Tag: Lucy Poole

Super-department abandons SAP in $39m ERP shift

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
One of Canberra’s biggest departments will leap from SAP to Workday and ServiceNow in a $39 million enterprise resource planning shift to be delivered by Accenture over the next...

APS tech leaders tapped for AI oversight committee

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Some of the most senior technology figures within the Australian Public Service have been tapped to sit on a new AI oversight body, adding another accountability layer to the...

Government AI agents add risk of ‘cascading’ errors

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Government agencies have been warned to keep humans in the loop and carefully plan their rollouts of agentic artificial intelligence to mitigate risks of “cascading errors” and “uncontrolled” executions...

DTA in AI hiring spree after funding boost

Posted on   |  by David Allen
A federal agency leading the government’s AI rollout across the public service has begun building its AI workforce after securing funding late last year to support its growing mandate....

Feds mandate cloud-first approach as legacy tech costs soar

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal agencies have been told to go cloud-first on all new digital projects and minimise vendor lock-in where possible under the first major revamp of the government’s cloud policy...

DTA flags AI ‘PoC hell’ as emerging APS risk

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal government agencies may have barely scratched the surface with artificial intelligence, but those that have are increasingly finding themselves trapped in a cycle of endless proof of concept...

Canberra’s AI transparency laggards fall in line

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Federal government agencies that missed a key AI transparency deadline earlier this year have now largely fallen into line, with just two mandatory declarations still outstanding across the public...

Dozens of agencies miss major AI transparency deadline

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Almost forty per cent of federal government agencies duty-bound to produce an AI transparency statement have missed the February filing deadline, in a blow to Canberra’s efforts to build...