NEC Australia hits the ‘Gong

Millions of dollars channelled into NSW regional IT.

13 November, 2014

Gartner examines post-election IT transitions

By John Kost* A change in the political leadership of government is often a time of high anxiety for public servants. Although it is unlikely that they will lose their jobs, it is still a time when the relationships and goodwill built up with the previous government may suddenly evaporate. As Australia heads towards a […]

23 January, 2014

Source code sunlight secures government trust says Eugene Kaspersky

By Julian Bajkowski The global computer security industry has spent at least a decade scaremongering and hyping-up the threat of Russian hackers and cyber-assailants through marketing and lobbying. So it perhaps shouldn’t be a surprise that when Kaspersky Labs founder, Eugene Kaspersky, took to the stage for his first National Press Club (NPC) in Canberra […]

8 November, 2013

Governments losing sight of risk assessments

By Paul Hemsley A new report from Gartner has found that organisations have become so buried in risk and security compliance requirements that they can’t keep up with all of them, a situation that has led to managers neglecting more important in-depth risk assessments and instead just ticking boxes. The analyst firm has cautioned that […]

16 August, 2013

WA Education inks $15m ASG deal

By Paul Hemsley The Western Australian Department of Education has expanded the role of its IT services provider ASG Group (ASZ) beyond its regular duties of finance, human resources and payroll services to the Department through a new contract worth $14.8 million to help it “modernise” its existing investment in Oracle technology. The publicly listed […]

27 June, 2013

NICTA called-in to plumb depths at Sydney Water

By Julian Bajkowski Top boffins at Australia’s government-funded information technology research and development lab, NICTA, have been called in to help fix notoriously leaky plumbing at state owned utility, Sydney Water. A statement released by the two organisations says that under a new agreement, NICTA’s machine learning capabilities will be applied to try and predict […]

13 February, 2013

NBN to change island life

Kangaroo Island mayor, Jayne Bates is excited about the potential for the national broadband network (NBN) to change life on the island, 16 kilometres by sea from South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.   According to Mayor Bates, it’s hard to say exactly what opportunities will open up but the council doesn’t want to miss any opportunities. […]

19 June, 2012

LGA SA gets online apps

International companies have expressed interest in working with the Local Government Association of South Australia (LGA SA) to create an online information application. The application would be for mobile phones and computers, attracting 16 IT design and development companies from Australia and overseas. The application, dubbed ‘My Local’, is meant to identify facilities, including schools, […]

8 June, 2012

Victoria’s budget calls for creative IT projects

By Lilia Guan   The Victorian Government’s recent release of its budget gives IT projects a little bit of breathing space, however with a billion dollars worth of cuts on the books with a lot of activity underway in cutting existing expenditure including IT projects.   The government’s recent release of its budget includes $258 […]

4 May, 2012

Queensland Rail’s Logica IT contract

By Lilia Guan   Queensland Rail has signed a managed services contract with Logica Australia – an IT business services provider.   The five year contract with Queensland Rail (QR), worth $33 million, will include transitioning and management of its newly-established ICT infrastructure platform.   Queensland Rail is owned by the State Government and manages passenger rail across […]

3 April, 2012

NSW Health and Police need to manage IT contracts better

The Audit Office of New South Wales has found the Ministry of Health and the NSW Police Force could not demonstrate continued value for money in the long term IT services contracts reviewed.   Auditor-General Peter Achterstraat said he examined the ongoing management and renewal of three IT services contracts—two at the Ministry of Health […]

23 March, 2012

Managing risk in IT contracts

By Lilia Guan   The recent bankruptcy filing of Kodak Eastman showed that even well established companies are susceptible to financial problems. This means that government agencies must factor in risk management with all of their IT contracts – no matter how long the vendor has been around for.   Ovum Australia public sector IT […]

9 February, 2012

Reduced IT services panel is not a bad thing

By Lilia Guan   Special Minister of State Gary Gray has announced a policy that will halve the number of IT services panels currently operating across the Australian Government.   The minister said the government’s policy to halve the number of IT services panels currently operating across agencies, will be implemented over a three year […]

13 December, 2011