Information in Society Platform

Information in Society Platform

Research enabling society to shape, harness, and adapt to the stream of disruptions caused by new data streams and information technologies every day.

The Information in Society Platform is RMIT’s Platform for interdisciplinary research innovation connected with data, information, automation in society. The explosion in new information and communication technologies, sensors and data streams, data analytics and artificial intelligence present new challenges and opportunities to society every day. The Platform connects world-leading, transdisciplinary research and researchers with governments, businesses, and citizens in responding to challenges and opportunities that rapid change brings.

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Our Vision

Professor Matt Duckham
Director, RMIT Information in Society Platform

We are working with government, industry, and citizens to meet the opportunities and challenges that arise from the explosion of new information technologies and data streams, always looking to the next wave of change. 

Read about Matt's research

Creating impact

Read some examples of the Information in Society Platform’s collaborative research projects.

Feature project | Key skills sought by employers following the global pandemic
RMIT researchers from the Enabling Impact Platforms and STEM College, in collaboration with our partners, explored how the pandemic has influenced the skills sought by employers, and developed several recommendations for universities to consider.
Learn more about Key Skills project
Safety4Rails
In 2020, RMIT University’s CAMS (A Central Asset Management System with a Data-Driven Flare), became a partner in a multi-million dollar European project on rail cybersecurity research known as Data-based analysis for SAFETY and security protection FOR detection, prevention, mitigation and response in trans-modal metro and RAILway networkS (SAFETY4RAILS).
Read SAFETY4RAILS case study
Zero Emission Mobility
RMIT University researchers from the School of Engineering are collaborating with the iMOVE CRC and the Centre for New Energy Technologies (C4NET) on the project, “Spatio-temporal analysis of charging requirements for Victoria's Electric Bus Fleet”.
Read Zero Emission Mobility
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White Paper | Frequency Control within Australia's National Electricity Market

Taking advantage of Australia’s energy market undergoing transition, RMIT researchers deliver major impact with their suggested rule changes implemented by the Australian Energy Market Commission.

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White Paper | Integration of Electric Buses into the Power Grid: Challenges and Opportunities

This White Paper discusses five key messages that include working with various stakeholders that have an effective governance structure and ensuring maximum clean energy saving using flexibility of the bus operation.

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White Paper | Electrifying the Future of Urban Mobility

Recommendations for bus electrification in Australia are highlighted in this White Paper.

Research and innovation priorities

Sensing the world
Harnessing for society new information about the world from new digital sensors, telecommunications, networks and technologies, including from research into:

  • Sensing, positioning, imaging and space-based data gathering technologies; 

  • Communication via radio frequency, microwave, wireless, optical, mobile and satellites;

  • Data streams at every scale, from earth observation, city scale, to human scale and beyond;

  • Digital signal and image processing.  
Making sense of the world 

Improving society’s ability to exploit data for good, using analytics, automation and artificial intelligence, including from research into: 

  • Control and operation of complex cyber-physical systems; 

  • Energy modelling and analytics; 

  • Autonomous systems and safety;

  • Ethical use and impacts of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence in society. 
Securing our world
Safeguarding the information and digital technologies in our society through critical digital technologies and cyber security, including from research into:

  • Privacy and detecting intrusion;

  • High performance computing; 

  • Critical quantum digital technologies; 

  • Public policy for critical infrastructure and cyber security.
Informing actions in the world
Supporting evidence-based decision-making and informed actions in society with big data and interactive digital technologies, including research into: 

  • Big data storage, retrieval, and analysis;

  • Digital twins, simulation, and prediction; 

  • Big data visualisation and insight;

  • Innovative and wearable interfaces and information design.

Aligned networks and centres

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

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