Pilot WITEM Coaching Circles 2012 launch
Tonight I attended a launch for the exciting new Pilot Women in IT Executive Mentoring (WITEM) Coaching Circles 2012 program.
Since 2007, AGIMO has partnered with Dell to deliver WITEM programs within the Australian Public Service (APS). The Pilot WITEM Coaching Circles program, for our Executive Level 1 leaders, is closely linked to the existing WITEM Executive Level 2 program and is the sixth WITEM-related program to be held in Canberra for the Australian Government. Read more
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Nominations for the 2012 ICT Awards are about to close
Nominations for the Excellence in eGovernment Awards, Government 2.0 Innovator Award and the ICT Professional of the Year Award close at 6:00pm (AEDT) on Thursday 1 March 2012 – so you still have time to nominate! Read more
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Reviewing the Common Operating Environment Policy
Just over 12 months ago, we published the first version of the Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment (COE) Policy on this blog. Unexpectedly, it resulted in the largest number of comments we have ever received on a single post. The surprise was compounded as we had sought comments on the draft policy twice in the preceding months, to little effect.
Most of the discussion was on a small aspect of the policy: the prefered document standards for interoperability within government. This was a little frustrating as only a small number of correspondents identified that the policy neither drove any new expenditure nor affected citizens or business. Readers will see that we have tried to better explain the situation this time. Read more
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Reviewing the COE Policy – office productivity suite file format discussion
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Thanks for the input – Cloud Computing Better Practice Guides now finished
Over the past few months, we have been working with industry and agencies to produce a series of Better Practice Guides for Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act) agencies on the key financial, legal and privacy concerns agencies may face when considering cloud-based services.
In November 2011, we released draft versions of the guides for public comment. Below, we now provide the links to the finalised versions of these guides. The guides have been developed to reflect Australian Government FMA Act agencies’ responsibilities in the context of the Australian legislative and regulatory environment. Read more
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Not Just Nonsense
Last week, I gave a presentation to members of the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy on the use of social networking tools in government. In accordance with our developing practice, I am posting the slides here on our blog. The presentation was also videoed and, for those of you who really need to get a life, we’ll post the links to the video once they are available. In the mean time, the gist of the discussion follows. Read more
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2012 Australian Government ICT Awards open for nominations
It is again my pleasure to open the Excellence in eGovernment Awards, Government 2.0 Innovator Award and the ICT Professional of the Year Award for 2012.
It is now seven years since the government first introduced an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Awards program. In that time, every nomination we have received has been an acknowledgement of the excellent work that Government does. Read more
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