Tag: DTA

Govt digital ID system a ‘house of cards’

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government’s push for an economy wide digital identity system will leave it on the “wrong side of history”, an identity and data protection expert has warned, as...

DTA loses APS digital professions program

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Responsibility for the program aimed to improve the digital capability of the Australian Public Service has been shifted from the Digital Transformation Agency, as a significant restructuring at the...

Falling short on sovereign capability advice

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has called on government to establish a ‘Made in Australia’ Office to assess domestic capability gaps in the information technology supply chain. But...

‘Urgent’ investment in APS tech staff needed

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The federal government must make an “urgent investment” in Australian public service staff to avoid any more government technology “failures” like robodebt, COVIDSafe and the 2016 census outage, a...

Accenture paid $2.5m per month for digital ID work

Posted on   |  by catherine@innovationaus.com
The federal government is paying American tech giant Accenture nearly $2.5 million per month for work on its digital identity service. At the start of the year, the Australian...

COVIDSafe hasn’t found any contacts this year

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app has not found any new contacts this year and has still identified just 17 people in total, with the agency behind it...

More contractors than staff in govt IT roles

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
There are more temporary contract workers involved in government technology projects than full-time Australian Public Service staff, with some large agencies using more than four times as many tech...

DTA hands KPMG $850,000 for two month job

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Digital Transformation Agency has handed consulting giant KPMG a $850,000 contract running for just two months, with the agency declining to explain the details of this work. Tender...

‘Large reduction’ in DTA funding and responsibilities

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
There has been a “large reduction” in the Digital Transformation Agency’s funding and responsibilities, with a number of its key projects moved to other agencies, its chief executive Randall...