The NSW Government will contribute $7.5 million to establish the centre and support it to 2013. Matching in-kind support will be provided the CSIRO and NICTA.
At start up in 2011 the centre will employ about 20 people in the CSIRO's ICT Centre in Marsfield but from the outset will operate over multiple sites. The Marsfield site will be connected by broadband to NICTA at the Australian Technology Park in Redfern, Sydney and to the NSW Government's NBN testbed at Parkbridge Estate, south west of Sydney. In 2011 the network will extend to Armidale, an NBN first release site.
Weiterlesen: Australia: NSW Government, NICTA & CSIRO set up broadband innovation centre
The NSW Government has committed $7.5 million to help set up a new broadband centre tasked with researching future applications to run on the National Broadband Network.
The Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation concept was announced in Sydney's north-west today.
We need to make sure that Australia’s toolbox is world’s best practice for dealing with this,” the AAP news agency quoted Bowen as saying. The type of data that would be collected include digital facial images and 10-digit fingerprint scans. Bowen said this would help establish the identity of protection visa applicants who arrived in Australia often without sufficient documentation.
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While Health Minister Nicola Roxon said consumers would "truly control" their personal electronic health records at her e-health forum last week, attendees did not see a draft concept of operations, showing a patient portal tacked on to a public/private providers' shared e-health record system (SEHR).
The confidential draft for the $467 million personally controlled e-health record (PCEHR) system was produced by the National E-Health Transition Authority, just before the forum.
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The trial is to receive AUD 4mn (US$ 3.87mn) in funding and will see elderly citizens provided with telehealth monitoring units and high-definition video conferencing systems in their homes and primary care facilities. The new equipment will monitor blood pressure, glucose levels and cardiovascular function, and will be able to send alerts to a doctor or nurse when needed.
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