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In other public-sector ICT news this week...

paris.cowan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:40:19 +0000

Defence Chief Information Officer Greg Farr has received a Public Service Medal on Australia Day, in recognition of the comprehensive reforms he has introduced to the...

Queensland Education Department to rationalise applications

paris.cowan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:49:03 +0000

The Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) plans to cut the number of applications in use across the 60,000 person organisation, in order to free up...

What ICT policies will Newman’s LNP take to the Queensland Election?

paris.cowan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:02:25 +0000

With 24 March 2012 locked in as the date of the next Queensland Parliamentary Election, the ICT industry will be paying extra attention to what the main parties...

QLD Department of Education moves towards an independent SAP system

David Shi — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:51:41 +0000

The Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) will take a significant step to solidify the independence of its ICT infrastructure, approaching the...

In other public-sector ICT news this week...

paris.cowan — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:46:00 +0000

Special Minister for State, Gary Gray, has released a report showing that 47 per cent of Australians opted to access government services online in 2011, in instances...

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David Shi — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:59:39 +0000

The Australian National Audit Office has released a report on the oversight and management of Defence ICT. The performance audit found Defence has made modest progress in implementing ICT reform, however...

Brisbane City Council outlines $77 million ICT agenda

David Shi — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:51:08 +0000

With an ICT project budget worth more than $77 million in 2011-12, the Brisbane City Council is looking to technology to help it meet its key objectives, such as...

Queensland Health corporate services to be transformed...again

paris.cowan — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:07:09 +0000

Queensland Health’s corporate services functions could be forgiven for feeling a bit unwanted of late...

Queensland to establish whole-of-government IT services panel

paris.cowan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 05:06:46 +0000

The Queensland Government Chief Procurement Office (QGCPO) hopes to go to the market to establish a whole-of-government eServices Panel for the State as early as...

Six months on, reshuffled shared services arrangements still face trouble in Queensland

paris.cowan — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:21:16 +0000

Nearly six months after the Queensland Government’s centralised shared services arrangement was split into three, the State’s outgoing Auditor-General says that...

In other public-sector ICT news this week…

paris.cowan — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 03:26:14 +0000

The Secretaries Information Governance Board (SIGB) has endorsed the draft ICT Strategic Vision released by AGIMO earlier this year, which means it will move on to...

In other public-sector ICT news this week…

paris.cowan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:27:01 +0000

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has withdrawn plans to upgrade its PeopleSoft software suite in Quarter Three of 2011-12, according...

In other public-sector ICT news this week…

paris.cowan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:18:33 +0000

Data #3 has said that in its first year as the Federal Government’s Microsoft Large Account Reseller, the contract generated around...

Queensland Department of Communities describes its ideal ICT supplier

paris.cowan — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:12:14 +0000

The Queensland Department of Communities says that its ideal ICT supplier is experienced in the human services sector, is aligned with the current enterprise...

Queensland achieves small panel savings and data centre migration in 2010-11

paris.cowan — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:28:44 +0000

The Queensland Department of Public Works (DPW) has achieved relatively small savings through its whole-of-government ICT procurement program in 2010-11,...

Queensland Building Services Authority seeks new CIO

paris.cowan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:00:18 +0000

Change is the order of the day at Queensland’s Building Services Authority (BSA), with the agency this week fielding applications for a new Chief Information Officer and...

IT team wanted for component of $700 million+ Smart Classrooms program

paris.cowan — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:06:29 +0000

ICT suppliers have an opportunity to get a foot in the door of the Queensland Department of Education and Training’s (DET’s) Smart Classrooms program, which has...

Dell wins $13 million contract to supply laptops to Queensland teachers

paris.cowan — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:29:05 +0000

As part of the state’s Computers for Teachers Program, Dell Australia has been awarded a $13.4 million contract to provide 14,000 laptop computers to...

Queensland Education Department opens the pages of its ICT intentions

paris.cowan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:32:16 +0000

The Queensland Department of Education and Training (DET) has offered suppliers a comprehensive insight into the ICT side of its $8.7 billion operation,...

Queensland Rail to outsource its ICT

paris.cowan — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:38:06 +0000

Queensland’s largest government-owned corporation, Queensland Rail (QR), has released a major approach to market seeking a...

Queensland Roads Department plans for state-wide ERP update

paris.cowan — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 04:52:43 +0000

Chris Fechner, Chief Information Officer at Queensland’s Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) has told ICT industry members...

Floods Inquiry interim report calls for more social media use

paris.cowan — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:17:38 +0000

Making better use of SMS warning systems and social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter is essential to ensuring...

The ebb and flow of the GCIO: Former Government CIOs share their views

paris.cowan — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:28:27 +0000

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh’s announcement last week that her Government will be enhancing the state’s CIO role goes against a trend observed across the...

Queensland Government edges closer to end-to-end e-procurement

paris.cowan — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:18:50 +0000

Procurement processes across the Queensland Government are set to become electronically transformed, with the Department of Public Works (DPW)...

Queensland to streamline service delivery with QGov Online

paris.cowan — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:13:30 +0000

The Queensland Government is currently working on a single online entry point that will aggregate its most popular online services in a way that reflects a customer’s...

