Technology has made life under coronavirus workable and bearable for a great many. But will it mean further intrusions into our privacy that normally would be unacceptable?
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Australia is falling behind other countries in digital skills and infrastructure, but smarter planning and investment can turn things around.
In the midst of the information technology revolution, Australia’s productivity growth has been slowing. It ought to have been the other way around.
Accessing the right information in a timely manner is essential, but difficult for newly arrived refugees. Information varies, plus there are language barriers and geographical complications.
Important programs helping older adults learn how to use the internet are effective but limited.
Outside IT projects managed without the knowledge of IT departments are on the rise. What are the risks and possible consequences?
More students must acquire IT skills in order to secure jobs with upward mobility, according to a researcher who developed an index that shows a dramatic growth in ‘IT intensive’ jobs.
Maps can be an invaluable tool in a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis. A pilot project trained Syrian refugees at a Jordan camp to create their own.
Americans’ widespread belief that they live in a meritocracy where anyone can get ahead actually makes inequality even worse, particularly in terms of gender.
Cloud services became popular due to the benefits they can offer to users, but their adoption can be opposed by IT departments.
The printing press, like the internet, has been revolutionary. But technology alone is not enough – access to to it must be open to ensure its benefits are felt.
Cloud computing is on the rise, but so are questions about its security. This is why we need systems where the data itself enforces security, not just the cloud system within which it is contained.
Large numbers of veterans hold misconceptions about IT work that discourage them from pursuing careers in the field.
The cyber-attack hit 200,000 computers and a number of big global organisations. But it hasn’t made much in ransom money.
The more often Americans used their phones to obtain information, the less they trusted strangers. How can this be, and what does it mean?
More data isn’t necessarily better unless it’s properly collected, curated and analysed.
The ATO system crash was unusual, but it was handled as well as could be expected.
Cyber threats are universal. But the appropriate response may be quite different in academia from what works in the corporate world.
When a system is as complex as that of Medicare’s, it is going to be extremely expensive to rebuild and it is not possible to simply “retrofit” an off-the-shelf product from another company.
New tests and drugs have always impacted health care. But completely different kinds of emerging technologies will soon radically alter how health care is both accessed and delivered.
Top contributors
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Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
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Assistant Professor in Management of Information Sytems, Propedia
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Head, The Cyber Academy, Edinburgh Napier University
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Information Specialist, University of Sheffield
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Postdoctoral research associate, Technical University of Munich
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Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Altoona campus, Penn State
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External Research Professor at Santa Fe Institute, USA & Professor, Head of the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT), Head of Science Board, Initiative for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP), University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor of Sociology, La Trobe University
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Associate professor, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne
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ESRC Future Research Leader Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Information Sciences & Technology, and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Penn State
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Futurist at Next Scandinavia, associate at Initiative for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP) and Research Associate, University of Southern Denmark
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Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, The Open University
