By the end of this month 400 buildings will be connected to an Adelaide fibre network offering symmetrical speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second. By the end of the year, that number is expected to reach 700.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will work with BankSA and Optus to launch a ‘Living Lab’ in Adelaide, with the South Australian capital set to join New York, Beijing and Istanbul in playing host to the data analytics initiative.
The South Australian government will invest in an “across government automated analytics and monitoring capability,” budget documents reveal.
The inaugural chief information officer at South Australia’s Department for Child Protection is preparing to leave his role. CIO Hamish Cameron will depart DCP in mid-June, a spokesperson for the department told Computerworld.
South Australia’s Department for Correctional Services (DCS) is partway through the rollout of a new locked-down, cloud-connected desktop environment intended to provide new technology training opportunities for prisoners, as well as support for numeracy and literacy education.