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  • Tax CIO acts on security criticism

    Australian Taxation Office (ATO) chief information officer Bill Gibson has moved to keep a closer eye on the organisation's security governancefollowing a number of criticisms in an audit report.

  • Open source barred from Australian government

    Government was once the great hope for open source but it will continue to diminish due to a lack of support according to the CIOs of Australia's largest government agencies.

  • Defence overhauls HR systems in war-fighting effort

    Recently appointed Defence CIO Greg Farr will target Defence's "short of perfect" HR system as the first major tech overhaul he will head up.

  • ATO IT dept caged in AU$1bn outsourcing deals

    The Australian Tax Office's past outsourcing contracts were too rigid to cope with technological change, according to its CIO, Bill Gibson -- so this time, business gets shotgun and IT will take a back seat.

  • ATO passes on offshoring idea

    The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) will not go ahead with an Accenture proposal to offshore a small amount of the development work for its AU$400-$450 million Change Program.

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