The Queensland state government has kicked off one of Australia's largest email and identity management projects, in a move that will see up to 80,000 email accounts consolidated into one overarching Microsoft Exchange 2007 system by mid-2010.
The Western Australia Police is chasing down a new chief information officer to manage the department's annual IT budget of $200 million after a search last August failed to find a candidate.
NSW Department of Corrective Services chief information officer Wayne Ruckley has retained his position after it was advertised late last year.
Victoria has temporarily promoted an internal staffer to its state deputy chief information officer role as it looks for a permanent candidate following the departure of Steve Hodgkinson last month.
The NSW Department of Corrective Services will force its current chief information officer, Wayne Ruckley, to re-apply for his position if he wants to keep it.
The long-term net impact of Gershon's idealistic review will realistically be negligible at best and at worst will prove to be a distraction for years to come.
Despite a changing of the guard in several influential departments and offices in the past 2-years (Health, Transport, Emergency Services, Police, Premier's, Public Works, and QGCIO, to name a few), the true identity of ICT influence in Queensland government still rests with the agency CIOs.
Gershon's recommendations are consistent with those of other jurisdictions that have undertaken similar reviews, and are aimed at giving the ICT centralisation/decentralisation pendulum a shove back towards the centre. This is, however, easier said than done.
Google's recently launched web browser, Chrome, will have to overcome a number of major obstacles before it can break the business ubiquity of Internet Explorer and counter the rise of Firefox.
The average annual salary of an Australian IT professional is currently $82,507, according to an extensive survey of the sector recently conducted by ZDNet.com.au.
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