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Kickstart 2013
Last week I spoke at Kickstart 2013, an event for IT journalists and industry. Below is an edited transcript of the speech (bad jokes and one political question removed, minor corrections made) which...
View ArticleProposed online engagement courses for the APS
Finance is considering conducting a series of practical 3 hour courses on social media for the Australian Public Service and we want to gauge interest from our APS stakeholders. Below are some course...
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SOCIAL(MEDIA)ISM at the International Public Sector Convention
This is a presentation I made at CPA Australia’s International Public Sector Convention on 22 February 2013. My message was that the time is right for Australian Government agencies to utilise social...
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Tomorrow Ready CIO
This is the transcript of a speech I recently gave to a conference entitled “Tomorrow Ready CIO” in Canberra. It covers the developing use of cloud computing by the Australian Government and the...
View ArticleWe want your views on data centre sourcing arrangements
The data centre environment has changed in a number of ways since the original scoping study conducted by Finance in 2009: density has increased, power needs have changed and the impact of cloud...
View ArticleICT Panel Expo – 27 March 2013 – Media opportunity
The Australian Government ICT Panel Expo is an event run by Finance to showcase whole of Australian Government ICT procurement arrangements. It presents information about procurement panels and other...
View ArticleDraft Roadmap for data.gov.au
As part of my role as Director for Gov 2.0 in the Technology and Procurement Division of Finance (under John Sheridan), I have responsibility for enhancing data.gov.au. This is quite exciting and an...
View ArticleGovernment procurement supporting Australian businesses
As the Australian Whole of Government Procurement Coordinator, I am very pleased to release a report on Analysis of Australian and Overseas contracts by the Australian Government. This report analyses...
View ArticleResponse to the Data Centres Sourcing Arrangement Consultation
Thank you to everyone who has responded to my posting both through the Blog and via email. The response was generally positive, with a number of respondents making comments on the changing market and...
View ArticleMobile Panel Review – Views sought from interested parties
The Whole of Government Telecommunications Commodities, Carriage and Associated Services Panel (“the Panel”) has been established since January 2011. In the first part of 2012, Finance reviewed the...
View ArticleVerifying the APS on Twitter
Over the last couple of months we have been diligently compiling data on Australian Government Twitter accounts so that we could update the canonical list of Australian Public Service (APS) Twitter...
View ArticleAustralia Joins the Open Government Partnership
Today the Australian Government Attorney General and Special Minister of State, the Hon Mark Dreyfus QC, has announced that Australia is joining the Open Government Partnership. This historic...
View ArticleViews Sought on Annual Review of the Common Operating Environment Policy
Over the past several months the Common Operating Environment (COE) Review Working Group, consisting of representatives from Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997 (FMA Act) Agencies, has...
View ArticleGuest Post: The Department of Human Services Seeks your Feedback
This guest post is from Scott Johnson, a social media adviser at the Department of Human Services. Have you ever used social media to engage with the government? Many departments are setting up...
View ArticleBetter Practice Guide for Data Centre Power Released for Comment
The data centre strategy team has developed a better practice guide on data centre power, and is seeking comments from industry and agencies. This is the first of a planned series of better practice...
View ArticleNew Suppliers added to the DCaaS Multi Use List
Following a competitive assessment process, a further 8 Suppliers have joined the DCaaS Multi Use List to supply Cloud and Cloud-Like services to Australian Government Agencies. These are: Converga Pty...
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Online Engagement Courses – Final Report
In May and June Finance ran some pilot sessions of two online engagement courses for the Australian Public Service (APS), one focused on individual public servants using social media, and one for...
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eGovernment: Learning the Rules of Engagement
This is a presentation I gave at the 2013 eGovernment Global Exchange in Singapore on 17 June 2013 where I was a guest of the Singapore Ministry of Finance and the Infocomm Development Authority (the...
View ArticleNew data.gov.au – now live on CKAN
A couple of months ago in the data.gov.au Roadmap we announced we were moving to the CKAN platform. It took a little longer than expected, but today we are proud to launch the new improved data.gov.au!...
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