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Podcast: Shetler on transformation

It has been an extraordinary start to the year for digital transformation in the public sector. Certainly the very real failings of the Centrelink automated debt recovery system have...

Where oh where is the DTA?

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We seem to have travelled a long way to get not very far in relation to the digital transformation of Australian Government services. It’s in pieces. The notion of...

When ex-CDO’s go postal: Shetler

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The high error rate of Centrelink’s automated debt recovery operation is “catastrophic”, “shocking”, “appalling” and “extremely preventable,” according to the Turnbull Government’s former digital transformation tsar Paul Shetler. And...

Summer reading: A lazy book list

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Ho, Ho, Ho, you beautiful people. We are readying the car for an insanely long road-trip through the deserts of the ‘real Australia’ and have been gathering all the...

DTA’s Paul Shetler resigns

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The man hand-picked by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to lead the digital transformation of the Australian Government, Paul Shetler, has resigned. Mr Shetler, who was hired as the chief executive...

Taylor’s boost for local tech SMEs

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There is a massive prize for small Australian tech businesses through changes to Commonwealth ICT procurement being wrought by the Assistant Minister for the Digital Transformation and Cities Angus Taylor....

Doors open for digital opportunity

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Australia’s digital transformation leadership will gather in Canberra on Thursday to explore changes in the Commonwealth’s digital agenda, including a deep-dive look at ICT procurement reform, delivering better government...

Taylor flags tech regime change

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Senior public servants with concerns about how Angus Taylor’s new tech procurement plans will impact their run-of-business ICT operations should know more in the two weeks with the release...

Alexander to lead new DTA unit

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Respected former Treasury CIO Peter Alexander is to be appointed to lead the Digital Transformation Agency’s powerful new whole-of-government ICT program management office, based in Canberra. The appointment returns...

Hazlehurst to front OpenOpp forum

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Industry department deputy secretary David Hazlehurst and the Department of Human Services chief technology officer Charles McHardie have joined the Open Opportunity Forum keynote speaker list in Canberra for...