Finance Minister Lindsey Tanner yesterday announced that EDS had won an AU$25 million contract over four years to create australia.gov.au, a 'one-stop-shop' for all government information and services.
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.
The CSIRO has clinched a deal with the government to help link users with federal Web services.
Blogs could be the next frontier for governments to discuss plans and policies with citizens, according to special minister of state Gary Nairn. He told the CeBIT conference in Sydney this morning that blogs could represent a "new era" in community interaction.
Local search specialist and CSIRO spinoff Funnelback will continue to provide search services to the federal government's primary online portal and other Web sites, in a two-year deal worth AU$2.25 million.
Welfare agency Centrelink has started recruiting for two senior IT executives to bolster its technology management team in its national office in Canberra.
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