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Meet the state government finalists in the 2021 iTnews Benchmark Awards

By Staff Writer on Jan 29, 2021 12:38PM Insiders speak about check-in apps and a large-scale digital twin. The state government category of the 2021 iTnews Benchmark Awards was among those that attracted the most competition. Now you can watch short videos about the finalist projects. The three videos feature ACT Health, the NSW Department of Customer Service s (DCS) Spatial Services arm and Service NSW. Watch them to see ACT Health CIO explain the thinking behind the state’s COVID check-in app, Check In CBR. He discusses the data use challenges this created and other issues encountered. You can also watch the director of digital channels and digital licences and a project manager at Service NSW talk about the NSW COVID Safe Check-In app – used by millions of people and tens of thousands of businesses. They explain their approach to building the app.

Announcing the 2021 iTnews Benchmark Awards finalists

By Staff Writer on Dec 18, 2020 12:55PM Standout government, health and finance IT projects revealed. We are excited to announce the 2021 iTnews Benchmark Awards finalists. iTnews received more than 90 nominations for IT projects that took place in a year like no other. They include federal and state government projects enabling critical Covid-19 response activities, challenging IT risk and consumer data projects by banks, a local government effort to democratise the use of data, and a web application that has saved Australian families millions of dollars. Nominees also include significant projects in the telecommunications, construction and energy sectors, among others. Some of these projects were completed under extreme pressure during the pandemic. Some involve systems used by thousands of employees and millions of citizens.

Friday essay: how a long-lost list is helping us remap Darug place names and culture on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River

In 2017, I came across an extraordinary document in Sydney’s Mitchell Library: a handwritten list of 178 Aboriginal place names for Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River, compiled in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister, the Reverend John McGarvie. I was stunned. I stared at the screen, hardly believing my eyes. After years of research, my own and others, I thought most of the Aboriginal names for the river were lost forever, destroyed in the aftermath of invasion and dispossession. Yet, suddenly, this cache of riches. A page from Rev McGarvie’s 1829 list of Aboriginal names for places on Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

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