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Queensland uses AI to screen potential Olympians

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

The Queensland government has developed an AI-powered application on Azure to screen budding Olympic athletes using computer vision. Launched by the Queensland Academy of Sport, the custom-built YouFor2032 app features a series of virtual tests to assess prospective athletes' strength, speed, power, endurance, balance and flexibility. Tests are assessed using video-based markerless motion capture and pose estimation to generate key points from a user’s self-recordings of exercise tasks.
Licence NSW program in hot water amid cost blowouts and delivery delays

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

A multi-million-dollar program to modernise NSW’s licensing digital infrastructure is in turmoil amid significant delays and escalating costs. The Licence NSW program was created to migrate over 100 licensing services into an integrated whole-of-government system powered by Calytera’s Amanda solution by this year.
Queensland transitions to new digital identity system

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

Queensland has officially retired its legacy digital identity system, QGov, after completing the transition to a “modern digital architecture”. The Queensland Digital Identity (QDI) will now serve as the single access point for logging into the state government’s online services. Operated by the Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), QDI was initially developed “to support the launch” of the agency’s digital licence app in 2023, a TMR spokesperson told iTnews.
Sunshine Coast Council trains AI kiosk for in-person help

2 weeks ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

Sunshine Coast Council is tapping into an AI-enabled kiosk to handle in-person queries at its municipal centre via an Azure OpenAI service-powered avatar named ‘Laura’. The avatar was built by Queensland-based Soulbotix using computer-generated imagery and trained on effectively a self-hosted version of ChatGPT’s large language model. The council is now trialling the kiosk to answer resident questions at its centre in Maroochydore until May.
Transport for NSW is under new tech leadership

2 weeks ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

Transport for NSW has recruited former Network 10 CIO Jason Tuendemann to lead its technology delivery. Tuendemann steps into the position previously held by acting chief technology and innovation officer Kurt Brissett, who has left the agency after nine years. According to Transport for NSW, Tuendemann will now be responsible for “overseeing all technology infrastructure”, alongside strategy, integration, cyber and security, data management and operations.
Qld department elevates transformation lead to CIO

2 weeks ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

Queenland’s Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety has promoted its digital transformation director Erin Earle to lead overall technology delivery. Earle officially took over the CIO position on March 17, filling a role held by Arthur O’Brien for the past four years. She has worked across the various iterations of Queensland’s children’s services departments over the past 16 years.
Gov scopes architecture for public health surveillance platform

2 weeks ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

The federal government is developing a blueprint for a new data analytics platform to track and manage diseases across Australia. The Department of Health is currently putting together an architectural strategy and design for what's known as the National Public Health Surveillance System (NPHSS), with the aim of completing “a minimum viable product” by FY2028-29.
ASIC appoints new CISO after function review

3 weeks ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has appointed a new CISO after reclassifying the position following a review. The corporate regulator has hired former McGrathNicol partner Jamie Norton to take on the CISO role that had previously been held by Jez Clement since December 2021. The changeover comes just two months after ASIC also farewelled its chief data and analytics officer of almost five years Darshil Mehta, who went to join law firm King & Wood Mallesons (KWM).
Clean Energy Regulator puts APIs at centre of core tech rebuild

3 weeks ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

The Clean Energy Regulator (CER) is undertaking a multi-year transformation of its core technology and data repositories, following an API-first strategy to modernise its operations. The government regulator is progressively re-building all its core platforms and will deliver a new guarantee of origin scheme and an emissions and energy reporting system in the next stage of the program.
WA Communities plans child protection CRM overhaul

3 weeks ago | itnews.com.au | Eleanor Dickinson

The Western Australia Department of Communities is under pressure to improve its 15-year-old child protection case management platform amid concerns about weaknesses in data security, system reliability and access controls. While the department plans to replace its customer relationship management (CRM) application - called Assist - by 2028, it's been urged to upgrade its access permissions and disaster recovery plans by the end of the year.