Tag: DTA

DTA remain an independent agency

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency will remain an independent agency but has been moved under the remit of the new Services Australia department, a rebadged Department of Human Services. The...

Services Australia fizzles to life

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Services Australia sputtered to life on Thursday, not as an artful clone of the highly successful NSW delivery agency Service NSW, but as a simply re-named Department of Human...

Shetler’s digital plan for ScoMo

Posted on   |  by Paul Shetler
The newly-elected Coalition government has a tremendous opportunity to make a few serious and fundamental changes to the Commonwealth’s structures, processes and capabilities to enable the delivery of world-class...

Sovereign capability and the DTA

Posted on   |  by James Riley
What will Prime Minister Scott Morrison do with the Digital Transformation Agency, the forgotten child of the Commonwealth? The DTA has been many things to many people in the...

DTA on the hunt for a CIO

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency is on the hunt for a chief information officer as it prepares for an “exciting period of development and change”. The role will not be...

DTA dumps on blockchain, again 

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency only used a small amount of its allocated funding to investigate the use of blockchain to deliver government services, and will not produce a roadmap...

Data sovereignty policy arrives

Posted on   |  by Aimee Chanthadavong
The Australian government quietly introduced on Friday afternoon a whole-of-government data hosting strategy to address immediate issues around risks to data sovereignty, data centre ownership and the supply chain....

Govt names data advisory board

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government has formed a data advisory group to help it find the “right balance” in making data available to departments while upholding privacy and confidentiality. The National...

Marketplace to get digital makeover

Posted on   |  by James Riley
A rethink of the federal government’s digital marketplace will be a first order priority for an incoming Labor administration in order to bolster success rates for local tech SME’s...