"More than 180 New Zealand public agencies have transferred masses of data to Microsoft cloud computing servers in Australia for storage and processing since 2019. Sensitive courts data could be headed that way."
"The NDMS [National Disease Management System] was being hosted within a 'private isolated section' of Amazon's 'cloud' of data warehouse servers in Sydney."
#ProPublica won the prestigious #PublicService#Pulitzer for “groundbreaking & ambitious reporting that pierced the thick wall of secrecy surrounding #SCOTUS to reveal how a small group of politically influential #billionaires wooed justices w/lavish gifts & travel, pushing the Court to adopt its first code of conduct.” The prize is given to the staff of a news organization that performed “meritorious public service.”
"... because Bennett will now be governing a public agency specially designed to have an arms-length relationship with the government of the day, to retain public confidence in Pharmac’s integrity, she will have to display total independence from the ministers that she is closely associated with."
Links to these are in the article. This is an example of the time-consuming public interest work journalists do, regardless of the structural biases of their employer.
"To repeat the obvious: these [public service] job cuts are ideological in nature. They are occurring (a) in order to reduce the role of government, (b) to open up monetising opportunities for the private sector, and (c) to abolish outreach programmes formerly targeted at Māori communities, which is the real aim behind the jargon about getting back to “core” (i.e.white) functions."
#EU#Journalism#Media#PublicService#News#AI: "DG Justice Principal Adviser on the Digital Transition Paul Nemitz suggested European media houses could leverage AI to create a European public space that allows for cross-border debates unhindered by national languages.
He said he could imagine a platform that showcases all the different news productions by licensed TV stations to all European citizens paid with automated translations.
“Wouldn’t it be great to allow Hungarians to have a view of their own country in Hungarian through the eyes of news produced in all member states?” he asked.
Nemitz emphasised the importance of funding in the media sector and how industrial policy could empower and direct the capitalistic market towards the public interest. However, public finances still have a role to play he believes.
FFS can we please get a whole-of-government case management service, where people want to work for more than a few months at a time?
I know people who have a case manager with WINZ, with Kāinga Ora, and with a bunch of other social services. The turnover is so rapid that they're constantly meeting new case managers, most of whom have not been briefed properly (if at all) about the particular circumstances of the citizens they're meant to be helping. Useless.
The Ontario government is hiring Archaeology Review Officers. If you or someone you know works in archaeology in Ontario and is interested in a career as a regulator, this is a great opportunity.
This posting is open, so please spread the word!
This was my first job in the Ontario Public Service, so I'm happy to answer questions.