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Greens accuse Conroy of fudging facts over content filter trials
Federal Communications minister Senator Stephen Conroy has dodged a question by the Greens, who claimed he said in an October Senate estimates hearing that countries such as Sweden and Canada had mandatory Internet filtering systems similar to those now being trialled in Australia, when in fact they dont.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
Google-enabled government starts with Obama's CTO
President-elect Barack Obama's plan to build a Google-enabled government began modestly this week with its new Change.gov Web site, which includes the means to apply for a job in the new administration.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
FAQ: Why Obama may back an H-1B increase even in a recession
If the US president-elect moves quickly to boost basic research funding, the visa issue will be part of the debate.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
Are design issues to blame for e-vote 'flipping'?
Are some touch-screen voting machines really "flipping" votes from one candidate to another, or are the voters who claim their votes are being changed just wrong?
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
Can the Web predict the next president?
IT professionals have historically monitored network traffic patterns to better understand network usage, to expose security events, and to generally promote overall network health. Traffic analysis can likewise be applied to the Web to understand a wide range of behavior patterns ranging from social media networks to suggestion systems in e-commerce to even the current hot topic: the presidential race.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
Open source: How e-voting should be done
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
In Conroys muddy waters you'll never know whats being filtered
An Australian law expert has warned that under the governments proposed mandatory Internet content filtering scheme Australians will have no way of finding out what illegal content has been censored and blocked online, while Greens Senator Scott Ludlam voiced his concern over Senator Conroys ambiguity regarding exactly what content will or wont be blocked, and who will be able to opt-out of the filtering.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
US border patrol screening to require air travelers to fork out more info
Starting early next year, air travelers will have to provide their birth date and gender, as well as their full names to the airline when making flight reservations.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
UK government blows money on cancelled IT projects
The U.K. government has shelved IT projects worth at least £273 million (AUD$664 million) during the last five years, MPs have revealed.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
US gov't increasing efforts to fight ID theft, report says
The U.S. government has taken several steps to combat identity theft during the past two years, including increased prosecutions of criminals and decreased use of Social Security numbers to identify constituents, according to a report released Tuesday.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
People First goes from planning to action
Almost a year has passed since a change of guard placed NSW CIO Emmanuel Rodriguez in charge of driving the state government's most ambitious ICT procurement, planning and expenditure program, which aims to slash IT spend by $565 million in the four years to July 2010.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
Where the US presidential candidates stand on tech issues
The 2008 presidential election gives CIOs and other IT executives a choice of two major-party candidates who are interested in technology-related issues. While the US economy and the war in Iraq have dominated the debate between Republican nominee Senator John McCain and Democratic nominee Senator Barack Obama, they have also hit on such IT hot buttons as telecommunications and tech jobs.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
Aussie CIOs, businesses don't understand Garnaut Review implications
Most IT managers and organisations in Australia are yet to wake up to the corporate requirements for reporting and improving greenhouse gas abatement, according to a Gartner analyst who labeled the Garnaut Climate Change Review a call to action for the nations IT industry.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
FBI: Several nations eyeing US cyber targets
About two dozen nations have developed cyber-attack capabilities and have their eyes on targets inside the US government or businesses, the top cybercrime law enforcement official in the US said.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
Eight ways technology has shaped the US elections
Technology has played a particularly prominent role in the 2008 US elections -- and it isn't just the typical silliness over whether a candidate really claimed to have invented a key piece of technology. Throughout the year we've seen technological advances used both for good, such as using Short Message Service to announce a vice presidential pick, and for bad, such as hacking into another vice presidential pick's private e-mail account. In this story, we'll take a look at the eight techiest moments of the 2008 presidential race, including YouTube debates, viral videos and e-voting controversies.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
Washington uses Google Apps to power new intranet
When it came time for Washington, D.C., to create a new intranet for city employees, spending US$4 million on a site based on proprietary portal software just didn't seem like a good idea to CTO Vivek Kundra. But using Google Apps did, he said in an interview Tuesday.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
NSW Govt advised to give students Linux laptops
NSW school students could be supplied with Linux-based laptops as part of the state's efforts for the Digital Education Revolution [DER].
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
No opt-out of filtered Internet
Australians will be unable to opt-out of the government's pending Internet content filtering scheme, and will instead be placed on a watered-down blacklist, experts say.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
It's the Humans, Stupid!
Technology doesnt just develop itself, and talent management skills are vital when it comes to innovative projects.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
UK Ministry of Defence in new data loss scandal
The Ministry of Defence and EDS are investigating the loss of a portable hard drive containing personal details of 100,000 military personnel and up to 600,000 potential recruits.
Categories: Australian IT Sites, Australian Policy
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