Tag: Angus Taylor

Tech spending has a new regime

Posted on   |  by James Riley
While Australian voters are unlikely to build statues to honour the architects of Commonwealth ICT procurement reform, it is incredibly important nonetheless. The potential upside is tremendous on three...

$650m boost for local tech: Taylor

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Government will today unveil a raft of technology procurement reforms that aim to drive an additional $650 million in Commonwealth spending to small Australian companies each year. Under new...

Senate investigates tech failures

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Senate on Thursday agreed to hold an inquiry into the government’s digital transformation program, with a focus on increased ICT spending and the embarrassing series of technology failures...

DTA cranks digital skills program

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency will recruit and place 250 new entry-level digital staff across federal departments and agencies over the next year as part of a drive to improve...

myGov gets an ugly report card

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Commonwealth’s myGov platform has been “largely effective,” despite ballooning costs and an inability to bring new government services onto the platform, an audit report has found. The Australian...

Martin O’Malley on cities and data

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Martin O’Malley is a former Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of the US state of Maryland. He was also a candidate in the 2016 presidential nomination race for the...

Taylor’s data sharing taskforce

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
The federal government has formed a taskforce to wrangle its response to the Productivity Commission’s report on data use which will investigate privacy settings and whether we are getting...

Govt to spend $131m on analytics

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will invest nearly $131 million to create a cross-portfolio data platform to bring together disparate data in order to analyse the long-term effectiveness of public policy. The...

Govt ICT spend in Labor sights

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Federal Labor would continue to press for an independent review of multi-billion dollar increases in Commonwealth spending on information technology, and have held open the prospect of a Senate...