digital economy Archives

The Productivity Commission’s take on AI regulation, data, privacy and how to help the digital economy – explained by one of its coauthors

Stephen King - August 6, 2025 3 MIN READ

Data and new digital technologies such as artificial intelligence present an opportunity to get Australia back on the path to productivity growth. But we can only seize this opportunity with the right policy framework. Australia can unlock billions in economic value through strategic reforms to data access, artificial intelligence regulation, and digital infrastructure. The Productivity… Read more »

Cryptocurrency

Blockchain Australia rebrands as Digital Economy Council of Australia amid refocus

Simon Thomsen - June 13, 2024 2 MIN READ

A decade and three bitcoin halvings later, industry association Blockchain Australia has rebranded to the Digital Economy Council of Australia (DECA). The change comes amid a restructure of DECA, with CEO Simon Callaghan departing and former chief operating officer Amy-Rose Goodey taking the lead as managing director. Speaking at the annual Blockchain Week gathering in… Read more »

Politics

Despite layoffs, Australia’s tech sector created 70,000 new jobs in the last 12 months

Simon Thomsen - May 30, 2023 2 MIN READ

Australia’s tech sector grew by 8% over the past year and despite a wave of high profile redundancies, added more than 10,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2023. The nation’s tech workforce increased by 70,000 jobs to 935,000 by February 2023, according to new research from the Tech Council of Australia (TCA). That growth… Read more »

Prof Andrew Parfitt, Victor Dominello, Prof Attila Brungs.

People

Former NSW minister Victor Dominello has a new university gig running tackling ethics and trust in digital life

Simon Thomsen - May 1, 2023 3 MIN READ

Former NSW digital government minister Victor Dominello has a new job after leaving politics at the March state election, signing on as the director of the university-based UNSW-UTS Trustworthy Digital Society Hub. The announcement comes on the same day Jihad Dib, the new Labor minister in charge of digital government marked Privacy Week, announcing the… Read more »

Politics

How NSW is building the nation’s digital spine

Victor Dominello - March 3, 2023 8 MIN READ

Australia needs to grow a backbone. In the information age, this spine must be digital. It must empower the individual with more control and protections over their privacy and security. This spine by nature must be customer centric. However because Australia is a federation – the spine doesn’t look like a single column. Its appearance… Read more »

Politics

The startup sector responds to the Australian government’s $1.2bn digital economy plan

Simon Thomsen - May 7, 2021 8 MIN READ

The federal government revealed some of its budget plans this week with prime minister Scott Morrison and treasurer Josh Frydenberg announcing a $1.2 billion Digital Economy Strategy. The headline figure is not as impressive as it initially sounds, with that figure spread out over six years rather than the usual budget stretch of four. And… Read more »

Politics

The budget will spend $800 million ramping up how business works digitally, especially when dealing with government

Simon Thomsen - September 29, 2020 3 MIN READ

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced an $800 million digital technology plan for business as part of the ongoing stimulus response to the Covid-19 pandemic The PM said next Tuesday’s Budget would support businesses to recover and create more jobs. The major areas of focus for the plan include digitisation of the government’s business register,… Read more »

Advice

The digital economy is worth $126 billion to Australia – but more needs to be done

Simon Thomsen - September 22, 2020 3 MIN READ

Australia’s economy grew by an additional $126 billion, or 6.5%, during 2019 in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) thanks to productivity gains provided by the digital technology, according to a new report by Deloitte Access Economics. The annual ACS Australia’s Digital Pulse report, prepared by Deloitte for IT professionals association ACS, found that growth… Read more »

Advice

Reimagining our educational systems to support the future workforce

Jack Hylands - February 6, 2019 3 MIN READ

To meet the skill demands of the Fourth Revolution we must look to the capabilities of our existing workforce, moving systematically to a lifelong learning model.

MYOB

The Rural Network is on a mission to connect and empower rural communities

Mat Beeche - April 9, 2017 2 MIN READ

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the future of work is going to be about individuals selling their unique set of skills – the more connected households become via technology, the less relevance things like offices and shopfronts will hold in society. We have seen many metro-centric platforms, such as Airtasker and Sidekicker appear in the last… Read more »

Topic

New Zealand Government puts forth plan to grow its digital economy

James Ward - April 5, 2017 3 MIN READ

The New Zealand Government has put forward a plan to progress the country’s digital industry through new initiatives and educational reforms.

Topic

Value of Australia’s sharing economy hits $15 billion, while concerns around future of work grow

Gina Baldassarre - February 13, 2017 3 MIN READ

A report has found 22 percent of Australians are earning $50 or more from the sharing economy each month, with 5.6 percent, or around 800,000, earning over $300 per month.