Government 2.0 Steering Group update: December 2010
As regular readers of this blog would know, the Government 2.0 Steering Group is the body appointed to oversee the implementation of the Government’s response to the Government 2.0 Taskforce. In a previous post, we provided an introduction to the Steering Group and published summaries of its first three meetings.
The Steering Group has met twice since that post was published. A third meeting was cancelled due to unavoidable scheduling difficulties. Several of the Steering Group agencies have also appointed different representatives to the Group:
- The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet: Ms Philippa Lynch has replaced Dr Wendy Southern;
- The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: Ms Rachael Spalding has replaced Professor John McMillan; and
- The Attorney-General’s Department: Ms Hilary Russell has replaced Mr Kim Duggan. Read more
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ICT Services Panel Industry Briefing
We would like to measure your interest in a briefing session following the completion of my post on the proposed ICT Services Panel. Comments on that post will close on 21 January 2011 (update) the morning of January 27 2011 and the briefing session would be scheduled once the responses have been analysed. Read more
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APS ICT Entry Level Programs Graduation
For the past four years, the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has managed the APS ICT Entry Level Programs, recruiting ICT apprentices and cadets into a number of Australian Government agencies.
Last night I had the pleasure of attending the APS ICT Entry Level Programs Graduation Ceremony. It was a wonderful celebration of the achievements of 35 apprentices and cadets from 12 Government agencies who have now completed their academic qualifications while concurrently working in the APS. Read more
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Authentication services: enabling secure online access
I’m writing this blog post for members of the Australian Public Service, particularly those responsible for authentication services in their agencies. I want to make sure you are aware of the Government’s policy that authentication services are to be provided by a nominated set of lead agencies. Read more
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AGIMO 2011 – new opportunities for a new decade
Well, we’re heading towards the end of another year and I think it’s timely to give you an update on AGIMO’s work and future direction. This post is based on presentation that John, Glenn and I gave at a Government Watch function this week. Our presentations are available here on the blog in PDF and DOC formats:
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Guest post: Small agency mentoring — a mentee’s journey
Ewan Perrin is the chief information officer of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. He participated in the Small Agency Mentoring Program, as discussed by Glenn Archer in a previous post.
Late last year a band of small agency CIOs commenced the second AGIMO-sponsored Small Agency Mentoring (SAM) program. This program pairs us up with experienced large agency CIOs and senior IT leaders as mentors. SAM wrapped up recently. This is the story of my journey. Read more
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Open government – making it work
G’day, my name is Trevor Smallwood and I lead AGIMO’s cyber-security branch. I had the privilege of representing Australia at the International Council for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Government Administration (the ICA) council meeting and conference in Washington DC in November this year. The conference was attended by over 60 delegates from 20 countries. In this blog post I wanted to let you know about ICT priorities among ICA member countries. Read more
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AGIMO Blog Management Part II
You may have noticed that over the last few days our blog has received a larger than normal amount of spam comments. The blog uses a post-moderation system, where comments appear automatically unless they are caught in an automated spam filter. While this filter blocks the majority of submitted spam comments, it’s almost inevitable that some spam comments will make it through and be published on the blog. Read more
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Small Agency Mentoring Program
Recently I had the pleasure of attending the final meeting for this year of the Small Agency Mentoring Program (SAM). The program has been a terrific success and I enjoyed hearing stories from participants about their journey through the mentoring relationship and what they gained from the experience. Read more
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WISPers of change – ICT services panel discussion paper
AGIMO is pleased to continue its program of consulting industry to seek advice on procurement issues. Today we are releasing a discussion paper on proposals for new ICT services panel arrangements — available here on the blog in DOC (127k), PDF (101k) and HTML formats. We want to emphasise that this is a discussion paper. It is not policy, or even draft policy. The paper outlines the current ICT services panel situation, proposes a new model and encourages your input on the proposals. Some represent just incremental change from current practices. Others, if supported, could be more profound. Read more
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