Policy
The long slow road to automating Australia’s medical system just get a little shorter, as the ACCC smooths the path to interoperability of electronic prescriptions.
We can’t trust our politicians to behave at the best of times. At the Senate Estimates hearing into the National Broadband Network they acted like ten – no eight – year olds.
Vic Government’s new ICT strategy recognises ‘past mistakes’
By Peter DinhamThe release of the Victorian Government’s ICT Strategy outlining the future direction for the design and use of information and technology to deliver Government services has been welcomed by the ICT industry’s peak body, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), along with a comment about past mistakes by the government in developing ICT policy.
Victorian Government reveals revamped ICT strategy
By Stephen Withers
During the last two decades or so, successive Victorian Governments have been keen on ICT industry strategy, but the Baillieu Government has now revealed how it plans to improve its own use of technology.
The government’s inquiry into IT pricing in Australia is getting serious, with major vendors being called before a parliamentary committee.
An Internet activist has launched a petition to prevent large companies control over Chinese, Japanese, English and many other new top Internet address.
ACMA and recently established telecommunications compliance body CommCom have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation to enforce the new Telecommunications Consumer Protections Code.
The ACCC has directed Telstra to improve four processes that will support the migration of customers onto the National Broadband Network.
The High Court has upheld Google’s appeal from a judgment which had found it had engaged in ‘misleading or deceptive conduct’.
The Victorian Government has opened round two of its Digital Futures Fund, with $11 million on offer to small and medium enterprises that use ICT to address key business challenges.
