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• Father of internet Vint Cerf worried about your old Facebook pics, talking with aliens

  When Vint Cerf was invited to join Google in 2005 he was asked what job title he wanted.

• Say bonjour to Australia’s newest coding bootcamp

  A coding school founded in Paris in 2013 and now in operation in 27 cities around the world is launching bootcamps in Sydney and Melbourne.

• GovHack a hit in every state and territory

  Australia’s biggest hackathon event – GovHack – which took place over the weekend, has resulted in the submission of 379 projects from a Facebook bingo game that helps reduce littering to a chat bot that delivers live parliamentary proceedings and allows users to react to vote results.

• The rise of Silicon Valley-style coding bootcamps promises cure for skills crisis

  ​Australian businesses need employees with coding skills yesterday. Every sector is searching for suitable candidates and the traditional pipelines are running dry.

• Girl Geek Academy aims to ‘break down’ barriers and teach girls to code

  Australia’s Girl Geek Academy is rolling out the next phase of its coding curriculum targeting girls aged five to eight, kicking it off with an event in Sydney tomorrow to coincide with International Girls in ICT Day, an awareness day dedicated to encouraging girls to consider careers in IT.

• Aussie innovator, Solange Cunin, brings space down into the classroom

  A self-confessed space geek, Cuberider co-founder and CEO, Solange Cunin, has achieved at 23 what most can only dream of. Not only has she helped launch the first Australian rocket mission to the International Space Station (ISS), but she is changing the mindset of kids on the ground, helping them do real-life space missions.

• ​Every girl should learn to code

  Learning to code was the best career move I ever made. Fast forward 25 years and I am fortunate enough to be one of the few female CIOs in Australia.

• Sputnik automates code review for Java projects on GitHub

  It isn't just offered as a service, either; the open source underpinnings can be downloaded and deployed, and integration with other code hosting services is on the roadmap

• ​1984 was the year everything changed for women in IT: Lynwen Connick

  Women began dropping out of ICT roles in 1984, the same year personal computers were on the rise, according to Lynwen Connick, First Assistant Secretary - Cyber Policy and Intelligence Division, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

• NSW Parliament takes part in Innovation Bootcamp

  New South Wales ministers and legislative council members were today invited to attend an innovation boot camp in Sydney, exposing them to the fundamentals of coding, robotics and entrepreneurial thinking demonstrated by NSW students.

• In Pictures: The weirdest, wackiest and coolest sci/tech stories

  We’re talking Pluto, Earth 2.0, Brain algorithms, software coding and tons more.

• TeleXHealth wins Australia’s Hack Aging Hackathon

  A solution that let's people manage their health from the surrounds of their own home without the need for trips to the doctor has won the Hack Aging Hackathon.

• Building ICT skills ‘can’t wait until 2017’: ACS

  The Australian Computing Society (ACS) has welcomed Labor’s promise to introduce initiatives to strengthen Australia’s digital cohort and close the IT skills gap, but cautioned these actions “simply can’t wait until 2017”.

• 7000 students learn coding with Microsoft campaign

  This week saw more than 7000 school students from all over Australia learn computer coding as part of the #WeSpeakCode campaign, led by Microsoft.

• Innovative leadership: How to claim digital victory

  Steve Jobs once said that innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. By this standard, Australia is full of followers, all in desperate need of leadership. In the second of a three-part series, this article discusses how leaders can drive true digital transformation.