Jurisdiction: VIC

The UK Government has announced a new whole-of-government ICT strategy to provide “a standardised, flexible and efficient ICT infrastructure to enable delivery of these individual business objectives” and signaling ICT procurement reform over the next ten years...

Victorian Government agencies are bracing themselves for smaller budgets, with the “allocation of funding to the relief and rebuilding effort” of the Victorian bushfires well underway.

This was the finding from roundtables staged by Government News in Melbourne and Perth, with delegates representing government agencies and statutory authorities concerned with IT spending.

Delegates reported that the bushfire relief efforts will have a prolonged impact on business. As one delegate commented, “the bushfires will exacerbate the already stretched Victorian economy...

ICT projects worth more than $900 million were announced in the State budget handed down by Victorian treasurer John Lenders on 5 May.

This includes major ICT projects in Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE).

In addition, Intermedium expects up to $100 million in non-specific ICT spending within other named projects, including additional funding for project in Human Services and Emergency Services...

The Department of Treasury and Finance and CenITex (Centre for IT Excellence) ICT Shared Services Agency conducted two briefing sessions for the ICT industry on the Victorian Government’s Efficient Technology Services program on 7 & 22 June 2009.

As we come up to the first anniversary of the formation of the Victorian Governments CenITex many might be wondering just how much the program means to the ICT industry in Victoria...