"The digital revolution itself," said Australia Post managing director and CEO, Ahmed Fahour, "is the worst enemy of our business."
Speaking at an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce lunch, Fahour described the first months of Australia Post's five-year restructure, expected to align it with the nation's falling postal demand.
The rate of progress in developing an e-health network was one of the main topics of discussion on the first day of the Information Technology in Aged Care (ITAC) conference in Melbourne.
The CEO of the National E-Health Transition Authority (NEHTA), Peter Fleming, justified the long implementation period, saying advances must be taken in small steps now to avoid large mistakes in the future.
Weiterlesen: Australia: E-health: slow and steady wins the race
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s (DIAC) plan to complete its transformational change under the Systems for People program has been delayed due to the Federal election on 21 August.
Speaking at the CIO Summit 2010 this week, DIAC chief information officer, Bob Correll, told attendees that the department had initially planned to complete the second drop of 2010 on 21 August, but that this had since been delayed due to the announcement of the election. The last rollout, which has not as yet been rescheduled by the department, would see the implementation of a generic visa portal, facilitating easier processing of DIAC’s 140 different types of visas, and effectively cutting down the length of time it takes to approve or deny an inbound traveller access to Australia.
Weiterlesen: Australia: Federal election delays visa, immigration changes
And there are no plans in place to make the service available where it is most needed - in GPs' offices.
Doctors and medical software developers are "bitterly disappointed" that it will be years before patients see any benefits from the new HI service, built to support expanded electronic information-sharing across the health sector.
Weiterlesen: Australia: NEHTA, vendors lock horns over HI service
Manager of digital engagement for the Department of Justice Victoria, Patrick McCormick, said the public sector could not be in control when collaborating with online audiences.
“I think crowd surfing is what engagement is looking like... this is the kind of thing that’s very hard for government – to trust the community, to admit some uncertainty and to go with the flow,” he told delegates at the Effective Community Engagement conference in Sydney this week.
Weiterlesen: Australia: Victoria: Govts must embrace online uncertainty