With the change in Prime Minister to Malcolm Turnbull there was always likely to be a shift in the prominence of digital and IT within government. The new administrative arrangements released earlier this week demonstrated this clearly, with the Digital Transition Office moving from the Communications portfolio to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet…
Alun Probert (formerly of NSW government) has written a good piece on how sometime digital decisions are simply good business. I think he’s spot on about this, and about the danger of treating digital as a silver bullet. Government is in the business of achieving great outcomes for society. Any government who fails to keep…
Australia’s Digital Transition Office (DTO) has finally lifted the covers on the personnel it’s seeking to hire to fulfil its ambitious transformation agenda. However, unlike traditional APS hiring, the DTO’s positions vacant use modern corporate job titles and each job description clearly and in detail explains what applicants will be expected to do in the role. There’s…
Last week the Digital Transition Office (DTO) released a draft of its API Design Guide for public review. An API, or Application Programming Interface, is an approach that defines consistent methods of inputting and outputting data into a software system based on internet protocols. APIs are regularly used by Web 2.0 services as a standard…
Practically everyone in Australia has followed the entitlements issue triggered by media reports of House of Representatives Speaker, and Liberal politician, Bronwyn Bishop’s helicopter trip from Melbourne to Geelong over the last three weeks. While at times other politicians were reluctant to criticise Bishop’s expenses, on the basis that most politicians spend quite a bit of…
The Mandarin reports that six significant federal agencies are currently seeking permanent Chief Information Officers, while both the ACT government and the Federal government’s Digital Transition Office recently resorted to overseas hires to fill senior leadership roles requiring strong digital backgrounds. Does this signify a shortage of senior digital and ICT talent in Australia (or…
One of the significant news stories in Australia this week is the revelation that Bill Shorten failed to correctly disclose a $40,000 electoral donation in a timely manner – breaching parliamentary requirements. This is far from the first time a politician has done this, with repeated errors in declaring donations an ongoing issue for both…
While I’ve been very tardy at posting this year, due to busyness, significant life and work changes and a general lassitude brought on from blogging for so many years, the Government 2.0 scene in Australia has continued to progress. While some of the faces and names have changed, and the public sector talks more about…
It’s been a tough week to resume blogging about digital government, egovernance and Gov 2.0, with the attention of the media, public, public service and politicians fixed on politics rather than the operations of government. However the nature of government, and of humans in general, is that politics is always a key element in getting…
I’ve had a two month break from blogging over summer due to a range of other things going on in my life. I’ll be getting back into the habit of blogging over the next few weeks to catch up on all the awesome – and not so awesome – things happening in the Gov 2.0…
This archive mirrors the original eGov AU blog — Craig’s professional commentary on AI, digital government and technology in public life, running since 2006.
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