Science
Broad subject area
Technical report
NEMLink: augmenting the Australian National Electricity Market transmission grid to facilitate increased wind turbine generation and its effect on wholesale spot prices
This report compares the effect of increasing the number of wind turbine generators on wholesale spot prices in the Australian National Electricity Market’s (NEM) under the existing transmission grid and an augmented version of the transmission grid called NEMLink.
Discussion paper
Outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society
Seventieth session, agenda item 17 Information and communications technologies for development The General Assembly adopts the following outcome document of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the overall review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society at its seventieth session: Outcome document of the high-level meeting...
Strategy
New Zealand's cyber security strategy 2015
The Internet and other information technologies have transformed the way New Zealanders live. Connectivity is an integral part of New Zealand’s economic growth and international competitiveness. Ninety percent of New Zealand households and 96 percent of businesses now have an Internet connection. New Zealanders rely heavily on the Internet for work, play and everyday life...
Article
Growing the social life of soil
Combined with the issue of the deepening drought in many regions, the time has clearly come to think seriously about the dirt we live on and off.
Policy
Australian Government public data policy statement
As part of the National Innovation and Science Agenda, the Australian Government has today released its Public Data Policy Statement. This formalises the Government’s commitment to open data and data-driven innovation. Access to and use of the data that is collected by Commonwealth Government entities, referred to as ‘public data’, has the potential to stimulate...