The federal government's funding hike in response to a "complex security environment" will see the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) appoint its first CIO this year with applications closing at the end of the month.
Moving on from the dramas that surrounded the cargo management re-engineering (CMR) software project, Australian Customs Service CIO Murray Harrison is embarking on an in-house identity management project, which he describes as a "world first".
Nearly three years after the Victorian government announced project Rosetta - a unified identity management infrastructure - nine departments will join the Department of Justice in the next few months in using the system.
Aggregating voice and data services under a new Common Use Arrangement (CUA) is projected to save government agencies in Western Australia up to $14.6 million a year with potential savings of $30 million.
The Northern Territory government's recently announced $150 million desktop services contract with Fujitsu over incumbent CSC is an example of how competition can drive value, according to the department's project director for corporate and information services, Brad Irvine.
With an annual spend of around $150 million on PCs, notebooks and servers, the NSW government is polishing up its guidelines for replacing five-year-old contracts which expire in October.
With a desire to streamline its IT operations, the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) has started an integration project across a number of systems including a Linux database cluster.
While government departments in the Eastern states grapple with ways to promote technology adoption among young people, Western Australia's Department of Industry and Resources (DOIR) has stopped talking and taken IT trucking.
In addition to welcoming in the 2006 school year, the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) began operating its new network analytics software last week, which is set to service some 2600 sites and 1.3 million users.
The federal Attorney General's Department has slashed software spending by 18 percent a year following a widespread review of existing contracts.
A former CIO has scorned the cost and service levels offered by the multinational IT consulting firms, labelling them "bloodsuckers".
In what is believed to be the largest open source project ever developed in Australia, Victoria's Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) has spent the past two years and $1.2 million on a new content portal which will go live early next year.
Faced with the resource drain of managing 20 servers with direct attached storage, Coffs Harbour City Council on the NSW mid-north coast has consolidated its infrastructure via SAN virtualization.
With the unenviable responsibility for housing potentially petabytes of government information that's both public and 'private', the National Archives of Australia (NAA) in Canberra is set to launch its digital archiving service on new infrastructure.
XML may be seen as the holy grail of information interoperability, but the NSW government's experience with the technology warns of how the information silos of yesteryear can be repeated.