Without such national co-ordination the country risks continuing to waste IT investments by failing to develop systems that can be scaled nationally.
Australiens Regierung will einen Fahrplan für die Entwicklung der digitalen Wirtschaft des Landes erarbeiten. Dabei will sie auch die Bürger einbeziehen: Sie können auf einer Website ihre Meinung zur digitalen Zukunft des Landes äußern.
Weiterlesen: Australien diskutiert über die digitale Wirtschaft
The report, which was developed by consultancy Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu earlier this year but only partially published last week, was endorsed by state and federal health ministers last week as a key strategy document outlining how the nation's outdated and dysfunctional health IT systems should be brought up to date.
Lindsay Tanner, Minister for Finance and Deregulation said: “Over the four years this study has been undertaken we have seen successive increases in use of the internet as a tool to interact with government.”
Australian Governments of all levels have jointly released a framework to accelerate the development and use of broadband in Australia to ensure the country remains domestically and internationally competitive.
The Framework for the collaborative development and use of broadband in Australia was released by representatives at the 16th meeting of the Online and Communications Council (OCC) in Melbourne.
Weiterlesen: Australia: Federal, state and local Governments set national broadband priorities