The Federal Government’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has called for submissions on draft national standards and rules that will frame its emerging digital identity program. Assistant Minister for Digital Transformation, Angus Taylor, has released the Trusted Digital Identity Framework (TDIF) for public feedback, following a period of consultation with other government agencies and with industry […]
16 November, 2017
A recent audit by Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) revealed that there are currently over 70 significant IT projects in the Federal Government. With an estimated lifetime cost of $7.2 billion, it is clear that digital in government is here to stay. Although it strategy into cloud and open source is clear, part of the […]
15 November, 2017
South Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) has won the top prize at this year’s Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Sector Management. The Gold award was given for PIRSA’s South Australian River Murray Sustainability (SARMS), a $265 million program funded by the Australian Government under a National Partnership Agreement, which is […]
15 November, 2017
Darwin to get ‘switched on’ The Australian Government has made its first grants under its Smart Cities and Suburbs Program. The grants are to Darwin to ‘switch on’ the city, and to a number of smaller projects in Perth. The program, announced in March 2017 has earmarked $50 million for projects across Australia, with 40 […]
14 November, 2017
We didn’t plan it this way. But every story in Government News this week has to do with government’s use of digital technology. It is a sure sign of the times. In the PC boom of the 1980s and the Internet booms of the 1990s, digital technology began to change our lives. Now, in the […]
13 November, 2017
The new ANZ Local Government Digital Maturity Index (DMI) surveyed over 100 local government authorities in Australia and New Zealand about the extent to which they are digitising their internal processes and the delivery of their services. It also shows the extent to which LGAs are measuring the extent of their digitisation. The DMI shows […]
13 November, 2017
Social media is now a major channel through which Australia’s government sector disseminates information. It is also increasingly important in other ways – as a way of measuring community reaction to government initiatives, for example. The ninth annual Social Media for Government Summit in Melbourne has heard from dozens of government speakers about how social […]
13 November, 2017
While digital automation has started to transform the public sector, there remains at least one place where human interaction is – and always will be – vital to the success of an organisation. Digitisation has not only changed how we shop, listen to music, and even travel to the airport, but it is also now […]
13 November, 2017
Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has rebuilt its IT systems over the last three years, moving all its applications onto Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. CIO Dr Steve Hodgkinson says the new environment has enabled DHHS to develop applications much more quickly, using an approach he calls ‘Platform+Agile’, ‘Platform’ refers to the cloud, […]
13 November, 2017
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has set up an email hotline for technology providers who have difficulties dealing with the Federal Government. Speaking to industry at the National Press Club on 10 November, Assistant Minister for Digital Transformation Angus Taylor said the DTA has a strong focus on engaging with businesses. “We are constantly looking […]
12 November, 2017
Australia will be the first country in the world to use new GPS technology that will be almost a hundred times more accurate than the existing system. The new system will enable a range of new applications, such as precision farming. The Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) trial is being managed by Geoscience Australia in […]
12 November, 2017
Australia government-owned research body, CSIRO, says Australia may get an entirely new industry as a result of Australian developed carbon fibre technology. It has announced “Australia’s first entirely home grown carbon fibre,” which it says will enable Australian industry to mass-produce products that use the advanced material, “used in everything from bicycles and tennis rackets […]
8 November, 2017
The inaugural Australian Public Service Diversity and Gender Equality Awards have been held. Winner of the individual award was Justin Lokhorst, Director of Construction Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The department/agency award was to the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), the network award to ATOMIC (the ATO’s Making Inclusion Count LGBTI employee network), […]
8 November, 2017
NSW Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Andrew Constance, is a bit of a conference junky. His latest outing was at Salesforce.com’s annual ‘Dreamforce’ conference in San Francisco, where he had some interesting things to say about the future of transport in his home state. “Government gets Ubered all the time,” he said in his presentation. […]
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