Release of the Data Centre Facilities Request for Tender
I am pleased to announce that the Data Centre Facilities Request for Tender (RFT) to provide
data centre facilities under a Panel arrangement has been released on Austender as RFT FIN10/AGIO10 Exist and FIN10/AGIO10 Dev.
The RFT invites Tenders for both existing Data Centres and Data Centres under development.
The specifications for the Data Centres is based on our research and feedback provided in
response to the recent post on the AGIMO Blog. Thank you for your previous feedback — unfortunately I’m unable to take any further comments on the blog due to the tender process.
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Data Centre Migration Services
Hello again, in this post I’ll discuss our next step in bringing the Australian Government Data Centre Strategy to life.
AGIMO will soon invite tenders for data centre migration services on behalf of all Australian Government agencies. Essentially, this is for the services to move data centre equipment from one site to another. This is not a general IT consultancy – it is highly specialised infrastructure work. Read more
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The Government 2.0 Steering Group
The report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce said that leadership was one of the pillars of Government 2.0. Leadership, the Taskforce said, is crucial in bringing about the cultural change required to make government more open and transparent.
The Australian Government accepted the Taskforce’s recommendation to create a Government 2.0 Steering Group to provide leadership and oversight in implementing the Government 2.0 agenda. The role of the Steering Group also includes advocating that agenda across the Australian Public Service and reporting to the Government on its progress. The Steering Group’s terms of reference are available below: Read more
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Guest Post: Common Accessibility Fails
This post from Kim Chatterjee is the first in a series of Invited Guest Posts from our CoE members. We encourage everyone to get involved in the Community, so if you want to participate by writing a Guest Post and sharing your advice or views on accessibility, please let us know.
Accessibility in the online space is not just about whether a blind user with a screen reader can understand your website. It is about providing universal access and an effective user experience. This caters for the needs of people with hearing impairments, cognitive and motor impairments, but also caters for a much broader audience. It includes the guy who forgot to pack the mouse in his laptop bag and is keyboard-dependent, the lady who broke her glasses and squints an inch from the screen, the tourist who checks his online booking on his mobile, the potential international student trying to understand your instructions, and the kid who lives in rural Australia still waiting for your page to finish loading. Good accessibility = good usability. Read more
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