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Building Capacity and Mobilizing Technologies to Foster Community Safety, Well-Being and Inclusivity

Ensuring the safety of citizens The safety of every city is of paramount importance, and this is particularly the case when it comes to looking after the most vulnerable. Emergency services like police and ambulance do what they can, but sometimes they are stretched and don’t have the capacity to a…

Building Capacity and Mobilizing Technologies to Foster Community Safety, Well-Being and Inclusivity

National Security & Public Safety

Evolving Capabilities and Advancing Public Safety

Australian and New Zealand communities are experiencing a period of great adjustment and now more than ever it is important government agencies work together to ensure public safety and collaborative emergency response. Covid-19, crime, natural disasters, cyber threats and the increasing risk of terrorism are just some of the challenges community leaders are facing. With areas of rapid population redistribution adding to the difficulty of predicting resource allocation, up to date emergency preparedness and innovative methods of incident response are crucial to mitigating risk and protecting the public. By sharing best practice and advancing methods of response and preparedness, agencies …

Evolving Capabilities and Advancing Public Safety

National Security & Public Safety

Key Takeaways From The Innovate SA 2022 Showcase

While covid has accelerated what was already an increasing demand for digital services from the constituent, 80% of the attendees in the CX and Digital stream felt that they were at the beginning or at the strategizing stage of their CX and digital journey. Both frightening and exciting when you see how far things have come since the start of the pandemic. But also, a reminder of the journey that lays ahead of us. When the main audience was asked what the priorities for the next 12 to 24 months the answers told us there is a lot on the …

Key Takeaways From The Innovate SA 2022 Showcase

National Security & Public Safety

Achieving Digital Transformation across the Australian Public Service by 2025

Ultimately the Data Scheme is focussed on “increasing the availability and use of Australian government data,” so that it helps government to deliver services that are “simple, helpful, respectful and transparent,” allowing government to operate better. This creates great possibilities, and thus the ONDC is always optimistic, “believing that the best is always yet to come.” Data has largely become a “significant world currency,” with the volume of data “growing at an exponential rate.” In a practical Australian sense, during the global financial crisis a little over a decade ago, Australian government officials, who were involved in trying to alleviate …

Achieving Digital Transformation across the Australian Public Service by 2025

National Security & Public Safety

The impact of climate change on emergency management responses

Across Australia, the start of the pandemic also coincided with more floods, bushfires and other natural disasters. The week that COVID-19 was first detected in late December 2019, was also the week that the black summer bushfires began across eastern Australia. Since then, all emergency services have been over-stretched and at times, overwhelmed. When coupled with imposed limitations on movement, resource reallocation, and team and volunteer restrictions due to quarantine requirements, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced a reassessment of emergency management and pandemic response activities. Below we hear first-hand accounts from Dr Alan March, Professor, Urban Planning, Disaster Risk Reduction …

The impact of climate change on emergency management responses

National Security & Public Safety

Transforming Emergency Service Organisations through Collaboration and Leadership

At the Transforming Emergency Service Organisations through Collaboration and Leadership virtual event as part of the Public Sector Network Defence, Security and Justice National Insights, we heard from Jodie Pearson, Superintendent, Western Australia Police Force and Janelle Baily, Assistant Director, Data Science and Analytics, Western Australia Police Force as they dived into policing in a technology enabled future. In this article they explore: Given the distances and the scope of their reach, which includes a number of very remote communities, all they are really trying to do is to “address some of the fundamental policing principles, which are pretty simple …

Transforming Emergency Service Organisations through Collaboration and Leadership

National Security & Public Safety

Spotlight Interview - Defence, Security and Justice ANZ Q1 National Insights

The move to “digital transformation” has certainly accelerated in the last couple of years and a big driver for that has been the pandemic. Sometimes changing an outdated process is a lot of effort but when you have no choice i.e. you can’t travel to collect or handle a disk containing some important CCTV evidence, you need another way. Digital Evidence Management solutions where there before but necessity has definitely meant the benefits are being realised quicker. And a change from some of the outdated costly processes to a quicker safer way of handling and managing digital evidence and cases …

Spotlight Interview - Defence, Security and Justice ANZ Q1 National Insights

National Security & Public Safety

Using technology to increase resilience and coordinate response in times of crisis

At the recent Emergency Management Innovation event, we heard from Trevor Jones, Assistant Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and Joe Buffone, Director-General, Emergency Management Australia, Department of Home Affairs as they discuss developing standards and technologies to enable collaborative emergency response. In this article they explore: The framework is the primary mechanism by which all Commonwealth agencies work collectively to deliver a national effort in support of a particular jurisdiction that has an operational responsibility in dealing with the crisis at hand - Trevor Jones, Assistant Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet In other words, whilst the …

Using technology to increase resilience and coordinate response in times of crisis

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