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Woolworths extends agreement with Google Cloud

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

Woolworths Group has renewed an agreement with Google Cloud for a further five years. The retailer said that it would look “to further strengthen data, insights, and automation capabilities” implemented on Google Cloud through the fresh agreement.
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.
ANZ continues work on data "one-stop-shop" for its Risk function

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

ANZ Banking Group is continuing to build out a “one-stop-shop” to service the data needs of its risk function and about 2000 personnel. The data transformation program was first flagged at a Google Cloud Next conference in 2021. Additional details of the Google Cloud-based platform emerged in 2023, including that it would utilise BigQuery in its architecture, and that use cases for risk data included credit decisioning and risk comprehension.
NSW Police firewall admin confronted over WeChat

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

A NSW Police firewall security administrator of 17 years, who was let go for installing WeChat on a work computer and allegedly “being dishonest” when confronted, has unsuccessfully sought reinstatement. The administrator, who had privileged access as part of his role, said he used WeChat “for troubleshooting and verifying intermittent internet access issues” and “to keep contactable with my parents”, according to a judgment from the NSW Industrial Relations Commission.
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.
Aussie Broadband hunts AI dividends for staff

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

Aussie Broadband is investigating how AI and automation might assist staff with locating information and tapping internal knowledge sources, freeing up time to engage with customers. Chief people and reputation officer Jane Betts told an investor day briefing that people “tools, frameworks and systems” are set to play an important role in helping realise a new three-year business strategy called ‘Look-to-28’.
Newmont brings private 5G to its Cadia surface ops

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

Newmont has replaced wi-fi with private 5G to remotely control dozers working in the tailings area of its Cadia gold and copper mine in western NSW. The miner has deployed Ericsson private 5G for so-called “teleremote” operation of the dozer fleet, which operates on the surface. Tailings are the leftover material after gold and copper is extracted from ore brought to the surface.
Cessnock City Council creates CIO role

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Kate Weber

Cessnock City Council has created a chief information officer role to lead the council’s information technology strategy. In the job posting, the NSW Hunter Valley council said the CIO “will play a key role in driving innovation, optimising technology investments and ensuring operational excellence across the organisation.”It is a newly-created role and will report to Cessnock City Council general manager, Ken Liddell.
Prospa de-risks loan book by mapping borrower relationships

1 week ago | itnews.com.au | Ry Crozier

Prospa, an online lender for small business, has used hackathons and graph database technology to map out complex relationships between directors and entities applying for loans. The aim is to de-risk the loan book by having the necessary context at hand to assess loan applications quickly, manage exposure to entities or people, and predict potential loan distress.