Cyber information sharing: lessons for Australia
Sharing information on the cyber landscape is a necessary and efficient way to benefit from mutual exposure to cyber threats and boost collective defensive capacity. The US has been pursuing cyber...
View ArticleAustralian Twitter is more diverse than you think
What are the major drivers of Twitter take-up, in Australia and elsewhere? Do we connect around shared interests, shared location, or pre-existing offline relationships? And when, in the eleven-year...
View ArticleModern confidential: digital privacy today
The notion of personal privacy in a digital society may be out of date. While many of us say we still want it, we willingly share our data – and dislike paying to protect it. Governments and online...
View ArticleGene editing technologies on the cusp of revolutionising science
Gene editing technologies are fast becoming a reality, so much so that the Australian Academy of Science is calling for a national discussion around how to best manage it. Scientists are on the cusp of...
View ArticleNew Zealand’s Environmental Reporting Series: Our fresh water 2017
This report measures the quality of New Zealand's waterways; water quantity and flows; biodiversity in rivers and lakes; and the cultural health of fresh water. It is the first dedicated report on...
View ArticleMedici 2: a scalable content management system for cultural heritage datasets
Digitizing large collections of Cultural Heritage (CH) resources and providing tools for their management, analysis and visualization is critical to CH research. A key element in achieving the above...
View ArticleGrowth through innovation and collaboration: a review of the Cooperative...
Executive Summary: The Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Programme has been a feature of the Australian Government research and innovation agenda for 25 years. The programme has been subject to many...
View ArticleBetter energy, greater prosperity: achievable pathways to low-carbon energy...
This Energy Transitions Commission report, launched on 25 April 2017, sets out achievable pathways to limit global warming to well below 2˚C while stimulating economic development and social progress....
View ArticleUnderstanding North Korea’s missile tests
Since 2014, North Korea has dramatically altered its missile testing patterns, launching missiles much more frequently and from a variety of new locations. Recognizing the importance of understanding...
View ArticleAutomated facial recognition technology: recent developments and approaches...
Introduction There has been a rapid expansion in the type and volume of information collected for security purposes following the terrorist attacks on the United States of America (‘US’) on 11...
View ArticleBuilding a digital nation
Minister's foreword The Business Growth Agenda (BGA) sets out the Government’s work to build a productive and competitive economy, focusing on the six key inputs businesses need to succeed, grow, and...
View ArticleNew Zealand’s fresh waters: Values, state, trends and human impacts
The report is in two sections. The first is a summary report written from my Office with the assistance of the Departmental Science Advisors from the Department of Conservation and the Ministry for the...
View ArticleAustralian Cyber Security Centre 2016 cyber security survey
The Australian government has released this comprehensive cyber security survey, published by the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), of Australian government and major businesses of national...
View ArticleORCID annual report 2016
This is the 2016 annual report for ORCID, which includes information about membership, usage and adoption, engagement activities, integrations, technical updates, financials, and more.
View ArticleProductivity and the allocation of skills
We use linked employer-employee data from 2004–2012, combined with individual qualifications data from 1994–2012, to study how graduates with different skills fare in the labour market in the six years...
View ArticleEngaging the future of STEM
This research reports on key findings from an international investigation into what others are doing around the world in OECD countries to engage young people, particularly girls, in STEM. This...
View ArticleDigital Rights Watch: 2016 annual report
After one full year of operations, Digital Rights Watch has released its inaugural annual report.
View ArticleGetting wind and sun onto the grid: a manual for policy makers
Wind and solar PV have become among the cheapest options for meeting power demand in a growing number of countries globally. As these variable renewable energy (VRE) technologies differ from...
View ArticleA performance comparison of container-based technologies for the Cloud
Cloud computing allows to utilize servers in efficient and scalable ways through exploitation of virtualization technology. In the Infrastructure-as-a-Server (IaaS) Cloud model, many virtualized...
View ArticleThe importance of critical data analysis for the social sciences
Current social science research and writing faces a number of possibilities that seem to be constrained by three major challenges. The first is the limits of the imagination; the second is knowing what...
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