The Federal Government has ousted Patricia Scott from her role leading Stephen Conroy's broadband department, installing former Bob Hawke senior staff and Victorian public servant Peter Harris in her place.
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.
Almost 300 million worth of public sector IT projects have been binned in the UK, sparking accusations the government is embarking on the schemes without proper thought.
Want to protect the Great Barrier Reef, enhance the health of your fellow Australians, or improve swimming coaching in Australia? Maybe an ICT career in the Australian Public Service is the way to go.
The federal government has announced the establishment of a taskforce of senior government officials to combat threatened shortfalls in some ICT skills within the Australian Public Service (APS).
Without consensus on labour issues, the eventual winner of the NBN may end up as little more than a lame duck and a cashed-up symbol of the conflict between the desire for progress and the lack of mechanisms to deliver it.
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?
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.
Whatever happens in the election, government departments at both state and federal levels are facing major changes to how they build and manage their IT infrastructure. Is the answer shared services, an increased focus on SOA, enhanced Web delivery -- or just telling everyone in your department to get a clue?
Hoffman's position on the board will ensure that the National Broadband Network Company can engage with the content industry in a meaningful way.
Canberra apparently has two plagues: kangaroos and IT contractors. After years fattening up on Canberra's fields, they've been marked by the government for a major cull. But is the latter group still the problem they once were?
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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