Tag: digital transformation office

OpenOpp tracks gov’t SME progress

Posted on   |  by James Riley
As digital transformation investments reshape the way Australian governments deliver services to the public, it is also changing the way these governments engage with the tech industry and with...

Privacy lobby digs trench, sets gun

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
An Australia Card scale row is brewing between the government and the Australian Privacy Foundation over the proposed national digital identity regime. The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), which was...

NSW joins new identity model

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The NSW Government has signed up to the Commonwealth’s federated model for digital identity even before detail of the new scheme has been made public, or even been put...

The DTO’s giant revolving door

Posted on   |  by James Riley
To the casual observer, the Digital Transformation Office looks like it has become a high-powered revolving door. Lots of people, lots of churn. The latest senior appointment is former Treasury...

Biometric identity: Please explain

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A digital identity platform is absolutely essential if the government’s grand vision of streamlined, digital-delivered services is ever to be fully realised. But it needs to be properly explained,...

Cultural cringe is killing SME tech

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Office’s newly-launched Digital Marketplace creates a mechanism for government to buy more local technology, but some baked-in attitudes about tech vendors may also need to be...

Marketplace is a first step reform

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Government has taken a major step forward on its road to reforming procurement practices with the launch this week of a new Digital Marketplace for buyers and...

Greg Hunt rings in policy changes

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Greg Hunt has revealed much in the past week about how he intends to run the industry portfolio, opting to taking on more direct charge of the breadth of...

Census the canary in the coalmine

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The 2016 Census and its steaming #CensusFail epitaph may yet prove useful to government. This shocking failure of public administration is the canary in the coal mine, the emergency...