Tag: Digital Transformation Agency

New Digital Transformation Agency CEO appointed

Posted on   |  by catherine@innovationaus.com
Christopher Fechner has been appointed to lead the Digital Transformation Agency, as the office undergoes a significant restructuring and refocus. Employment Minister Stuart Robert announced on Wednesday that Mr...

DTA offloads COVIDSafe, other projects in shake-up

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Digital Transformation Agency has confirmed it will move several high value technology projects to other agencies, including management of the controversial COVIDSafe app, as part of sweeping machinery...

Accenture gets $50m for digital identity work

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government will pay Accenture more than $3 million per month across the next year to work on its digital identity scheme, with the Irish multinational scoring a...

DTA ditches digital ‘transparency’ dashboard

Posted on   |  by catherine@innovationaus.com
The federal government has shut down its Performance Dashboard, used to improve digital services and provide transparency to the public, as part of a significant restructuring of its digital...

Devs go it alone after DTA ditches design system

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australian developers have been forced to go it alone to keep the government design system running after it was abruptly ditched by the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) this month,...

Technology lessons of COVIDSafe must be learned

Posted on   |  by Dr Lesley Seebeck
OPINION: As the government turns its thinking to a vaccination passport or similar, it would do well to learn some of the lessons from COVIDSafe. COVIDSafe illustrates the need...

The DTA is missing in action, adrift

Posted on   |  by Marie Johnson
Now before people @me, I have long advocated for a far-reaching agenda for a ‘digital transformation’ institution. More on that shortly, but we are way off track. Even at...

Govt hands Microsoft digital health contract

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Microsoft has won a new contract with the Digital Health Agency following a closed tender process thanks to its whole-of-government sourcing agreement. The contract, posted publicly this week and...