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• Jobs up for grabs: MTIA seeks CIO for newly created role

  The Major Transport Infrastructure Authority (MTIA) is seeking an experienced chief information officer for a newly created position within the Office of the Director-General.

• 4 senior IT posts up for grabs from healthcare to financial services

  In the wake of Hamish Cameron’s departure as the inaugural CIO of the Department for Child Protection (DCP), the South Australian government's DCP is seeking its second CIO.

• WA Department of Finance to fast-track agencies to public cloud

  ​Western Australia's Department of Finance will help a number of the state government's agencies move to the public cloud following its own successful move to Microsoft Azure.​​

• Australia goes ‘green’ over Irish contracts worth $10m

  More than $10 million in new Australian contracts including investments in ICT and emerging technologies - along with a new Melbourne office for Enterprise Ireland - has been announced as part of a Trade Mission from Ireland.

• Updated: Industry dissects rollout of data breach laws in Australia

  Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) CEO Robert Fitzpatrick welcomes today’s rollout of the Australian Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) legislation which makes big changes to the Privacy Act.

• Updated: Kylie Towie exits WA Health

  ​WA Health’s Kylie Towie, acting chief executive and CIO of Health Support Services (HSS), is leaving the organisation after 18 months at the helm.

• Human Services seeks STEM grads for CIO scheme

  ​The Department of Human Services (DHS) is offering university graduates with STEM skills places on a six month IT career development scheme.

• Government outlines Australia’s IT procurement future

  Assistant Minister for Digital Transformation, Angus Taylor, suggests that a future platform for Australia’s IT procurement system should be able to “ingest and provide technology".

• Exclusive: City of Monash leaps towards virtualisation and cloud

  The City of Monash has embarked on a massive transformation project to upgrade its entire IT environment in a push towards virtualisation and the cloud.
  

• CIO50 takes shape, community gets nominating

  As the nomination clock counts down to its August 15 deadline, CIO Australia is encouraging ICT leaders to be part of the inaugural launch year of the CIO50 in order to tell their stories of business transformation, innovation and leadership.

• Queensland Budget puts ICT works on the agenda

  ​The Queensland Government has allocated funds for a number of IT projects across various agencies and departments, including health and emergency services, considered key technology plans outlined in the state’s 2016-2017 Budget.

• Industry snapshot: Farid Jarrar a CIO at the forefront of the contact centre evolution

  Stellar CIO Farid Jarrar says there’s been “monumental change” in the contact centre world in the past two years, a top challenge yet rewarding task for him as CIO leading the company’s internal and external stakeholders towards significant transformation.

• Gavin Fernandes exits CTO post at QLD Electoral Commission

  ​With the Electoral Commission of Queensland moving into ‘peacetime’ mode and redirecting energy to other strategic projects, CTO Gavin Fernandes is getting set to leave the intensely “rewarding and daunting” position he held for the past 18 months.

• ​NZ government to deliver an ‘Amazon-style’ experience for citizens

  NZ government CIO, Colin MacDonald, has vowed to digitise 70 per cent of common transactions across agencies by 2017, delivering an ‘Amazon-style’ experience to citizens accessing services.
  

• Government ICT spend to reach $6.2 billion by 2018

  Australian Government ICT spending is set to reach $6.2 billion by 2018, with 1.7 per cent five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) by 2017, according to IDC research. ICT spend is the largest category for government spend, and has become a central theme in state government service transformation roadmaps.