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• Govt CIOs silent on Gershon fallout

  A number of top-ranking federal government chief information officers have broadly declined to comment on any fallout for their departments from the news that the Federal Government will adopt Sir Peter Gershon's recommendations "in full".

• Domain bureaucrats: Bungling the .gov.au space

  Australia's second level domain name system for government may have an air of legitimacy, but bureaucratic bungling is confusing Web administration between levels of government, according to one German researcher.

• CeBIT: Business-savvy open-source vendors wanted

  Open source vendors need to become "more business-like" in their dealings with government if they are to see their products prosper in the public sector, according to a government official.

• Only foreign workers can solve govt IT skills crisis

  Not enough migrant workers are being hired to work in public service IT, which is contributing to a government-wide ICT skills shortage, according to a report by the Australian Government Information Management Office.

• Customs deploys Vista

  update: The Australian Customs Service will shortly begin deploying Microsoft's brand new Windows Vista operating system to its PC fleet of some 5,500 machines.

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  Budgeting for a skills shortage

  There is no technology skills crisis ... yet, according to a senior government technology official.

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• Australia sources for open strategy

  Government departments have shed their initial reluctance to use open source technologies, but the problem persists -- how do you determine appropriate usage?

• OSS guide backs government's "informed neutrality" procurement stance

  A new guide designed to help federal government agencies evaluate open-source products alongside their proprietary rivals is due to be completed and distributed by September, officials told ZDNet Australia today.

• Can the government solve its IT woes?

  Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?

• How government Web sites stack up

  Government Web sites around the world are not reaching the public as effectively as they might.

• Time to labour for IT

  Remember the Labor Party´s "Knowledge Nation" IT manifesto unveiled in the last federal election? It died a natural death. Will the party's communications and information policies for the October federal election suffer the same fate?

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