In Brief: Community organisations get minimal IT handouts
The Federal Government has pledged to provide $1.8 million in grants to community organisations across the country to upgrade IT systems.
The Federal Government has pledged to provide $1.8 million in grants to community organisations across the country to upgrade IT systems.
The Department of Parliamentary Services (DPS) is to establish a panel for the supply of servers as part of an ongoing server consolidation and migration to a virtualised environment project.
Western Power will start rolling out smart meters to nearly 9000 homes in Perth’s eastern suburbs in this year as part of a new $15 million, three-year trial.
Search engines have reported a massive spike in political-themed searches beginning late Wednesday when Julia Gillard requested a leadership ballot from then Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd.
The Western Australia Government has moved to give itself the upper hand in its negotiations with the Federal Government and NBN Co on the roll out of the National Broadband Network in its state.
The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is claiming a win for ICT suppliers into Federal Government, announcing they will be able to retain the intellectual property rights for software they develop under contract with agencies.
The real social media work in Federal Government will come from agencies and public servants rather than high-level bureaucrats, according to author of the Government 2.0 Taskforce report.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is touting its new 400 MHz spectrum recommendations as a means to dramatically increase essential and emergency service interoperability within state and federal government agencies.
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) will upgrade its financial management and HR applications before the end of 2010 and has gone to market for the supply of software and support services.
The Federal Government has appointed Don Easter as its new IT Supplier Advocate in a bid to help local SME technology companies gain better access to the government IT procurement market.
The Australian Federal Government has announced a whole-of-government data centre strategy which will govern procurement and consolidation of existing and new data centres for all Federal Government departments over the next 15 years.
The Federal Government’s Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment Bill 2009 has passed the Senate, widening the range of options for private entities to protect their IT networks from cyber attack.
Will spend up to $400 million over the course of the panel on PCs, notebooks, monitors and services
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced four additional winning projects as part of the government's Digital Regions Initiative.
The federal government has called for responses on how best to cash-in on analogue spectrum following the digital television switchover in 2013.