Has WofG strategy overhaul in its sights.
The Tasmanian Department of Premier and Cabinet has appointed the state's first government chief information officer to lead the redevelopment of its ageing ICT strategy.
The agency confirmed it has hired former Department of Treasury and Finance director of information systems Glenn Lewis to the leadership role.
When last year’s eCensus became the target of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, the Australian Bureau of Statistics needed to brace itself for scrutiny and analysis of what went wrong for a long time to come.
Following the hack attack, it was found that the Bureau’s relationship with IBM, which was hired to develop the eCensus, left the system vulnerable to potential cyberattacks, leading to a public backlash, most prominently as a Twitter hashtag ‘#censusfail’.
Read more: AU: Outsourcing risk: lessons learned from eCensus procurement
Digital Transformation Agency interim chief Nerida O’Loughlin says the agency now has all the levers it needs to push the pace on digital transformation of public services, as she prepares to hand a steady ship to a new captain.
Malcolm Turnbull’s Cabinet recognises its efforts to make dealing with government “simple, fast and easy” have turned out more complicated, slow and difficult than hoped, according to interim Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Nerida O’Loughlin.
Read more: AU: Nerida O’Loughlin: DTA now has all the levers to push the pace after slow progress
Warren Lemmens, the CTO of Nokia Oceania, discusses Australia's emerging smart city landscape — and what the U.S. can learn from it.
Word from down under: Cities need to get smarter about data, younger people need to lead the charge, and the U.S. is not exactly out front on this stuff.
When Nokia released a detailed analysis on civic tech in the southern hemisphere, titled A new world of cities and the future of Australia — which gives a thorough accounting of the emerging smart city landscape there — we talked to Warren Lemmens, Nokia’s CTO Oceania, about the report's findings and its implications for U.S. cities struggling to get a handle on the smart city landscape.
Read more: AU: Every City Wants to Be Innovative. How Can They Get There?
Australia’s Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) is to undertake a review of the government’s biggest technology projects.
A newly-created Digital Investment Management Office within the DTA has been handed the brief to carry out the review, which is part of an effort by the Commonwealth government to get a handle on its AU$6.2bn (UK£3.8bn or US$4.8bn) annual ICT spend.
Read more: Australia’s government IT projects face scrutiny in new review