Coffs Harbour City Council has reapplied to create a pilot joint organisation of four North Coast councils.
The proposed joint organisation would include Clarence, Coffs Harbour, Bellingen and Nambucca.
Coffs Harbour mayor Denise Knight said the four councils had been sharing services for many years.
Weiterlesen: AU: New South Wales: Coffs council looks at joint organisation
Global advisory and accounting firm Ernst and Young has blasted the Australian government’s efforts to digitise its services to the community and business as “poor”, warning that “the nation’s ability to gain competitive advantage through innovative use of digital technology will quickly be eroded” unless a lack of political and financial commitment is reversed.
A new report — Digital Australia: State of the Nation — released on Monday by the firm report paints a dismal picture of government digitisation efforts to date, highlighting new findings that say that “almost a third of citizens nominated the public sector as providing their worst digital experience, putting it at the bottom of our national rankings.”
Weiterlesen: Ernst & Young brands Australian governments digital laggards
Health services that would usually cost hundreds of dollars and hours in travel are now just a click away for the many rural patients requiring specialist appointments.
Telehealth is fast capturing the attention of rural communities, connecting patients with specialists hundreds of kilometres away via a Skype-like system.
The technology means patients' travel costs are dramatically reduced and, in some cases, eliminated.
It would be easy to think that the notion of a "digital divide" is now outdated. Whose life isn't digital in some respect these days?
As shown in the recent Australian Communications & Media Authority (ACMA) report, Australians' digital lives, 92% of Australians use the internet across a range of technological devices. This suggests only a small minority of Australians are not using the internet. Perhaps they can't due to lack of availability or they don't out of choice.
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Australian technology leaders believe a lack of skills is the biggest threat to the success of digital delivery.
A new survey also found that IT budgets were growing in line with digital investment and a greater impact from digital disruption was expected this year.
The research comes from the Harvey Nash Australia Digital Event Pulse Survey 2015. It was shared at a recent digital event held in Sydney by recruitment consultancy and IT outsourcing service provider Harvey Nash Australia that attracted more than 120 industry leaders.