Tracking devices compete to win offender monitoring contract

paris.cowan — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 04:21:17 +0000

Known sex offenders living amongst the Queensland community will soon be monitored using GPS tracking technology, and the state government is asking vendors...

Efficient and cost-sensitive ICT on the agenda for Queensland in 2011

khammond — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:39:48 +0000

The Queensland Government will focus on delivering cost-effective and efficient services through four key ICT initiatives in 2011, according to the Department of Public Works...

Auditor-General casts his eye over QLD ICT, makes four significant recommendations

paris.cowan — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:15:55 +0000

Queensland Health’s payroll system may be on the road to recovery, but management of whole-of-government and agency ICT projects must be improved in order to...

A sunny outlook for Queensland following strong ICT Budget

paris.cowan — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 05:27:19 +0000

The Queensland Government has offered up another healthy budget for ICT, showing once again that the state is not afraid to spend on...

Defence CIO: Systems Integrator Panel due this month

paris.cowan — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:46:00 +0000

Greg Farr, Chief Information Officer at the Department of Defence, has told industry representatives at a Brisbane industry briefing that they ought to keep an eye out...

Queensland cops prove the value of Gov 2.0

paris.cowan — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:13:18 +0000

The Queensland Police Service (QPS) has been awarded the 2011 Excellence in eGovernment award for Gov 2.0, and...

Telehealth is the way of the future: CeBIT

khammond — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 05:09:15 +0000

Telehealth will be a key element in the future of health service delivery and has the potential to generate millions of dollars in savings, speakers at the CeBIT eHealth...

Queensland’s Environment Department to implement eWorkplace model

paris.cowan — Tue, 10 May 2011 06:45:15 +0000

The Queensland Government’s Department of Environment and Resource Management (DERM) is seeking to implement an ‘eWorkplace’model in an effort to...

QLD Department of Community Safety looks to external providers for ICT solutions

paris.cowan — Mon, 09 May 2011 03:15:40 +0000

Queensland’s Department of Community Safety (DCS) has hinted that a move to externally source solutions to its ICT needs is on the cards...

eHealth and new hospital infrastructure top the tech agenda at Queensland Health

paris.cowan — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:10:13 +0000

Queensland Health’s Information Division has given industry members a valuable insight into the technology-related priorities of the Department and its...

QLD Department of Public Works gives industry a heads up on ICT procurement

paris.cowan — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:55:37 +0000

The Queensland Department of Public Works has provided a rough sketch of where its $35.8 million operations budget...

QLD Government wants to be in the palm of your hand

paris.cowan — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:17:05 +0000

As Australians find that more and more of their daily interactions take place in the palm of their hand, governments have no choice but to follow suit and make...

Twenty suppliers slimmed to a single consortium in new QLD Health telco panel

paris.cowan — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:37:08 +0000

Queensland Health has revealed it intends to establish a whole-of-department telecommunications...

Seqwater’s ICT upgrade continues with the release of a CMS tender

paris.cowan — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:29:20 +0000

Queensland water authority, Seqwater, is in the process of rebuilding and redesigning its ICT infrastructure and has...

What can we expect from new ICT Minister Simon Finn?

paris.cowan — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:58:15 +0000

Simon Finn, who was sworn in as the new Queensland Minister for ICT on Monday, will be working to a very full schedule into the foreseeable future. On top of a...

Achieving Maturity: The Single Client View

khammond — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:52 +0000

Client serving agencies in NSW, Queensland and Victoria appear to be moving closer to the achievement of a ‘single client view’, after some years of...

Whole-of-Govt ICT Services Panels in Vogue Across the Nation

paris.cowan — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:01:25 +0000

In the past five years State and Federal governments have almost universally implemented Whole-of-Government (WofG) Panels to meet their ICT Services needs...

QLD Floods Inquiry to Put Disaster Management Technology Back on the Agenda

paris.cowan — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 23:09:38 +0000

In the aftermath of the Queensland flood disaster, and with floods now also impacting other states, it looks likely that disaster prediction and communication technologies are likely to be back on the government agenda...

Queensland ICT Strategy refresh reveals new whole-of-government priorities

paris.cowan — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:10:51 +0000

A refresh of the Queensland Government’s ICT Strategy has revealed further detail about the future direction for ICT...

New Shared Service direction in Queensland

aleksvickovich — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:16:16 +0000

The Queensland Government has announced it will abandon its monolithic whole-of-government approach to shared services and replace it with...

Queensland seeks whole-of-government contract lifecycle management solution

aleksvickovich — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:02:54 +0000

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

QLD agencies climb aboard the Web 2.0 bandwagon

aleksvickovich — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 06:50:20 +0000

A Queensland State Archives (QSA) report released to the public this week has found that 51 per cent of Queensland government agencies are...

IBM strikes R&D gold in Queensland

aleksvickovich — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:01:50 +0000

IBM will expand its research and development operations in QLD thanks to financial assistance awarded by the Gold Coast City Council (GCCC), according to...

CorpTech responds to the Queensland Health payroll audit

aleksvickovich — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:08:26 +0000

The Queensland Government’s information systems provider, CorpTech, will undertake a raft of measures aimed at...

Payroll and record-keeping systems face overhaul at Queensland Health

aleksvickovich — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 03:53:17 +0000

Queensland Health has outlined plans to implement a localised payroll model and new electronic record-keeping...