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UK Government launches new ICT strategy

by Staff Writers, Tue 2 February 2010

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...

IBM chosen to help the Defence Department achieve White Paper ICT goals

by Staff Writers, Mon 15 June 2009

IBM has won the competitive tender to help facilitate the consolidation and standardisation of Defence ICT infrastructure.

The tender, released over a year ago was fragmented into a series of procurement sectors.

The two year agreement which has an option to extend for four more years centres on a collaborative effort to achieve more time, cost and operations efficient IT services; a goal set out in the Defence White Paper "Defending Australia in the Asia Pacific Century: Force 2030"...

Web 2.0 and Government –the biggest challenge of all?

by Staff Writers, Mon 13 July 2009

The launch of the Government 2.0 Taskforce by Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner on 22 June 2009 has the potential to profoundly affect the management of information by, and within, government. 

It is likely to do this to a greater degree than any other recent initiative because virtually every interaction between a government agency and its various stakeholders ( and most particularly its citizens), has the potential to be impacted by Web 2.0. [read more]...

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’...

NSW ICT procurement reforms one step further to completion

by Staff Writers, Mon 7 December 2009

The emergent strategy for one of the final elements of the NSW Government’s ICT procurement platform was revealed with the release of its Request for Information (RFI) for Enterprise Software Solutions on Thursday 26 November.

Reforms to ICT procurement over the last two years or so have seen new arrangements in place for:...

Data security the central concern separating private and public cloud

by Andrew Starc, Tue 31 August 2010

A move to embrace cloud computing by public sector ICT will see agencies facing issues of information security, data ownership and system flexibility according to a...

Free Former OSR CIO moves to Communities NSW

by Paris Cowan, Fri 5 November 2010

David Kennedy, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) at the NSW Office of State Revenue (OSR) will commence in the role of CIO at...

Queensland seeks whole-of-government contract lifecycle management solution

by Aleks Vickovich, Mon 15 November 2010

The Queensland Chief Procurement Office (QCPO) within the Department of Public Works plans to establish a whole-of-government...

US mandates cloud computing for Government, what implications for Australia?

by Paris Cowan, Fri 26 November 2010

Earlier this month, the United States Government Office of Budget and Management announced the ‘Cloud First’ policy which requires that all...

DHS ICT consolidation plans made public

by Paris Cowan, Mon 6 December 2010

Last week the Federal Department of Human Services (DHS) took an important initial step toward the goal of achieving full portfolio integration, with the release of...


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