Deloitte was the only supplier approached for a major overhaul of the myGov platform that has netted the consulting giant more than $45 million so far, a scathing audit...
The government agency responsible for outsourcing the development of the failed COVIDSafe app did not monitor the developer’s performance or consider value for money as the contract more than...
In 2018, the then-Minister for Digital Transformation Michael Keenan announced a wide-ranging five-year whole-of-government contract with IBM. With an estimated contract value of $1 billion, this contract has recently...
Digital transformation in the public sector is being hindered by “lingering” legacy technologies and technical debt, with agencies unable to make progress due to a funding shortfall and backward...
IBM’s government-wide sourcing deal has ballooned to more than $2 billion, double what it was slated to cost over five years in 2018, as negotiations begin on the next...
Responsibility for the Digital Transformation Agency will go to the Department of Finance in the new Labor government, while oversight of the Digital Economy previously held by Senator Jane...
The first article in the series ‘Defending the NDIS’, looked at the horrific complexity caused by the actuarial fiction of ‘primary disability’. The second article zeroed in on the...
US tech giant AWS has had its whole-of-government sourcing deal extended and “enhanced”, after the value of its previous deal ballooned in value by more than 10 times to...
The digital transformation of government has proven difficult for Australia, particularly at the federal level. While some of the states are having some success, the federal government seems stalled,...
In the shadow of an imminent election, this year’s federal budget included some welcome investments for Australian innovation ecosystem, but didn’t go far enough, according to a panel of...