Citizens want eGovernment, but wary of data breaches

Australians want to be able to deal with all levels of government online but they remain wary of how governments treat their private information, a new survey shows.

3 April, 2018

Council adopts new approach to doing business

The City of Wyndham in Victoria is pioneering new ways of working and digital transformation as it responds to rapid population growth.

2 April, 2018

Best of 2016: ABS moves to quell Census panic on social media

Lost log-ins melt hotline.

20 December, 2016

Rate us: says Human Services

Centrelink and Medicare customers asked to rate digital support products.

9 September, 2015

Can the crowd deliver more open government?

Online civic engagement between elections.

24 August, 2015

How governments can learn from retail disruption

Kathleen O’Brien from Hybris talks about how

29 July, 2015

NSW digital stores improve online business with government

Perrottet gets digital.

19 November, 2014

Parking the new frontier in the sharing economy

Parkhound falls foul of Perth Council.

14 October, 2014

E-learning taking off in government

By Lilia Guan   Consulting service ILX Group  has secured staff training contracts with several Federal government departments.    These include the Australian Electoral Commission, Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, AusAid and Australian Bureau of Statistics.   ILX group country manager for Australia and New Zealand Michelle Phillips […]

28 March, 2012

Victoria floods $19.3m into warning systems

By Paul Hemsley   Water minister Peter Walsh said the $12.1 million Floodzoom tool will be built to improve communications to communities that are situated in areas that flood.   “It will give emergency services a more accurate prediction of flood behaviour and help individual land holders assess their own flood risk,” the minister said. […]

3 May, 2011

Opinion: Managing information 2.0

By Phil Vasic regional director, Clearswift.   In the web world today, councils and agencies are facing a bewildering challenge, on one hand, there’s the intensely fast move towards transparency, efficiency and collaboration and on the other lurk significant challenges such a data breaches, productivity and fraud.   There’s simply no merit in a black […]

15 April, 2011

Christchurch City Council back online

After two days of being down, Christchurch City Council’s website has been brought back online.   The Council’s site was shut down following the earthquake that hit the New Zealand city on February 22.   For the past 48 hours Christchurch City’s website was redirected to the Canterbury Earthquake site, which was reactivated by Environment Canterbury Regional […]

25 February, 2011

DAFF tracks online users

By Lilia Guan   The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) wants to better understand the behaviours of visitors to its Internet site.   DAFF has purchased PicNet's Mouse Eye Tracking software with a 24 month support package and is using the hosted version of the analytics service to better understand the behaviour of […]

13 October, 2010