Samoa and Papua New Guinea’s recent experiences with cyber intrusions are the latest reminders of the urgent need for enhanced cybersecurity resilience in the Pacific. What’s needed is capacity building and coordinated response initiatives. On …
Australia must do more to shape its artificial intelligence future. The release of DeepSeek is a stark reminder that if Australia does not invest in its own AI solutions, it will remain reliant on foreign …
Building public trust is vital to creating effective artificial intelligence (AI) regulation in Australia—not sovereign large-scale datasets. The assertion that AI regulation would be ineffective without the existence of large-scale sovereign datasets—as recently argued in …
Most people never think of undersea communications cables. Well, the people of Tasmania were thinking of them in 2022, when the state’s two main subsea cables were both severed within hours of each other. The …
Australia has an opportunity to strengthen its position as a regional digital hub in the Indo-Pacific, as the submarine cable industry undergoes a transformation. Capitalising on this chance will take strategic focus and decisive action. …
AUKUS won’t work without seamless information sharing and data exchange between the partner nations and their private sectors. And getting that right will demand the establishment of a common federated cloud-based platform that leverages artificial …
Despite numerous scandals and calls for it to be banned, TikTok, the Chinese-owned app, continues to enjoy immense popularity in Australia. ByteDance, the Beijing-based company that owns and controls TikTok, is currently under investigation by …
Last week’s Optus data breach exposed the personally identifiable information of up to 9.8 million customers and former customers in Australia, including sensitive identity document details, with records going as far back as 2017. Although …
The AUKUS pact is an important piece of regional architecture that has the potential to operate as a technology accelerator to strengthen security and stability in the Indo-Pacific. It seeks to do this by enhancing …
Democracies need to accept the mainstream adoption of end-to-end encryption in popular messaging and communications applications like WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage and, in the future according to Meta, Facebook Messenger. End-to-end encryption, where only the sender …
The legislative framework governing electronic surveillance by Australia’s policing and intelligence agencies is undergoing major reforms. There have long been calls for such an overhaul given the significant changes in the way we communicate since …
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital adoption and digital transformation in many regions of the world. In Southeast Asia, this has driven unprecedented demand for online services in retail, digital payments, education and health. However, …