Coalition promises “virtually all” government services to be online by 2017

By Julian Bajkowski The Coalition has officially launched its eGovernment  and Digital Economy policy for the election in a wide-ranging document that reaffirms a commitment centralised procurement of government computing combined with the development of a permanent and centralised digital identity credential for online transactions between the public and agencies. Released by Shadow Communications Minister […]

Rudd taps software vendor profits to extract carbon scheme savings

By Julian Bajkowski Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has thrown down the gauntlet to Commonwealth Public Service executives to start extracting much greater efficiency and productivity gains from technology and software or face the prospect of hundreds of upper-level forced redundancies. Mr Rudd and Treasurer Chris Bowen on Tuesday revealed well-anticipated expenditure reduction measures aimed at […]

Feds propose agency requirement to support Open Document Format

By Julian Bajkowski The once mighty proprietary influence of Microsoft over government software and operating environment standards has been dealt a further blow after the Australian Government Information Management Office revealed that it now wants the Open Document Format to be supported as a file standard in productivity application suites used by most federal agencies. […]

Full exposure for Federal procurement data

By Julian Bajkowski The federal Department of Finance has announced that it will for the first time release a giant mass of procurement data from the AusTender tender and contract tracking system as a single file to improve visibility of purchasing. Speaking at the Kickstart technology media conference on the Sunshine Coast on Sunday, newly […]

AGIMO split by management shake-up

By Julian Bajkowski The agency tasked with coordinating whole-of-government technology strategy has been split in two by a significant shake-up in the wake of the resignation and retirement of federal Chief Information Officer Ann Steward. A statement issued by the Australian Government Information Management Office has named Glenn Archer as the new Australian Government Chief […]

Microsoft gouges government on pricing

By Julian Bajkowski The federal government could soon usher in sweeping changes to the way it buys hundreds of millions of dollars of software from technology giants like Microsoft to extract much better value for money and greatly boost the flexibility and productivity of public sector computing. A landmark public submission from the Australian Government […]

Cloud shopping catalogue by November

By Julian Bajkowski The federal government has moved one step closer to allowing agencies to access cloud computing services after the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) issued an invitation to industry to sign up to a panel of suppliers. In a post to its official blog, AGIMO first assistant secretary agency services, John Sheridan, […]

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