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During Digital Health Week 2025, Acting CIO Darren Douglass outlined Health New Zealand’s 10‑year Health Digital Investment Plan. He emphasized that while data volumes are growing, data quality remains a barrier, and that stabilising legacy systems is as vital as launching new initiatives. The newly formed Centre for Digital Modernisation is intended to move beyond strategy to deliver tangible change, with a focus on clinician‑led design and high‑quality data to improve patient care. Douglass warned that without coordinated effort, New Zealand’s health sector could fall behind global digital transformation trends.
The video recaps the second DSA Observatory conference in Amsterdam, marking two years since the EU Digital Services Act entered full force. Organizers and researchers assess how the law has been applied, highlighting a surge in Commission investigations, risk‑assessment cycles,...
The week’s GovTech roundup highlighted a wave of leadership turnover across state and local agencies, alongside a ransomware‑driven payment outage that forced municipalities to reroute resident billing. Minnesota’s chief information officer Terry Tones announced his spring departure for a higher‑education post,...
His Excellency Omar Sultan Al Olama framed the United Arab Emirates’ digital strategy as a national imperative, arguing that the country must look beyond short‑term crypto price swings and focus on the underlying technology. He contrasted the UAE’s proactive stance...
The TeleGeography episode examines how the AI revolution is being constrained not by silicon chips but by the physical layers that move data—subsea cables, terrestrial fiber, and the power grid. Host Greg Bryan interviews Luis Colasante of Colt Technology Services,...
On Safer Internet Day 2026, Dr. Vicki Nash highlighted the UK’s Online Safety Act, which obliges online pornography providers to verify users are at least 18. The law makes it illegal to supply adult content to minors, positioning age‑verification as...
Department of Homeland Security officials told a House panel that body-camera rollouts and surveillance upgrades are expanding but remain only partially deployed. ICE has about 3,000 active body cameras out of roughly 13,000 field agents, with another 6,000 cameras being...
Acting ICE director Todd Lyons told the House Homeland Security Committee there is no ICE database tracking U.S. citizens, rejecting claims fueled by think-tank reports and a viral clip of an agent in Maine. DHS public affairs reiterated the department...
The podcast reports that the 2026 U.S. tax-filing season faces significant strain after the IRS cut roughly 19% of its workforce in 2025—about 19,000 jobs—including 8,300 staff who handled critical filing-season duties. Those reductions, combined with paused modernization efforts and...
European municipalities in Riga and Turin are piloting the 5G4LIVES initiative, a hybrid private 5G network designed to boost public‑safety capabilities and environmental monitoring. The project tackles divergent topographies—flat lake‑level terrain in Latvia and hilly, mountainous zones in Italy—by tailoring...
The Pisces subsea cable system is a new 3,000‑kilometre, 16‑pair fiber network that directly connects Ireland’s west coast with Portugal, and via branching units, with Spain and France. Designed as an open‑access, multi‑user platform, the system offers six distinct routes—Ireland‑Portugal, Ireland‑Spain,...
Acting ICE director Todd Lyons told lawmakers that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not maintain any database tracking American citizens or protesters. He repeatedly denied that agents photograph or catalog First Amendment activity, and declined to explain an incident...
The European Commission hosted a sectoral deep‑dive on AI in mobility, transport and automotive, outlining how the newly launched Apply AI strategy seeks to embed artificial intelligence across the EU’s transport ecosystem. Speakers Max Lea and Jakob Lman highlighted current...
The MIT Mobility Forum episode introduced Oregon's shift from the voluntary ORIGO program to a mandatory road usage charge (RUC) under House Bill 3991, signed by Gov. Tina Kotek, marking the first statewide per‑mile tax in the U.S. The charge is...
The FBI Anchorage Field Office, led by Assistant Special Agent Brandon Waddle, announced Operation Winter Shield, a nationwide cyber‑security campaign aimed at bolstering the digital defenses of Alaskans and the broader United States. The initiative distills lessons from real‑world investigations into...
The video explains how to authorize sources to route traffic to a Protective DNS resolver, a required step before configuring internal destinations. Authorized sources are individual IP addresses (IPv4, IPv6, or SSE providers) grouped into logical "source sets" that reflect...
Protective DNS’s Policy Editor lets organizations create, manage and customize DNS filtering rules that sit at an upstream resolver for roaming and mobile devices. Policies exist at two levels—global (CISA-managed) and organizational—and can be static (rule-based) or dynamic (threat-feed driven),...
Protective DNS’s Resolver Logs feature lets organization users with reporting roles preview, filter, download and schedule full DNS query extracts from the management dashboard. Users can filter by source set, authorized source, policy, record type, name and time range, preview...
The video walks through user management in the Protective DNS management application, showing how managers add organizational users, assign roles, and control access. By default new users receive read-only access to dashboards, policies, threat analysis and organization info; additional roles...
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General has opened an audit into DHS privacy practices, focusing initially on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Office of Biometric Identity Management to examine how personally identifiable information and biometric data...
Federal officials and industry experts warned that as government services digitize, robust identity assurance is essential to prevent sophisticated fraud, AI-enabled impersonation and emerging quantum risks. The GSA’s federal identity and cyber security division supports agencies with centralized resources (idmanagement.gov),...
The video revisits the sudden disappearance of NHS England’s open‑source policy pages, confirming that the removal was intentional rather than an accidental outage. NHS England told Digital Health News it was part of a broader web‑refresh and that the organization...
In this episode of Everything Digital Health, host Marcus Bore sits down with Kevin Monk, CEO of SARD‑JV—a joint venture between his software firm and an NHS trust—to discuss the chronic shortage of technically skilled staff within the National Health...
Carnegie Mellon’s MPPPM Data Analytics master’s frames data science as a tool for policy impact, blending technical training in machine learning, predictive analytics and causal inference with real-world, experiential projects. The program emphasizes applying analytics to messy, unstructured public-sector data...
Government Technology’s weekly roundup spotlights the GovTech 100 list of established vendors — from AI deployment platform Darwin AI to vehicle-tracking firm Flock Safety and digital payment provider PayIt — that are increasingly underpinning city and state operations. NAVA acquired...
