Fitzsimmons claims trust is always factored into government-built tech systems
The NSW resilience commissioner pointed to how state and federal governments have handled the COVID-19 pandemic as examples.
December 15, 2020 03:32 GMT (19:32 PST) | Topic: Security
New South Wales resilience commissioner and former commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire Service Shane Fitzsimmons has assured the systems built by government to respond to crises whether it is a natural disaster such as a bushfire, or the COVID-19 pandemic are done so with the user s trust in mind. In the government and public information space, we are absolutely invested in making sure that we are building systems that are virtuous, and absolutely with the intent of doing good and doing better for people. That is the core focus. Not to misuse and build a break in that trust contract, he said, speaking during an Arq Group roundtab
The state has also found the COVIDSafe app s effectiveness to be insignificant.
December 14, 2020 03:52 GMT (19:52 PST) | Topic: Innovation
A parliamentary inquiry into Victoria s contact tracing system and testing regime has found that the state was not fit to deal with any escalation of cases, which eventually led to significant errors during its second wave of the pandemic.
This finding, made by the Victorian Legislative Council Legal and Social Issues Committee, came with 46 others along with 19 recommendations that were published in a 260-page report [PDF] on Monday morning.
According to the report, the Victorian government s communicable diseases track and tracing system, called the Public Health Event Surveillance System (PHESS), experienced an unprecedented volume of data during the pandemic, which affected system performance and reporting timeliness .