Tag: Digital Transformation Agency

Angus Taylor on new DTA funding

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency’s $70 million in additional funding includes a substantially expanded cyber security remit and the creation of centralised platform services to complement its governance and standards-setting...

Feds’ massive new photo ID plan

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Attorney General’s Department plans to add as many as 12 million passport photographs to its Face Verification Service this year – one issue prompting calls for a Biometric...

Local, State, Fed digital delivery

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Commonwealth will unveil the ‘live’ pilot of a digital service that lets users complete end-to-end approvals transactions across all three levels of government through a single portal for...

New DTA to link with Data61

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Newly-appointed Digital Transformation Agency chief executive Gavin Slater – an ex-banker from Melbourne – will be spending plenty of time in airports in the coming months as the governments...

Identity remains the digital key

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Government’s GovPass digital identity system will be firmly opt-in – citizens who don’t wish to use the streamlined platform and its biometric component won’t have to. According to...

Labor calls for gov’t tech review

Posted on   |  by James Riley
On digital transformation in government, bipartisanship has left the building. The Federal Opposition is calling for an independent, arms-length review of the government digital transformation efforts and its growing...

Public sector ICT is raining money

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It’s Christmas come early if you are a technology supplier to the Australian Government, with spending on ICT increasing by 50 per cent to $9 billion in the last...

Biometrics back on DTA agenda

Posted on   |  by Beverley Head
The Federal Government is running a private beta of its digital identity platform ahead of a planned public test early next year. To use the service, people will need...

Thodey review of PM&C queried

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Shadow Minister for the Digital Economy Ed Husic has called for the public release of a little-known review of federal government digital transformation efforts that ultimately led to the radical restructure of...