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• Kofi Annan's IT challenge

  In a special column for ZDNet, the UN secretary general says that bridging the digital divide requires the active involvement of tech decision makers in a global IT initiative.

• Microsoft challenges Aussie IT industry to IQ test

  Microsoft Australia is urging the IT industry to "pay to play" for its IT Fund for Kids "Know IT All" online IQ Test, scheduled for two-and-a-half weeks' time.

• Berners-Lee challenges 'stupid' male geek culture

  The inventor of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has called for an end to the "stupid" male geek culture that disregards the work of capable female engineers, and puts others off entering the profession.

• Government IT's biggest challenge still ahead

  High-profile IT project failures may have given government departments a certain degree of notoriety, but a recent review of around 150 major projects has shown that they're actually being managed quite effectively overall, a government advisor told a project management conference in Canberra this week.

• Healthy challenges for e-health

  Unless we can prove that electronic health records work, how can we justify additional IT spending to doctors, nurses, and patients?

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  Going green for IT

  According to research firm Gartner, by 2010 75 percent of organisations will use "full life cycle energy" and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.

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  Don't bank on it

  In the Australian market, banks are the archetypal large IT customer: they've got lots of technology of differing vintages, have to spend a fortune on services to stitch it all together, and are also obliged to meet a super-strict regulatory regime which would make most lesser enterprises quake in their virtualised boots.

Features and Case Studies (72)

• Providing value: CIO's ongoing challenge

  Balancing value to the business with finding an effective IT solution is the key to successful projects, argues a leading IT professional.

• Novell CEO: We made Microsoft open up

  Speaking to the Novell boss at his company's annual BrainShare user conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, ZDNet.com.au's sister site, ZDNet.co.uk asked whether the Microsoft deal could actually be damaging in the long run and what effect a financial downturn could have on Novell's recent recovery.

• 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?

• Become a security guru in five simple steps

  It's not difficult to become the local security expert -- the person others look to when they need network resources secured or who they point to when they want to source someone in their attempts to reform security policy -- There are really only five steps to it.

• RailCorp on track with IT

  Will chief information officer Vicki Coleman's plans to transform RailCorp's information and commmunications technology help the ailing NSW railway system's improvement drive?

Reviews (2)

• Office 2003 Beta 2: an IT perspective

  As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.

• Notebook overhaul on the horizon

  Five years from now the notebook will likely be smaller and lighter, capable of making mobile phone calls on its own and running on methanol.

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