Australia touts new '4D' modelling of infrastructure as boon for region's urban planning.
Australia is integrating new technologies into its urban centres and one of the projects that showcase this urban development innovation is "Data61".
Read more: AU: City planning goes virtual with 'digital twin' tech
Highly affordable mobile internet has propelled Australia to the top of a global ‘digital quality of life’ index despite the nation’s beleaguered broadband network delivering some of the world’s slowest internet speeds.
Australia was ranked first out of 65 countries in the 2019 Digital Quality of Life (DQL) index released this week by internet privacy company Surfshark.
Read more: Digital quality of life: Australia tops rankings despite ‘third-world’ broadband
Darwin City Council has resolved to implement privacy and security best practice in the gathering, storage and analysis of data collected through its smart technology.
Lord Mayor Kon Vatskalis said “The framework Council has agreed to establish will provide an overarching guide to the management of data gathered through our smart technologies and address data privacy, ethics and security.”
The Australian city is partnering with newDemocracy, a leading foundation working in citizen participation, to design and oversee the jury process.
Sydney has sent out invitations to 15,000 random households in its hunt to involve “50 everyday people” in a citizens’ jury to feed into its new long-term plan, Sydney 2050.
Read more: AU: Sydney to assemble citizen jury to help shape future city plan
A standardised data platform for all IoT applications across Newcastle’s smart cities program will be implemented by NNNCo.
The City of Newcastle has signed up to a single smart cities Internet of Things (IoT) enterprise platform from the National Narrowband Network Company (NNNCo), the company has announced.
Read more: AU: New South Wales: Newcastle smart city moves forward with standardised data platform