Police Update Radios to Stop Eavesdroppers

from The New Zealand Herald (05/21/09)

Police are rejigging their radio communications to prevent them being snooped on by criminals, boy racers, and anyone else with a $175 scanner.
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Australia's Economic Stimulus Creates National Broadband Infrastructure

from Government Technology (06/15/09) Basu, Indrajit

When Australia finally announced its long-awaited and much debated superfast National Broadband Network (NBN) on April 7, it wasn't really big news. Neither was Prime Minister Kevin Rudd describing it as the biggest infrastructure project in the country's history. The big news was that Australia is the only government in the world that has a multibillion-dollar economic stimulus package centered on the creation of broadband infrastructure.
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APCO Brings Public Safety to the Middle East

The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International announced today that its training arm is reaching to Saudi Arabia in an effort to help secure a local university. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has accepted the APCO Institute's proposal to provide an all-inclusive training program for communications personnel in their new communications center.
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