Rather than dealing with the controversial public face of e-government, the NICTA group will look at improving interconnection between agencies' and departments' databases and IT systems.
The project was developed last year and approved in January. Director Jon Gray said it was too early to announce specific research areas, though some activities are already under way. "We need to work closely with agencies on real projects," Mr Gray said.
NICTA is working with the ACT government on a spatial and geographic data-related project. It has also built a predictive model to analyse how the e-tax system of online tax returns inter-operates with the Medicare system.
Using NICTA technology, the agency could model how the ATO and Medicare systems would handle significant growth in use of the e-tax system, or the addition of a new service.
"They could predict at what point the system would break and when they could introduce new hardware resources," Mr Gray said. "It corroborated that the system would perform adequately with the kind of loads they were forecasting."
Mr Gray said the NICTA tools and research would also be applicable to the proposed welfare access card system.
Other projects include automating business processes inside government.
NICTA's e-government project was featured at yesterday's Techfest in Melbourne.
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Quelle/Source: The Age, 06.03.2007
