After more than a decade of large-scale investments in hard infrastructure, the Berejiklian Government in NSW is retooling for new levels of public investment into ‘soft’ infrastructure, with a...
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It might be time for a rethink of Australia’s obsessive focus on small and medium-sized (SME) tech companies in relation to government procurement. The focus should be on Australian...
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Three US tech giants have been shortlisted by the government to have another go at developing its new “permissions capability” platform to handle visa processing, after a botched first...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has renewed its whole-of-government deal with German tech giant SAP, which is now worth $315 million. Last week the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) confirmed it...
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Boston Consulting Group was paid more than $11 million over three months to digitise the Victorian government’s paper-based COVID-19 contact tracing system late last year and implement Salesforce’s customer...
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The federal government will pay consulting giant Deloitte more than $1.5 million for its off-the-shelf online forum platform and social media management tools for use by the tax office....
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Spending by Australian governments on information technology is expected to exceed $13 billion this year, according to global research outfit Gartner. That’s an extraordinary amount of money and a...
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The Digital Transformation Agency has entered contracts worth more than $20 million with recruiters and HR firms for temporary staff in the current financial year alone, with ongoing concerns...
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The Victorian government has paid tech giant Microsoft nearly $6 million to use its COVID-19 vaccination management platform, with the vaccine rollout set to start next week. The Microsoft...
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The federal government’s digital identity program should be “abandoned and redesigned from scratch” according to researchers who last year discovered a significant flaw in the system’s design. The Digital...
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The imminent rollout of a digital COVID-19 vaccination certification risks becoming another government tech wreck, Labor and a number of digital rights advocates have warned, with concerns over the...
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Deloitte will be paid more than $1 million for six months of work on the federal government’s new digital platform for job seekers, joining a number of other large...
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After three years in the works, the government’s long-awaited data sharing scheme for public sector information has been knocked back at the first test, with a group of senators...
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The federal government has handed Deloitte a contract worth $4.5 million for further work on the new myGov platform, bringing the consulting giant’s total bill for the project to...