Tag: Angus Taylor

New detail on ICT procurement

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Updated: Angus Taylor has outlined new details of the Commonwealth’s overhaul of its $5.6 billion annual ICT spend and committed to publishing a discussion paper on the changes from the...

Taylor’s strategic ICT taskforce

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The changes wrought by Angus Taylor’s next phase in the Australian Government’s digital agenda marks the biggest overhaul in the Commonwealth’s information technology program in 20 years The next three...

Open Opportunity: a new beginning

Posted on   |  by Margaret Lim
Last week’s announcement of the new Digital Transformation Agency reveals a sense of urgency and ambition on the part of Prime Minister Turnbull to drive better digital service delivery...

Taylor launches tech super agency

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Turnbull Government has shredded its 15-month-old Plan A for digital service delivery, with a dramatic restructuring of the Digital Transformation Office into a new tech super-agency that has...

DTA a rose by any other name

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his McKinsey-trained mate Angus Taylor want to bring order and alacrity to the ever fraught world of government IT projects as the game shifts...

Launceston gets a City Deal

Posted on   |  by Margaret Lim
Launceston in northern Tasmania has been announced as the home of the Turnbull government’s second ‘City Deal’. The first, announced before the recent election, was Townsville. Western Sydney has...

Small biz: Disrupt or be disrupted

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Down in the small business trenches these days the word is not so much ‘eat or be eaten’ as ‘disrupt or be disrupted’. Buzz phrase niceties aside, the effects...

DTO slows national identity plan

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has applied the brakes to its national identity framework plans. In a letter sent to the 70-odd organisations that replied to its Request for...

Taylor charts new digital direction

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Prime Minister’s point-man on digital government Angus Taylor will today unveil a re-engineering of the Digital Transformation Agenda – one of Malcolm Turnbull’s signature policies – that will...