Tag: Martin Parkinson

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...

Where oh where is the DTA?

Posted on   |  by James Riley
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...

Executive orders reveal new DTA

Posted on   |  by Stuart Kennedy
Tectonic plates are shifting inside Canberra’s ICT bureaucracy as the new Digital Transformation Agency ingests large chunks of the Finance Department and metamorphoses into a tech super agency. The...

New detail on ICT procurement

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Updated: Angus Taylor has outlined new details of the Commonwealth’s overhaul of its $5.6 billion annual ICT spend and committed to publishing a discussion paper on the changes from the...

Taylor launches tech super agency

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Turnbull Government has shredded its 15-month-old Plan A for digital service delivery, with a dramatic restructuring of the Digital Transformation Office into a new tech super-agency that has...

Parkinson on our innovation issues

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Martin Parkinson’s speech to CEDA’s State of the Nation conference dinner demonstrated how wise Malcolm Turnbull was to bring back to the public service someone capable of understanding so...

Former Sherpa takes Comms role

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The senior public servant who coordinated the delivery of the Malcolm Turnbull whole of government innovation strategy, Heather Smith, has been appointed as the new secretary of the Department...