South Australia’s Department of Primary Industries and Regions (PIRSA) has won the top prize at this year’s Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Sector Management. The Gold award was…
Category: Technology
First Smart Cities funding announced
Darwin to get ‘switched on’ The Australian Government has made its first grants under its Smart Cities and Suburbs Program. The grants are to Darwin to ‘switch on’ the city,…
Digital here, digital there – digital everywhere!
We didn’t plan it this way. But every story in Government News this week has to do with government’s use of digital technology. It is a sure sign of the…
How do LGAs measure digital transformation?
The new ANZ Local Government Digital Maturity Index (DMI) surveyed over 100 local government authorities in Australia and New Zealand about the extent to which they are digitising their internal…
Social media an important government channel
Social media is now a major channel through which Australia’s government sector disseminates information. It is also increasingly important in other ways – as a way of measuring community reaction…
Digital is important – but so is the human touch (OPINION)
While digital automation has started to transform the public sector, there remains at least one place where human interaction is – and always will be – vital to the success…
Cloud strategy transforms Victoria’s largest agency
Victoria’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has rebuilt its IT systems over the last three years, moving all its applications onto Azure, Microsoft’s cloud platform. CIO Dr Steve…
Tell us your problems, we’re porous, Taylor tells ICT industry
The Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) has set up an email hotline for technology providers who have difficulties dealing with the Federal Government. Speaking to industry at the National Press Club…
Government announces ‘world first’ satellite positioning system
Australia will be the first country in the world to use new GPS technology that will be almost a hundred times more accurate than the existing system. The new…
CSIRO spins carbon web
Australia government-owned research body, CSIRO, says Australia may get an entirely new industry as a result of Australian developed carbon fibre technology. It has announced “Australia’s first entirely home grown…