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Flood water transforms everything in its path into the same muddy brown, making it difficult for emergency services to grasp the extent of the damage without the help of aerial infrared imagery.
Service provider Dial Before You Dig launches its DBYD NextGen referral service platform. In partnership with Esri Australia and Deloitte Consulting,...
By Staff Writer on Jan 29, 2021 12:38PM Insiders speak about check-in apps and a large-scale digital twin. The state government category of the 2021 iTnews Benchmark Awards was among those that attracted the most competition. Now you can watch short videos about the finalist projects. The three videos feature ACT Health, the NSW Department of Customer Service's (DCS) Spatial Services arm and Service NSW. Watch them to see ACT Health CIO explain the thinking behind the state’s COVID check-in app, Check In CBR. He discusses the data use challenges thi...
By Staff Writer on Dec 18, 2020 12:55PM Standout government, health and finance IT projects revealed. We are excited to announce the 2021 iTnews Benchmark Awards finalists. iTnews received more than 90 nominations for IT projects that took place in a year like no other. They include federal and state government projects enabling critical Covid-19 response activities, challenging IT risk and consumer data projects by banks, a local government effort to democratise the use of data, and a web application that has saved Australian families millions of do...
In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John McGarvie. I was stunned. I stared at the screen, hardly believing my eyes. After years of research, my own and others, I thought most of the Aboriginal names for the river were lost forever, destroyed in the aftermath of invasion and dispossession. Yet, suddenly, this cache of riches. A page from Rev McGarvie’s 1829 list of Aboriginal names for places...