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• All-in rumble for $80m NT Govt tender

  Virtually every large technology goods and services provider in Australia has thrown their hat in the ring as the Northern Territory Government prepares to overhaul its ICT contracts in an $80 million whole of government purchasing initiative.

• ATO shuffles CTO position

  After four years maintaining its chief technology officer role as a contractor, the Australian Taxation Office has decided to make the position permanent.

• Govt CIOs: Vendors must play nice in multisourcing

  Australian Tax Office CIO Bill Gibson believes that with the days of one-vendor-fits-all type outsourcing now over, long-running rivals will be forced to enter marriages of convenience if they are to get a share of the government dollar.

• Unisys bags AU$240m Defence IT deal

  The Department of Defence has signed a AU$240 million, five-year contract with Unisys to provide support services such as network security, infrastructure support and server and desktop support.

• Government outsourcing: get with the program!

  Current government outsourcing methods are behind the times according to Unisys Australia, which says a re-focus on business desires rather than cost savings need to be deployed if the public sector wants to operate in the e-government world.

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  Should security clearances be outsourced?

  Everything from cleaning to IT development work is outsourced by governments these days, but should security clearance processes, which dictate what access a person has to government information systems, be included in that bundle?

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• Gershon: Easier said than done

  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.

• 10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

  As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry.

• Farr the reformer talks Defence

  A year from taking on perhaps the toughest IT job in the country, Defence chief information officer Greg Farr is staring down the barrel of a massive ICT reform agenda for 2009 that will reveal whether Defence got the "expert CIO" they needed.

• Rudd awakening: Govt's plans for ICT

  Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?

• India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

  In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

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