Ernst & Young brands Australian governments digital laggards

NSW Finance Minister Perrottet bites back.

4 May, 2015

Turnbull tells APS to get Digital Services religion

Communications Minister calls for rapid culture change.

30 March, 2015

New International Council on Archives chief fires salvo at Big Tech

Data worth more than technology.

16 October, 2014

Cost of government ERP systems under fire in NSW

Standards opened to boost competition

7 August, 2014

Major makeover for Open Data access in NSW

User friendliness ported to mobiles.

22 July, 2014

Open Government gets official Community of Practice in NSW

State Budget away, NSW Finance Minister, Dominic Perrottet, says he wants public servants to come up with innovative ideas to traverse traditional boundaries and put data to work for the public good.

18 June, 2014

Turnbull blasts ASIC for putting public data behind paywalls

The Communications Minister has put agencies on notice that charging for access to taxpayer-funded information now lacks support at an official level and that Open Data is the way preferred way forward.

24 March, 2014

Former Tas premier sounds open data warning before Canberra’s crucial government analytics conference

The public sector is being urged to look at innovative savings and benefits instead of restrictive paywalls for access to public data.

17 March, 2014

Canberra the App reveals Capital’s undercover locations

Frustrated locals and tourists alike can now find the capital’s wealth of well-hidden resources thanks to some revealing smartphone innovation.

26 February, 2014

Cloud and open data pushed in NSW government ICT Strategy update

By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales government has revealed the next step in its ambitious plan to improve service delivery to the public and business through better technology after it released its new ICT Strategy Implementation Plan that will bring in both a new open data policy and a new cloud policy to bring […]

27 September, 2013

Victoria broadens geospatial mapping data release

By Paul Hemsley The Victorian government has moved to substantially broaden its collection of ‘open data’ available to industry and software developers by making more geospatial information available that pinpoints the geographic location of the state’s natural and constructed boundaries and features. It is the latest addition to the Victorian government’s public open data website […]

23 September, 2013

South Australia embraces Open Data

By Paul Hemsley The South Australian government has joined the ranks of the federal government and other state governments after Premier Jay Weatherill mandated a new requirement for all government agencies to house their public data in a central portal to ensure that it is accessible to the community at large. Following in step with […]

6 September, 2013

Queensland releases government technology vision

By Julian Bajkowski The Queensland Government has set out its grand vision for recasting how the state’s public sector buys and consumes more than $1.6 billion a year in technology services, software and infrastructure, confirming it will dump confirmed the longstanding build-own-operate model in favour of buying technology as a service. In a set of […]

30 August, 2013