After more than twenty years of ‘citizen centric’ strategies by governments around the world, this week saw the demolition in Australia of any pretence of citizen-centric, participant-centric, person-centric –...
Public Sector
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The National Archives of Australia (NAA) has been in the news lately. It desperately needs many millions of dollars to digitise Australia’s decaying historical records, particularly those on film...
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The Morrison government’s second pandemic budget contained plenty of red meat for the tech industry through its $1.2 billion digital economy strategy initiatives. But despite this focus, the Digital...
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Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has rightly connected the government’s big investment into its digital economy strategy to its program of economic recovery. But it is a lost opportunity if the...
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Australian organisations are increasingly adopting formal information governance frameworks to maximise the value of data while minimising associated risks and costs, an industry survey has found. Government organisations reported...
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Scandal-plagued NSW state insurer icare used an unreasonably short tender process as part of an “opaque” procurement for its $260 million insurance platform, according to a damning review which...
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The NSW government is using drones to survey and 3D map flood affected areas in the state, in a bid to reopen several sections of road which have been...
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Global technology companies are listing themselves as small to medium enterprises (SMEs) on the NSW government’s tech procurement platform, raising concerns they may be able to take advantage of...
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Google will base its Australian public sector cloud team at Adelaide’s innovation precinct Lot Fourteen, joining AWS and Accenture in committing to offices in the city in recent months....
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The government’s back-to-the-future decision to move the Digital Transformation Agency into the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet is a good outcome for the sector and for progress in...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has been returned to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet less than two years after being moved to the Social Services portfolio, but the...
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Australia is racing into the next decades of the digital era wilfully blind and ill-prepared as to the impact of algorithms on its citizens. I say wilfully blind because...
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There is a significant lack of transparency around the unprecedented jump in government IT investment, with ongoing delays to an “urgent” internal audit and a year long freeze of...
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The National Archives of Australia is struggling to maintain cyber resilience as the agency battles budget and staff cuts that are also putting important records at risk and slowing...