The Queensland state government has started looking for a high-level technology chieftain to lead its whole of government Technology Transformation Program.
The Queensland state government today outlined sweeping changes to the framework under which the state's internal IT systems are developed and governed.
British efficiency expert Sir Peter Gershon has suggested agency budget cuts totalling $540 million, castigating the federal public sector for poor governance mechanisms on technology projects and an ICT spending model which gave individual departments and agencies too much autonomy.
The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA) has pulled its new chief information officer from within its own ranks after the position was left vacant last October by Greg Carvouni.
The Department of Defence has announced its new CIO, Greg Farr, hired from the ranks of the Australian Taxation Office.
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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.
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.
When you really get down to it, former Victoria Police chief information officer Valda Berzins and her offsider John Brown aren't so different from many other IT managers in the public sector.
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