A Sydney local council has begun utilise RFID technology to measure the effectiveness of its waste management program, but without telling its residents their bins and their contents are being tracked
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The council rubbish truck didn't pick up my bin last week. Instead, the garbage contractor left a big yellow sticker highlighting exactly why my old egg shells, rancid fruit, microwave pizza boxes, an ancient and smelly pair of sneakers, and the odd brick had been left to rot on my property.
Next month the Senate Select Committee on the NBN will table its final report. It will reflect the views of 100 or so submitted documents and a series of public hearings.
There will always be something more politically sexy than e-health for state governments, meaning the National E-Health Transition Authority's business case for a national electronic medical record might just sit on the shelf gathering dust forever.
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New technology gains legitimacy when it solves real business problems, but becomes indispensable when it offers to take that business in completely new directions. Such has been the case at Maroochy Shire Council, where a quite conventional thin-client rollout is now facilitating new ways of working for employees in the office and on the road.
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Years of hype may have failed to produce a viable model for online commercial procurement, but Victoria's Labor government is convinced it's struck gold this time as it formally launches an online procurement system expected to save $109 million over the next decade.
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There are about a million tonnes of glass from old CRT monitors sitting in homes and offices - all set to become waste over the next 10 years.
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