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  • Australian Twitter use hits all-time high

    Australian use of the Twitter micro-blogging service hit an all-time high for the week ending 10 January 2009, as a number of factors contributed to its growth.

  • Immigration inks AU$44m e-visa deal

    The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has signed a four-year, AU$44.2 million contract to continue buying electronic border management technology from its existing vendor CPS Systems.

  • DIMA signs AU$140m deal with Unisys

    update: The Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) has signed a AU$140 million contract with Unisys for a range of outsourced desktop services.

  • Treasury taps DIMA for new CIO

    The federal Department of the Treasury has swiped an IT manager from the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) to fill its new chief information officer position.

  • DFAT to review pressured ICT function

    The federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) will bring in an outside consultant to review its ICT function, which has come under "considerable pressure" due to significant recent changes in its operating environment.

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  • The ICT labour market: Where agendas collide

    Companies want cheap labour, universities depend on international student dollars, industry needs key skills, and local graduates just want a job. Mark Wheeler investigates the drama playing out over the ICT labour market.

  • An eye for an aye

    Australia is keeping pace with other governments in biometric usage but are we operating in a policy vacuum with technology that is far from perfect?

  • The ACS fires ... but shoots blanks?

    The Australian Computer Society plans to meet government officials to highlight the urgent need for immigration reform but its proposal lacks substantive data and this could only hurt the society.

  • How to manage cross-cultural outsourcing

    This article covers some best practices for cross-cultural outsourcing.

  • Succeeding in integration: Part three

    In this third instalment of our ongoing series, we take a look at four integration projects, the problems they faced, and how the organisations involved overcame them.

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