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.
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.
McLaren, who is currently country head for consultancy marketplace XpertiseNow in the US, will join the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy in Australia early next month.
The addresses of more than 500,000 organisations including defence sites, a missile maintenance unit and domestic violence shelters were inadvertently made public in the first major breach of the NSW government’s massive trove of QR code data.
The Commonwealth and South Australian governments have signed a preschool funding agreement that will benefit about 80,000 South Australian children in the year before school over the next four years.
The agency, Transport for NSW, has partnered with Cisco to explore ways to use technology to improve the experience for commuters, travellers and public transport users.
The New South Wales government (Australia) has created a panel arrangement for departments and agencies to source private or community cloud services for protected-level public sector data.
