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 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 Queensland state government today outlined sweeping changes to the framework under which the state's internal IT systems are developed and governed.
Peter Grant, the Queensland Government's former chief information officer, has left Microsoft after just 16 months with the software giant.
Queensland's information and communications technology minister Robert Schwarten has scheduled a trip to the US and Canada to meet with global tech giants and top-ranking public sector technology officials.
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.
Queensland has been launched into a snap state election, and the local IT Industry is feeling a little left out.
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