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• NSW launches MyServiceNSW

  New South Wales today unveiled its new single customer account for accessing state government services.

• ​NSW Health on the hunt for tech interns

  NSW Health is offering internships in ICT architecture and information security under a partnership with the ACS Foundation.
  

• NSW government finally gets serious about data sharing

  NSW Minister for Innovation, Victor Dominello, has made data sharing between government agencies a key focus in the final update to the state’s ICT strategy, promising that problem solving and policy development will no longer be done in silos.

• ​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 to see Australia's first government data analytics centre

  The New South Wales Government has announced plans to establish Australia’s first whole-of-government data analytics centre to limit bureaucracy and improve regulation and innovation efforts.

• NSW Budget: $100M for police technology

  The NSW government will spend $100 million over four years to equip police with new technology, under measures announced in Tuesday’s budget.
  

• 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 government vows to invest $300M in e-health

  The Baird government has vowed to pump $300 million over the next four years into e-health projects if it is re-elected on Saturday.
  

• 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 gov appoints IT consortium to improve password security

  Dataweave, Qubit Consulting, Oracle Australia and NTT Communications have been selected by the New South Wales government to deploy an identity management service, which will manage user accounts and passwords.

• NSW govt to fast-track open data

  The NSW government will fast-track the release of de-identified open data under a new ‘crowdsourcing’ initiative where it is seeking ideas from the community about how to improve service delivery across the state.