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Govt CIO praises budget's $1bn IT investment

Despite a tighter 2012-13 Federal Budget, the government's chief information officer Ann Steward has said that IT is still an important part of government spending, accounting for $1 billion in the Budget.

4 days ago in Government by Josh Taylor Comment Vote

Licensing focus in govt open source guide

The Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released the final "Guide to Open Source Software" for government agencies, which includes its new open source procurement principles.

July 4th, 2011 in Open Source by Suzanne Tindal 1 Comment 3 Votes

CeBIT 2011 day 2: video round-up

ZDNet Australia had further executives come to our stand at CeBIT yesterday. They've poured out their wisdom to us on the videos collated in this round-up.

June 2nd, 2011 in Cebit 2011 by ZDNet Australia Staff 1 Comment Vote

AGIMO finalises cloud directions strategy

After outing a draft in January for the Federal Government's cloud computing strategy, the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) has released the finalised cloud direction strategy.

April 14th, 2011 in Cloud by Luke Hopewell Comment Vote

Tanner claims Gershon victory

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner today said the government had found an additional $430 million in projected savings from its annual IT spend, meaning it had satisfied the Gershon Review's target of shaving off $1 billion a year.

November 6th, 2009 in Agimo by Liam Tung Comment Vote

Govt unleashes web 2.0 taskforce

The Federal Government today launched a taskforce to investigate web 2.0's ability to make government more transparent and increase community engagement.

June 22nd, 2009 in Government by Suzanne Tindal Comment Vote

CIO Steward defends 'light ICT' budget

Australian Government chief information officer Ann Steward defended last night's Federal Budget in a speech at the CeBIT conference this morning, saying that despite some complaints that it was light on tech spend, there had been ICT initiatives.

May 13th, 2009 in Agimo by Suzanne Tindal Comment Vote

Govt CIOs silent on Gershon fallout

A number of top-ranking federal government chief information officers have broadly declined to comment on any fallout for their departments from the news that the Federal Government will adopt Sir Peter Gershon's recommendations "in full".

November 26th, 2008 in Agimo by Liam Tung 1 Comment Vote

Gershon slams govt technocrats

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.

October 17th, 2008 in Agimo by Renai LeMay Comment Vote

Dirty data: IT, it's not your fault

The blame for poor quality data is too often laid at IT's door, when it should be the business taking responsibility, according to analysts.

March 20th, 2008 in Data Quality by Suzanne Tindal Comment Vote

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I think everyone is missing the big picture here and that is the anti-NBN zealots have effectively admitted defeat by complaining about t...

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Internet users certainly want the speed once they can get it#NBN

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Australian NBN subscribers are opting for 100/40 over 12/1 speeds: http://t.co/QsWk7u6Y That's the least surprising news I've ever read! :)

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I think that a CBA is unlikely because with the high proportion of customers now electing for the highest rate (50% of connections in Apr...

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But, yet again, Turnbull is clearly in error when he says that other companies cannot roll out copper. In South Brisbane Telstra chose to...

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Water, roads and electricity were all rolled out by government because there private companies weren't interested as the ROI in the early...

5 hours ago by GregoryB1 on Five pros and cons of the NBN

NBN users opt for 100Mbps http://t.co/T7uk1hbK by @joshgnosis

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5 hours ago by ChrisChinch on twitter, retweet

The case you outline, South Brisbane, is in fact the coalitions prefered model. They WANT the incumbent telco, Telstra, to provide the f...

5 hours ago by GregoryB1 on Five pros and cons of the NBN

Cybersecurity #collaboration between the US & Australia. http://t.co/p2uKLSBi

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So, over time, the Coalition policy will cost much much more than Labor's because they intend to subsidise the broadband of farmers and t...

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Sorry HC, what is meant by "Cinders "?

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Thanks Beta, I could hear the nurse walking down the corridor as you posted. Much better now.

7 hours ago by Doubt on NBN users opt for 100Mbps

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Q&A of the Week: 'The current state of the cybercrime ecosystem' featuring Mikko Hypponen http://t.co/6lUYFs0X

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