Tag: DTA

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...

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...

Govt accredits first private digital ID provider

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The first private company has received accreditation from the federal government as a digital identity provider, with legislation facilitating a significant expansion of the digital ID program set to...

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...

COVIDSafe report missing the one thing that matters

Posted on   |  by catherine@innovationaus.com
Like the villain in a bad horror movie, COVIDSafe refuses to die. It has been a staggering fall from grace for the contact tracing app, heralded as the “ticket”...