Tag: DTA

Microsoft’s whole of government deal passes $800m

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Microsoft’s whole-of-government sourcing deal has swelled to more than $800 million, including more than doubling in the last two months, despite the US giant not yet receiving the newest...

Deloitte’s slice of sovereignty scheme clouded in mystery

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The agency administering Australia’s data sovereignty scheme won’t say when it became aware of a foreign company’s plan to acquire Canberra-based cloud provider Sliced Tech or whether the acquisition...

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 Denham Sadler
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...