Tag: AGIMO

Tanner and Steward report on Gershon implementation

by Staff Writers, Mon 23 March 2009

Last Thursday, Minister for Finance and Deregulation, the Hon Lindsay Tanner addressed the Australian Computer Society’s Canberra Conference, and on the same day AGIMO’s Ann Steward spoke to the Canberra Branch of the Institute of Public Administration. Both provided some useful updates on implementation of the recommendations of the Gershon Report...

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CeBIT to explore Australia’s future digital economy

by Staff Writers, Mon 27 April 2009

Following the announcement of the Federal Government's new $43 billion National Broadand Network (NBN), CeBIT Australia 2009’s Global Conference Series will put the country’s future broadband infrastructure under the microscope.

CeBIT Australia’s three communications and government-oriented Global Conferences – Access, AusInnovate and e-Government Forum – will all focus on the nation’s future broadband infrastructure...

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Government goes to market to meet immediate data centre requirements

by Staff Writers, Mon 1 June 2009

Last Thursday, AGIMO issued an expression of interest (EOI) for a whole of government “panel for the provision of immediate and interim data centre facilities”. So what does this new panel mean for agencies and vendors?

In his report to Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner last year, Sir Peter Gershon issued a blunt warning, that a whole of government data centre strategy was urgently needed...

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Ongoing challenge to AGIMO to find all Gershon’s estimated savings

by Staff Writers, Mon 13 July 2009

AGIMO has an ongoing challenge in dealing with the Gershon Report recommendations in that while the estimated savings have been announced, they have not yet all been identified. The inability to identify all estimated savings also explains why there has been some debate as to whether or not there are to be more cuts to business-as-usual (BAU) budgets this year...

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AGIMO on path to Gershon success

by Staff Writers, Mon 17 August 2009

August 28 will mark the 1^st anniversary of the tabling of Sir Peter Gershon’s report into Federal Government ICT. With a significant change agenda, Gershon presented many challenges for government to deliver.

Sir Peter Gershon’s report into Federal Government ICT was not a happy one. His cover letter to Minister Tanner concluded:
“Not withstanding the work undertaken to date, the current model of weak governance of ICT ....

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Optimisation of ICT panels

by Staff Writers, Mon 24 August 2009

The last two years have seen significant attention directed at improvements to government contract management. Developments have included:...

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Contract to alleviate Centrelink data centre capacity

by Staff Writers, Mon 24 August 2009

One of the agencies known to be running critically short of data centre capacity has awarded a significant new contract.

Centrelink has awarded a contract to Canberra Data Centres (CDC) for the lease of its Hume site. The two year <A href="https://www.tenders.gov.au...

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ICT is now core to the delivery of government services

by Staff Writers, Mon 31 August 2009

Reflecting on 200 issues of the medium, Intermedium’s Head of Research Tim Conway concludes that government itself probably still doesn’t recognise how central ICT has become to the delivery of government services.

There’s the (now old) metaphor that internet years are like dog years, moving at seven to eight times that of an earth year. If that’s so, then the medium has spanned more than thirty such ‘years’...