InfoGovANZ is a community of international professionals across the data and information sphere - Data Privacy, AI and Ethics, Cyber and Information Security, eDiscovery, ESG, Data and Infonomics, FOI, Information Governance, Legal, Records Management, Risk and Compliance - with a multi-disciplinary focus to collaborate and share best practices and promote global information governance innovation.
Information Governance is the policies, procedures, technologies and culture that organisations build to maximise the value of information while minimising associated risks and costs – see more in our InfoGovANZ IG Industry Report
Upcoming Events and Workshops
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Roundtable: AI and IG: How to Prepare for AI Regulation
ComplimentaryMonday, 11 November 2024, 12:30pm -2pm AEDT
This Roundtable event features special guest, Professor Brian Ray, Director, Centre for Cybersecurity and Privacy Protection
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Cleveland State University to discuss the importance of information governance in preparing for AI regulations and complying with AI Standards. -
Meet Up: Australia’s AI Safety Standard
AUD $40.00 + gstWednesday, 20 Nov 2024, 12pm-1pm AEST
Join us for our upcoming Meet Up to discuss Australia’s new AI Safety Standard designed to help organisations develop and deploy AI systems in Australia safely and reliably.
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Meet Up: Nexus: Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
AUD $40.00 + gstTuesday, 14 Jan 2025, 12pm-1pm AEDT
Join us for our first thought-provoking virtual MeetUp of 2025, where we will explore Yuval Noah Harari’s groundbreaking new book, Nexus. Harari’s themes—information, truth, and the rise of artificial intelligence—are more relevant than ever, both on a societal level and within our own organisations.
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Meet Up: The Age of AI
AUD $40.00 + gstTuesday, 11 March 2025, 12pm-1pm AEDT
Join us for our March MeetUp, where we will discussThe Age of AI: And Our Human Future, co-authored by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher. This timely book explores the profound implications of artificial intelligence on society, governance, and our human future.
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Latest News
OAIC Data Breach Report: Key Themes
From January to June 2024, OAIC received 527 data breach notifications, the highest number since July to December 2020. The top five sectors that notified of data breaches in this period, were Health Service Providers, the Australian government, Finance, Education, and Retail. In a media release accompanying the Notifiable Data Breaches Report […]
Read MoreIPC Data Breach Report: Key Themes
The first NSW Mandatory Notification of Data Breach Scheme Trends Report for November 2023 to June 2024 was released on 1 October. According to the Report, 79% of all notifications made were caused by human error, followed by criminal or malicious attack. Acting Privacy Commissioner Sonia Minutillo said, ‘The high frequency of […]
Read MoreThe Role of Information Governance in Reducing Data Breach Risks
As data breaches continue to rise, the importance of robust governance to align and improve integrated cybersecurity, technology procurement, privacy compliance, and information lifecycle management becomes critical. Recently released reports by the Office of the Australian Information Commission and the New South Wales Information Commission reveal the high percentage of […]
Read MorePrivacy Bill tabled in Parliament
On 12 September 2024, the Attorney-General, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC tabled the long-awaited Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 (the Bill). This would enact the first tranche of reforms to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) and implement 23 of the 25 proposals the Government agreed to in its September […]
Australia’s new AI Safety Standard
On 5 September 2024, Australia’s Department of Industry, Science and Resources published a voluntary AI Safety Standard to provide practical guidance to help organisations develop and deploy AI systems in Australia safely and reliably. The publication sets out 10 voluntary AI guardrails and how to use them. Definitions, links to […]
Mandatory Guardrails for High-Risk AI
Along with the AI Safety Standard, the Australian Government released on 5 September 2024, a new proposals paper with options for mandating guardrails for the development and deployment of AI in high-risk settings in Australia. The proposal paper includes: Proposed principles for defining high-risk AI. 10 proposed mandatory guardrails. Regulatory options […]
Europe’s AI Treaty signed by UK and US
On 5 September 2024, the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law (CETS No.225) (‘the treaty’) was signed by the UK, US, the EU, Andorra, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Norway, the Republic of Moldova and San Marino. The treaty aims to ensure that […]
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The central problem for humanity in the 21st century is how we can nurture sufficient legitimate political power and wisdom, adequate technical mastery, and robust norms to constrain technologies to ensure they continue to do far more good than harm. How in other words, we can contain the seemingly uncontainable.
We don't need to totally reinvent the institutional wheel, creating more opportunities for rivalry and grandstanding. We just should find every means possible of improving it - and fast.
The common thread here is governance: of software systems of microchips, of businesses and research institutes, of countries, and of the international community. At each level is a thicket of incentives, sunk costs, institutional inertia, conflicting fiefdoms and worldviews that must be cut through. Make no mistake. Ethics, safety, containment - these will be products of good governance above all. But good governance doesn't just come from well-defined rules and effective institutional frameworks. ... [it] needs to ensure there is a self-critical culture that actively wants to implement them.
- Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and Inflection AI, in The Coming Wave