CUREator’s new health security stream will award $1 million over three years to projects in fields such as emerging infectious diseases and pandemics research, and therapies targeting chemical, biological and radiological threats.
The Digital Identity program will allow customers to prove who they are online. This means greater access to government services for customers with a disability, time poor customers or customers who live in rural or remote areas and would otherwise struggle to get to a Service NSW centre.
The project is expected to commence by the last quarter of this year and comes at a time when the state is pushing ahead its wider digital ID development efforts.
Service Tasmania revealed plans to link “discrete government identities to a single whole-of-government identifier” in its request for tender for the portal released on the weekend.
The Queensland Police Service has taken delivery of millions of dollars worth of new Body Worn Cameras and Tasers, which will soon be unpacked and deployed to the frontline.
The mobile application helps more than 5000 of WA Police’s frontline officers to work more safely and efficiently every day. It is already assisting the agency’s transition to digital traffic infringement notices, removing the need to process up to 180,000 handwritten infringement notices every year.
The government is also planning to develop a Digital Age Policy over the next two years using $6.2 million in funding that will also be used to “position Australia as a world leader in regulating the digital economy”.
NSW Health wants the virtual care strategy to cover care planning and coordination across different providers; clinical collaboration, innovation and research; patient self-management; and a digitally-capable workforce.
Features on the new myBOQ app include face or fingerprint recognition login, budget creation, live in-app chat, bill tracking, PayID and roundups to help reach savings goals.
