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DTO considers an Aussie G-Cloud

Australian Government ICT procurement is set to undergo its most radical overhaul since the 2008 Gershon Review of public sector tech spending and may include an Aussie version of...

Turnbull moves digital to PM&C

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has made good on his promise of putting innovation at the heart of his economic narrative, moving key chunks of government’s digital framework into Department...

Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The swearing in of Malcolm Turnbull as Australia’s 29th Prime Minister will inevitably bring the powerful technological forces that are re-shaping our economy into sharper focus. This was one...

DTO sets up in grungy Ultimo

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australia’s shiny new Digital Transformation Office is getting down and dirty in the hipster heartland. The nation’s newest agency is to set up shop inside a bunker-style co-location workspace...

Xero on data driven public policy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Kiwi-based cloud accounting wunderkind Xero says aggregated private sector cloud data can be used to help government make better decisions across the economy, and to implement policy changes faster....

Five lessons from #TechInGovAU

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The ninth annual ‘Technology in Government’ conference and exhibition has closed its doors in Canberra for another year after two days of deliberations that focused on the key themes...

Digital: Don’t be cheap, be smart

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The change agents within the UK’s Government Digital Service have so far reduced the British Government’s £16 billion annual technology spend by £1 billion since the agency was established...

Turnbull: Digital power of example

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The Deloitte Access Economics report on Digital government transformation launched yesterday by Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull paints a very big picture, populated by very big numbers. The headline take-outs...

Govt locks out digital innovators

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian Government procurement practices designed to de-risk technology projects are having the opposite effect, creating large, complex programs that carry more risk and discourage the participation of smaller innovators,...

Tech procurement is a bit of a mess

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is hard to find anyone selling into the Australian Government who has anything good to say about its procurement practices in relation to information technology. Even those on...