The pace of change in digital technology, its complexity, the breadth of its potential impacts and the challenge of designing effective regulation after the fact, all make the stewardship of emerging technologies challenging.

Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, has outlined an ambition for Australia to be a leading digital nation. The federal government backed this ambition in the recent budget with a series of initiatives in its Digital Economy Strategy. In this paper, CEDA propose two solutions to achieve this aim.

Australia can no longer afford to be a follower in the digital and technology sphere. In this paper on public interest technology priorities for government, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia shows how appointing a Chief Technologist and committing to transparent and independent technology assessments could help Australia become a leading digital nation.