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• WA path lab system project management slammed by auditor

  Two years late and $23.7 million over budget, the roll-out of a pathology lab information system by the Western Australia government has been slammed by the state’s auditor general.

• WA government funds ‘ServiceWA’ pilot

  The Western Australian government is funding for a trial of a one-stop-shop for public-facing transactional services, such as licensing and registrar services.

• WA's Office of Digital Government gets $34.7M boost

  The Western Australia Government has announced a multi-million dollar investment in driving change in government ICT strategy, policy and reform agenda, in the public sector.

• 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.​​

• WA government appoints new chief information officer

  The Western Australian government has appointed public sector veteran Greg Italiano as its new chief information officer.

• WA government hopes to address state’s history of cyber woe

  Western Australia’s Office of the Government Chief Information Officer will officially cease operations at the end of June. The OGCIO is being transformed into the Office of Digital Government, which will be a discrete business unit sitting within the Department of the Premier and Cabinet.

• Pawsey Supercomputing Centre appoints new executive director

  The position became vacant in November last year after a leadership shake-up at the high-performance computing facility saw Neil Stringfellow leave the role.

• AFG seeks new CIO as transformational Vogel departs

  Australian Finance Group (AFG), one of the country’s largest mortgage broking groups, is seeking a new chief information officer to replace the departing Jaime Vogel.

• WA govt reviews security systems after malware threat

  State audit highlights serious malware infections in at least two government agencies.

• WA mega port seeks first CIO

  ​Fremantle Ports, the WA government trading enterprise that manages the state’s largest container and cargo port, is seeking a chief information officer in a newly created role.

• WA auditor general considers 'naming and shaming' agencies into improving IT systems

  WA’s exasperated auditor general is seeking advice on whether "the naming of high-risk agencies is necessary in order to achieve essential change".

• WA confirms first whole of government CIO

  ​Western Australia has appointed Giles Nunis as its first ever government CIO in a push to develop the state government's ICT strategy and cut costs.

• WA looks to cut IT costs with state budget

  Approximately $110 million will be cut from the ICT budgets of a range of Western Australia government departments and agencies, with the state government looking to put $25 million of the savings into an ICT Renewal and Reform fund.

• Perth mayor drills down on big data

  The Lord Mayor of Perth has embraced big data to help the city better plan for population growth and make smarter infrastructure decisions.

• Fiona Stanley IAM project has failed: WA audit

  An identity access management (IAM) project for the Fiona Stanley Hospital in Western Australia has failed due to poor management, according to a government audit.