All posts tagged "audit"

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  Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout flawed, audit finds

  The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine by Australia’s health department was “partly effective” but planning was slow and incomplete in the early stages, delivery to priority groups was flawed and

  • Posted August 24, 2022
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  UK launches priorities review of legacy IT systems

  The UK government is piloting a “dynamic” review of its ageing IT legacy systems, and aims by 2022 to roll out a new framework to identify “at risk” infrastructure and

  • Posted October 3, 2021
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  Australia’s auditor general calls for more funding as number of investigations drop

  The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) – which conducted six fewer audits than its target this year, due to budget constraints – will be forced to further cut the number

  • Posted October 4, 2020
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  Australian environment department failed in planning oversight role, says auditors

  Campaigners have called for the creation of an independent environmental protection agency in Australia, after the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) released a report condemning the government’s implementation of the

  • Posted June 29, 2020
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  AI experts call for ‘bias bounties’ to boost ethics scrutiny

  Experts from the private sector and leading research labs in the US and Europe have joined forces to create a toolkit for turning AI ethics principles into practice. The preprint

  • Posted April 24, 2020
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  Audit finds huge cyber skills gaps at US Department of Homeland Security

  Officials at the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) lack the data to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their cyber personnel and are more than two years late in

  • Posted October 7, 2019
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  South African officials to receive ‘lifestyle audits’ in anti-corruption drive

  South Africa’s Public Works and Infrastructure minister, Patricia De Lille, has announced that “lifestyle audits” will be carried out on all senior staff in her department, in a bid to

  • Posted August 1, 2019
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  Maltese audit office strategy aims to improve impact

  Malta’s audit office has launched a five-year strategy designed to improve its operations and boost its impact, enabling it to better “fulfil its role as the guardian of the public

  • Posted November 11, 2018
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  Should we put our trust in blockchain?

  Blockchains could validate people’s rights – but, misused, they could as easily steal them. David Whitehouse finds that building trust will be key to realising the technology’s potential Blockchain has

  • Posted November 6, 2018
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  Third of civil servants struggling to justify wealth in corruption probe

  Around 30% of Kenyan civil servants have been unable to explain the source of their wealth in an audit ordered by the government. The figure was revealed by head of

  • Posted August 22, 2018
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