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We're re-imagining regulation as an open platform based on digital logic to help support a growing ecosystem of digital regulation tools and services.

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Data61 is focusing on systems with increased trust and resilience in a world with increasing penetration of digital systems

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29 Aug 2018

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New blockchain-based smart legal contracts for Australian businesses

CSIRO’s Data61 has formed a consortium with law firm Herbert Smith Freehills and IBM to build Australia’s first cross-industry, large-scale, digital platform to enable Australian businesses to collaborate using blockchain-based smart legal contracts.

29 Aug 2018

The innovation imperative – predicting Queensland’s digital future

A report from CSIRO’s Data61 examines the risks and opportunities for Queensland over the next two decades, a period of expected rapid change fuelled by technological disruption and other social and economic driving forces, and identifies the pathways to best position the State for the future.

15 Aug 2018

Discovery casts dark shadow on computer security

Two international teams of security researchers have uncovered Foreshadow, a new variant of the hardware vulnerability Meltdown announced earlier in the year, that can be exploited to bypass Intel Processors' secure regions to access memory and data.

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