Guest Post: Get ready for 1 May 2011 – the FOI Information Publication Scheme
This post is from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The OAIC is working with AGIMO to develop accessibility advice for agencies for the Information Publication Scheme (IPS).
We hope this post will contribute to agencies’ understanding of how to comply with the accessibility requirements in the context of the IPS, and to help agencies get ready for 1 May 2011. Read more
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Government Moves to Actively Consider the Greater Use of Open Source Software
Today I released the revised Australian Government policy on open source software. The revised policy aims to strengthen the consideration of open source software by agencies when they go through ICT software procurements. Read more
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Back to the Future: Another chance to influence COE development
As Kayelle noted earlier in the week, AGIMO’s Common Operating Environment (COE) policy is now finalised and available on the web. Since it was released, there has been a range of discussions about aspects of the policy in posts and comments on several online news sites (e.g. here, here, here and here). Much has also been said on Twitter – mainly at #AGIMO. Support has varied – there have been positive views and negative comments. Several people suggested we hadn’t been open about this – despite blog posts (here and here) and various presentations. As Andrea DiMaio from Gartner has pointed out, we really tried hard to get public comment. Since people seem to have more to say, we have reopened the discussion in the hope that constructive criticism will inform future versions of the policy. Read more
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Your comments on the ICT services panel discussion paper
I’d like to begin by thanking all of you who have made comments on the ICT services panel discussion paper so far – whether on the blog, in separate emails or via the media or other means. We were very keen to get a good discussion going on this important subject and we seem to have succeeded. There is still plenty of time to get involved so, if you have something to add, from the industry, academic, individual or industry perspective, please do so. Read more
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Common Operating Environment policy released
Hi everyone, just to let you know that AGIMO’s Common Operating Environment (COE) policy is now finalised and available on the web. I’m acting for John Sheridan at the moment so I am closing this on his behalf. Read more
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Consultation: Draft Australian Government Cloud Computing Strategy Paper
As part of AGIMO’s role, we monitor new developments in the ICT environment that may benefit or affect the Australian Government.
Cloud computing is a growing area of interest in ICT and we’ve worked together with other agencies to prepare a draft paper on the Australian Government’s possible use of cloud computing. Read more
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