Malicious email mitigation strategies
Introduction Socially-engineered emails containing malicious attachments and embedded links have been observed by the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) being used in targeted cyber intrusions...
View ArticleHack the state, Mike Bracken tells public servants
Former head of the United Kingdom's Government Digital Service, Mike Bracken, argues that the third wave of digital transformation will force old fashioned structures and systems of government to give...
View ArticleGame coding workshops in New Zealand public libraries: evaluation of a pilot...
Participants were taken step by step through the process of creating their own simple 2D videogame, learning the basics of coding, computational thinking, and digital game design. The workshops were...
View ArticleCSIRO ordered to re-instate climate change research as core priority: Greg Hunt
Just months after chief executive, Larry Marshall, shocked the global scientific community by changing the CSIRO's focus from climate change research to climate change mitigation, Federal Science...
View ArticleNZGOAL Software Extension
These are the official New Zealand Government guidelines to provide clarity on how government agencies can make their software open source. Government agencies invest significantly in software...
View ArticleThe economics of privacy
This article asks what the economic argument is for and against privacy, or managing data flows. It argues that privacy has a role to play in whether data will be used in a way which changes the...
View ArticleThe communications market 2016
The United Kingdom's communications regulator, Ofcom's thirteenth annual Communications Market report explores the impact that the internet and other forms of communication have on people’s day-to-day...
View ArticleQuality of census data will be 'compromised' says Andrew Leigh
Last night, the national census ended in disaster, after the Australian Bureau of Statistics website crashed, leaving millions of frustrated people unable to lodge their census forms. The bureau's...
View ArticleCensus website cracks after ‘malicious’ attack by hackers
Many Australians were unable to complete the Census on August 9 due to the Census website failing. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) chief statistician has blamed a deliberate ‘denial of...
View ArticleABS looking to 'rebuild the trust' as census website goes back online
Over 400,000 households have completed the online Census since the website was restored yesterday afternoon. The chief statistician of the Australian Bureau of Statistics, David Kalisch, says new...
View ArticleThe reporting experiences and support needs of victims of online fraud
Although fraud has been practiced throughout history, the advent of the internet has created new and effective avenues for targeting potential victims. Victims of online fraud experience substantial...
View ArticleDigital lives of older Australians
This research snapshot aims to explore the levels of online engagement of older Australians (those aged 65 and over). It examines various measures of digital engagement, including internet access,...
View ArticleFar reaching consequences of ABS/IBM census debacle: analysts
Investigations are continuing into what went wrong at the Australian Bureau of Statistics over the botched online census. But there's fresh scrutiny of the computer giant IBM, which has been blamed for...
View ArticleScrolling for story: how millennials interact with long-form journalism on...
Three RJI Research Scholars spent the past year studying the effectiveness and sustainability of long-form digital journalism. This is the first in a five-part series based on fifty-three interviews...
View ArticleAccess and use: improving digital multimedia content for consumer health...
This project enabled novel organisational insight into the comparative utility of a portfolio of consumer health information content, by measuring patterns of attrition (abandonment) in content use....
View ArticleWhat construction jobs will look like when robots can build things
By 2034/35, almost 20% of Australians (6.2 million) are projected to be aged 65 or over. One sector already feeling the impact of the ageing population is construction. In Queensland, the number of...
View ArticleTelstra Tech Savvy Seniors
Tech Savvy Seniors gives older people, particularly those in regional and remote areas of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, the opportunity to develop the skills and confidence to use...
View ArticleThe digital inclusion outcomes framework
The Digital Inclusion Outcomes Framework is a single, flexible template for benchmarking and tracking digital inclusion in the UK, and evaluating digital inclusion activities locally. It aims to...
View ArticleMobile vs. computer: implications for news audiences and outlets
In this paper Johanna Dunaway, Joan Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard's Shorenstain Centre on Media, Politics and Public Policy, explains mobile’s limitations as a means of news consumption and its...
View ArticleSiri, why am I so busy?
Technologies are not neutral tools that emerge independently of society. According to Judy Wajcman, their design and use reflect as much as they shape the societies which invent them. Professor Wajcman...
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