As policy makers scramble to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, CEDA Chief Economist, Jarrod Ball, argues that with more access to relevant data and smarter use of the data already available, we could better anticipate events and quickly assess the effectiveness of our policy responses.
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01/04/2020
https://events.ceda.com.au/Digital-hub/Blogs/CEDA-Blog/April-2020/COVID-19-Real-time-economic-data-is-in-high-demand-but-short-supply
CEDA Chief Executive Melinda Cilento says that the Federal Government needs to implement policy that drives digitisation in the Australian economy to unlock the dynamism and productivity that we need to restore growth. Read more…
14/10/2020
https://events.ceda.com.au/Digital-hub/Blogs/CEDA-Blog/October-2020/Government-must-outline-digital-vision-to-turbocharge-economic-recovery
Australia must not allow the national broadband network to destroy its hood name for economic management, writes Dr Michael Porter in the Australian Financial Review. Read more…
11/02/2011
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Time-to-ditch-broadband-clunker-Michael-Porter-s-AFR-op-ed
Australia has fallen for the second year in a row in an important global ranking of the digital competitiveness of 63 nations released today. Read more…
01/10/2020
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/Media-releases/Australia-continues-to-slip-in-digital-competitiveness,-must-build-on-gains-made-during-COVID-19-pandemic
Speaking at a CEDA event in Perth, Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate said that the biggest challenge of running Australia Post is thinking about the future of the workforce. Read more…
04/12/2018
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Australia-Post-CEO-optimistic-about-future-of-work-despite-workforce-and-technological-challenges
Australia has all the ingredients to build and develop the next generation of tools and AI based systems that we can export. It is a digital export opportunity for the country, Data61 Chief Executive Officer, Adrian Turner, told a CEDA audience in Sydney. Read more…
21/06/2019
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Australia’s-ingredients-for-success-in-AI-are-perishable
Privacy is not a new issue, but I think it is fair to say with digital platforms it has been completely turbo-charged, ACCC Chairman Rod Sims has told CEDA at an event in Perth. Read more…
11/10/2019
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Australian-data,-privacy-laws-out-of-date
Australia has slipped one place to 14 in a global ranking of the digital competitiveness of 63 nations released today, with key weaknesses including business agility, tech skills and communications. Read more…
26/09/2019
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/Media-releases/Australia-digital-competitiveness-slips
There is a win-win scenario possible for Australia, where we capture the benefits of automation for the country as a whole, and also ensure that those benefits are broadly shared across the Australian workforce, McKinsey & Company Associate Partner, Hassan Noura told a CEDA audience in Melbourne. Read more…
19/06/2019
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Automation-a-win-win-scenario-for-Australia
“A lot of companies have CSRs – corporate social responsibilities…It’s a good combination of words: responsibility is good, social is good, but what it stands for is being used the wrong way in so many different places. It’s used as a check-box,” Chobani Founder and Chief Executive Officer Hamdi Ulukaya has told a CEDA audience in Sydney. Read more…
05/09/2017
https://events.ceda.com.au/News-and-analysis/CEDA-Events/Business-must-play-a-social-role-in-communities