government organisations scale digital business operations

Interviews about government

• The big ticket tech projects in the latest NSW Budget

  Includes an $880 million digital overhaul of NSW’s legacy rail signalling and train control operations

• Why did AC3 buy Bulletproof?

  Sydney-based technology provider sheds light on an acquisition finalised following a six-month bidding war

• ​Deloitte - Probing the Public Sector in Australia

  How technology deployments in government differ from traditional private sector practices.

• Profile: Karl Redenbach, CEO, LiveTiles

  CEO and co-founder discusses homegrown global success, the oz IT skills shortage, and why it moved to New York

• ​INSIGHT: BlackBerry says: “I’m Not Dead YET!”

  This transaction has been a buzz worthy topic in the mobile security arena.

• Best in class

  After more than two decades with multinational healthcare company, Johnson & Johnson, Stephen Wilson moved into education three years ago as the CIO of NSW ...

Features about government

• ​Ideas Boom or Bust: Where the National Innovation and Science Agenda went wrong

  Unfairly benefits investors over the start-ups doing the heavy lifting

• ​Large cracks appear in nbn business case

  and competition along with innovation will vanish down them

• FCC girds for legal attacks on net neutrality order

  The FCC's 400-page official order on net neutrality, released on Thursday, is about to be the center of a long and contracted legal battle.

• Who wins the net neutrality debate? Google, of course

  ISPs and carriers don't want to be regulated. Content providers don't want to be throttled. Welcome to the net neutrality debate

• 3D printing makes its move into production

  IT needs to get ready

• Wearables: Are we handing more tools to Big Brother?

  Fitness trackers and other wearables are all the rage, but privacy advocates warn that they come with the risk of a "privacy nightmare"