Government tech buying could spearhead multinational tax crackdown

Overseas software licensing in the crosshairs.

30 April, 2015

Halton admits Finance will cede tech powers to Turnbull

Bets on for big shake-up of government technology in Budget.

9 March, 2015

Aussie Feds cloud challenge to Microsoft Office, Exchange

Desktop and Mail As-a-Service.

29 September, 2014

Human Services and Australia Post tie knot on Digital Mail

Turnbull hits fast forward on mail volume reductions

18 August, 2014

What Apple and IBM’s alliance means for government

Outsourcing enterprise scale deals and support.

17 July, 2014

Apple discount for public sector? Forget it

Agencies pay full price for kit as volume discounts lose influence.

8 July, 2014

Gartner snaps up last Australian Government Chief Information Officer Glenn Archer

Key former federal technocrat snares plum public sector analyst role.

29 April, 2014

Utility computing cutting across sectors

By Rob Forsyth* The change of government at the Commonwealth level will have no impact on the general move by the public sector toward greater acceptance of Cloud platforms to deliver citizen services. In fact, the new Coalition government will almost certainly accelerate this process. After several years of high-level policy development, the rubber is […]

8 January, 2014

Finance launches investigation into ERP software costs

By Julian Bajkowski The Department of Finance has put some of the world’s biggest business software companies on notice that their lucrative contracts will soon be the subject to a sweeping review as the federal government seeks to extract better value from so-called enterprise resource management (ERP) systems. Just a week after the election of […]

17 September, 2013

Coalition promises “virtually all” government services to be online by 2017

By Julian Bajkowski The Coalition has officially launched its eGovernment  and Digital Economy policy for the election in a wide-ranging document that reaffirms a commitment centralised procurement of government computing combined with the development of a permanent and centralised digital identity credential for online transactions between the public and agencies. Released by Shadow Communications Minister […]

2 September, 2013

Attorney General firmly spells out government cloud security policy

By Julian Bajkowski Federal Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus QC has drawn a firm line in the sand over how government buyers can adopt cloud computing solutions by stipulating a comprehensive set of security and risk assessments agencies must now adhere to before buying externally hosted computing and data storage capacity. The Attorney General late Friday released […]

8 July, 2013

Telstra dials-up $32m Federal Gateway deal

By Staff Writers Telstra has been awarded a $32 million deal to roll out secure gateway internet services across 11 government agencies as Canberra seeks to further consolidate and modernise its public-facing online infrastructure. The formerly government-owned national carrier has scored an agreement with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (ACBPS) for a minimum […]

5 July, 2013

Public service given mobile marching orders

By Julian Bajkowski Federal agencies and departments have been firmly put on notice by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Special Minister of State Mark Dreyfus QC that they are expected to waste no time in delivering services to the public on mobile platforms as part of a major shake-up in public service culture. The two […]

12 June, 2013

Feds propose agency requirement to support Open Document Format

By Julian Bajkowski The once mighty proprietary influence of Microsoft over government software and operating environment standards has been dealt a further blow after the Australian Government Information Management Office revealed that it now wants the Open Document Format to be supported as a file standard in productivity application suites used by most federal agencies. […]

4 June, 2013