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Don Punch on WA’s innovation priorities

Western Australia’s new Innovation Minister Don Punch wants more IP kept in the state, government services reshaped around citizen needs, and to grow the local ICT sector through state...

Govt technology procurement is a ‘vulnerability’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The procurement process is a key point of weakness in the government’s development and use of emerging technologies, and human rights need to be better considered in this process,...

Local tech gets overlooked by govt again

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has rightly connected the government’s big investment into its digital economy strategy to its program of economic recovery. But it is a lost opportunity if the...

DTA ‘oversight’ kept $66M SAP contract hidden

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The Digital Transformation Agency gave German multinational SAP a contract worth more than $65 million for cloud services in June last year but failed to publish the tender notice...

Tech giants list as SMEs on NSW procurement site

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Global technology companies are listing themselves as small to medium enterprises (SMEs) on the NSW government’s tech procurement platform, raising concerns they may be able to take advantage of...

Procurement policy holds cyber startups back

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s cybersecurity startups have matured to a point where many have global potential. But a lack of support from the federal government in both policy and procurement is holding...

Let’s formalise a ‘Made in Australia’ Office

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Australian companies might be concerned about an increasingly protectionist United States and the spectre of a newly issued Made in America presidential executive order, but the Australian Government is...

A Marketplace milestone that is without meaning

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is important to mark milestones and to celebrate successes. This is how most of us maintain forward momentum in important work. But when the ‘success’ is so lame...

Our SME policy obsession is not working for us

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It might be time for a rethink of Australia’s obsessive focus on small and medium-sized (SME) tech companies in relation to government procurement. The focus should be on Australian...

Local tech misses out on federal opportunities

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Digital Transformation Agency has signed its seventh whole-of-government purchasing agreement with a foreign-headquartered tech giant – this time it is with Oracle – with the expressed aim to...
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