Gartner recently identified the top five government technology trends for 2024 that are intended to guide public sector leaders to deliver better, faster and increasingly more cost-effective citizen services. Commenting on the forecast, Todd Kimbriel, VP Analyst at Gartner said:…
According to IDC’s latest Worldwide Security Spending Guide, spending on security hardware, services, and software in Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (APeJ) is expected to reach US$36 billion in 2024, an increase of 12.3% over the previous year. With the evolving threat-landscape…
The recently released Wi-Fi 7 promises new features to boost Wi-Fi performance and improve connectivity across a variety of environments. Wi-Fi Alliance claims that Wi-Fi CERTIFIED 7 (Wi-Fi 7) will enable innovations that rely on high throughput, deterministic latency, and…
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) March 2024 quarterly productivity statistics, the nation’s labour productivity rose for the second consecutive quarter as hours worked declined from historical highs, following the end of a bubble in productivity growth during…
Ethernet Alliance’s 2024 Ethernet Roadmap The Ethernet Alliance just released its 2024 Ethernet Roadmap to graphically inform the ICT industry of Ethernet’s past, present and exciting future. Since 2015, the Ethernet Alliance has published versions of its Ethernet Roadmap, providing…
A recent IDC report, entitled ‘FutureScape: Worldwide Insurance 2024 Predictions’, predicted that by 2027, 40% of AI algorithms utilised by insurers throughout the policyholder value-chain will use synthetic data to guarantee fairness within the system and comply with regulations. This…
IEEE recently released a number of forecast on technology trends to watch for in 2024 that will impact BICSI members. These involve the Foundational Technologies, Mobility and Energy sectors. Read on to find out how you’re impacted. Foundational Technologies involve…
The Business Continuity Institute’s (BCI’s) recent ‘Emergency and Crisis Communications Report’ examined how crisis communication methods have evolved over the past decade in response to changes in working habits, the impact of new technologies, and shifting privacy policies, while identifying…
According to the latest Deloitte Access Economics Employment Forecasts, 2023 was a strong year for job gains, with an additional 381,000 Australians employed, translating to almost 32,000 people per month. Commenting on the report, Deloitte Access Economics partner, David Rumbens,…
New economic research from Accenture estimates that a faster, higher capacity NBN will improve Australia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by a total of around AU$400 billion over the eight years from 2023 to 2030. For the first time in Australia,…
According to a recent Deloitte Access Economics report, Australia’s government-led boom in infrastructure investment pushed the value of project investment very close to an all-time high in September 2023. But the capacity constraints and cost blow-outs of the past two…
According to Foundry’s recently released 23rd ‘Annual State of the CIO’ survey, most organisations today must grapple with several converging trends reshaping the role of the CIO. For example, cybersecurity remains a persistent threat to business operations; AI disrupts conventional…
According to a recent Gartner report, when organisations implement rigid return to office (RTO) mandates, high-performers, women and millennials are the most likely to quit their job. The global survey of 2,080 knowledge-worker employees in 2023 measured the impact of…
A recent Deloitte report found that over 75% of Australian business and technology leaders expect Generative AI to drive substantial transformation within their organisation and industry over the next three years, but half say a lack of technical talent and…
New Zealand’s Workplace Relations & Safety Minister, Brooke van Velden recently announced the adult minimum wage rate will increase by 2% to NZ$23.15 an hour from 1 April 2024. Her announcement noted: “The economy has changed significantly over the past…