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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Release of Government ICT expenditure report
Today, the Special Minister of State, The Hon Gary Gray AO MP, released a report on Australian Government ICT expenditure in 2008-09 and 2009-10. The report is now available on the Department of Finance and Deregulation website. Read more
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2011 Australians’ use and satisfaction with e-Government Services report released
Today, I have released the report Interacting with Government ‑ Australians’ use and satisfaction with e-Government Services 2011, which shows Australians prefer to access Government services online. The report is now available on the Finance website.
This is the sixth and last in the time series of studies that commenced in 2005. Read more
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Release of the AGA Reference Models Version 3.0 and How to Use Guide
Today, at the Government Enterprise Architecture Summit in Brisbane, I launched Version 3.0 of the Australian Government Architecture Reference Models, together with the new Australian Government Architecture How to Use Guide.
Both can be found on the Australian Government Architecture page at the Department of Finance and Deregulation website. Read more
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Your thoughts wanted on Cloud Better Practice Guides
We have been working with several lead agencies to develop Better Practice Guides on areas such as Security, Records Management, Privacy, Legal and Financial issues relating to cloud computing.
Below are links to the draft Better Practice Guides on the Privacy, Legal and Financial considerations agencies may face in cloud computing: Read more
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IPv6 Transition – Progress of Australian Government
Yesterday John Hillier and I presented at the Australian IPv6 Summit in Melbourne. We provided an update on the progress being made by Australian Government agencies in line with our IPv6 transition strategy. The transition strategy runs over five years, from January 2008 to December 2012, so we are almost three quarters of the way through. Agencies continue to make good progress towards the final milestone of December 2012. The slides we used are attached. We’d welcome comments on this post.
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Innovation
On behalf of all of us here at AGIMO, I’d like to acknowledge the significance of Steve Jobs’ contribution to technology. Like many people around the world, we are saddened by his death.
His leadership and vision profoundly contributed to how we view and use technology today.
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Australian Government Cloud Implementation Initiative
In April 2011 we released the Australian Government Cloud Computing Strategic Direction Paper that positioned government agencies to choose cloud based services if they demonstrate value for money and are adequately secure.
We indicated in the Strategic Direction paper (Table 1: Tactical Application and Use of Cloud by Government at the Information and Technology Layers, Page 20) that we considered non-sensitive information was suitable for transitioning to the public cloud now. Read more
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Science or Fiction: ICT in the future of government service delivery
Last week, I spoke to the FutureGov conference in Canberra about government service delivery, in particular, the role in that delivery of ICT. Rightly, much is made of the advantages ICT can bring to this and other aspects of modern government. However, as Dr Francis Collins of the Human Genome project observed, we tend to overestimate the short term impact of technology and underestimate the long term impact. Some things about the future are quite sure (and, foolishly as it turns out, at this stage I made a prediction about the Rugby World Cup). Others are not. My presentation touched on several of these: mobility, simplicity, security, privacy, social media, ubiquity and accessibility. Read more
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Winner of 2011 ICT Young Professional of the Year Award announced
Last night I was delighted to attend the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) Young ICT Professionals Conference gala dinner to present the Australian Government’s ICT Young Professional of the Year Award for 2011.
We are very fortunate to have in our industry the quality of talent shown by our three finalists: John Danassis of the Australian Taxation Office, Squadron Leader Daniel Howarth from the Department of Defence and Duncan Young of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Read more
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