Yesterday - I was at the Spring Cycle 🚴♂️ - it was such a great event ✅ - see comments for details ...
However, there are so many events that happen, like the Granny Smith Festival (held on Saturday) - that are hard to keep track of or sometimes we miss altogether 🤦🏻♂️
We live in a state with so many different events - like our New Year’s Eve fireworks, Carols in the Domain, Vivid, Mardi Gras, City2Surf, Royal Easter Show, Parkes Elvis Festival, Griffith Salami Festival (Festa delle Salsicce), Broken Hill’s “Broken Heel” Festival, to name a few
And on weekends, there are many more events hosted by local councils and community groups - such as markets or outdoor cinemas - that we simply don’t know about or miss out on 🤷🏻♂️
Given that businesses need to engage with Govt for the purposes of regulation - why wouldn’t we create a NSW EVENTS REGISTER 🤔
This would allow councils, community groups and businesses to upload details of events happening nearby.
It could be the - single source of truth - for events 🏆
You could then opt-in via your @ServiceNSW app to be notified of events that are near and/or of interest to you.
Importantly - it would be open data - so that the information could be used by others in specific apps and maps ➡️ data.nsw.gov.au
It’s an idea that people in the LinkedIn community have shared with me - that I personally think has great merit 🙏🙏
1. Firstly I am sorry it has taken several days to reach this landing. People are understandably stressed and need a pathway forward.
2. I can confirm Optus will contact customers in coming days to confirm whether or not they need to apply for a replacement driver licence.
3. People in NSW with a digital driver licence will have an interim card number issued instantaneously via the Service NSW app. A new plastic licence card will be issued within 10 business days. Information can be found here: service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/re…
When we hand over copies of our driver's licence - we “over-share” personal information that could potentially compromise our security - see previous post ➡️ linkedin.com/posts/victordo…
Recently @Optus informed the Australian public of a major cyber-attack.
Optus is conducting a forensic analysis to understand the exact number of customers affected - and the type of information that has been compromised in each case.
Behind the scenes the @NSWCustomer, @TransportforNSW, Cyber Security NSW, ID Support and Registry of Births Death and Marriages - are working with Optus to make the process of re-issuing of NSW identity documents as seamless as possible.