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• NSW Budget: Govt dishes $100m for Digital Restart Fund

  The NSW government has earmarked $100 million over the next two years for a ‘Digital Restart Fund’ that it says will help fuel digital transformation across whole-of-government.

• EXCLUSIVE: Digital licences set to go live by mid-August

  Australian licences will go digital from mid-August and NSW is first off the rank, sources close to the government have confirmed.

• ​NSW govt agencies rolling out Microsoft cloud

  More than 130,000 NSW government staff will be using Microsoft cloud, mobility and collaborative products, following a new agreement with the software giant.
  

• NSW govt outsources ServiceFirst functions

  The NSW government has signed a $215 million IT outsourcing deal with Infosys and Unisys, replacing the functions of its in-house shared services provider ServiceFirst.
  

• Millennials have no patience for inefficient, stodgy governments: Perrottet

  Tech savvy and distrusting millennials, people born between 1980 and 2000, will not tolerate governments that still inhabit an analogue world, NSW finance minister, Dominic Perrottet, said in his opening CeBIT keynote speech on Tuesday morning.
  

• Service NSW to improve payment services

  The NSW government will roll out a platform by the year’s end that will support PayPal and new payment types such as MasterPass, VisaCheckout, and Apple Pay when it becomes available in Australia.
  

• NSW govt commences talks with Infosys, Unisys for shared services

  The NSW government has established a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Infosys and Unisys to progress detailed discussions for both companies to provide shared ICT services to agencies.
  

• NSW government attracts SMEs for procurement

  More than 1000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have registered for the ICT Services Scheme in New South Wales, the NSW government has revealed.

• NSW govt calls for outside help on open data

  The NSW government is calling on the private sector to suggest new ways to reuse or reinterpret data held by its agencies under a newly established crowdsourcing initiative.
  

• NSW govt touts ERP as-a-service

  The NSW government claims it will make it easier for technology suppliers to provide enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to agencies as part of its procurement reforms.
  

• Updated: NSW govt opens door to startups

  The NSW government is asking startups to bid for short-term contracts worth up to $250,000 in a reform of ICT procurement policy.