Tag: Digital Transformation Agency

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Feds’ massive new photo ID plan

The Attorney General’s Department plans to add as many as 12 million passport photographs to its Face Verification Service this year – one issue prompting calls for a Biometric...

Local, State, Fed digital delivery

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Commonwealth will unveil the ‘live’ pilot of a digital service that lets users complete end-to-end approvals transactions across all three levels of government through a single portal for...

New DTA to link with Data61

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Newly-appointed Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Gavin Slater – an ex-banker from Melbourne – will be spending plenty of time in airports in the coming months as the governments...

Identity remains the digital key

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Government’s GovPass digital identity system will be firmly opt-in – citizens who don’t wish to use the streamlined platform and its biometric component won’t have to. According to...

Labor calls for gov’t tech review

Posted on   |  by James Riley
On digital transformation in government, bipartisanship has left the building. The Federal Opposition is calling for an independent, arms-length review of the government digital transformation efforts and its growing...

Public sector ICT is raining money

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It’s Christmas come early if you are a technology supplier to the Australian Government, with spending on ICT increasing by 50 per cent to $9 billion in the last...

Biometrics back on DTA agenda

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Federal Government is running a private beta of its digital identity platform ahead of a planned public test early next year. To use the service, people will need...

Thodey review of PM&C queried

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Husic has called for the public release of a little-known review of federal government digital transformation efforts that ultimately led to the radical restructure of...

DTA grilling: What we learned

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Malcolm Turnbull’s pet project, the Digital Transformation Agency, was put under intense scrutiny at the Senate Estimates last week, with revelations the organisation no longer sees itself as a...

An own goal on digital progress

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government has formally tried to congratulate itself in the Parliament on its digital transformation of services in a sign of either “irony or grand self-delusion,” according to the...