A parliamentary inquiry says during its deliberations it received evidence that key ICT systems of the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) still need to be “significantly improved”.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) and CSIRO’s Data61 division have partnered to develop an app that could be used to impose ‘smart money’ limits on the spending of funds provided through the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).
Over the past few months, two colleagues at Sydney start-up Psykinetic have been engaged in battle.
The National Disability Insurance Agency has begun the hunt for a chief information officer to take charge of IT within the organisation.
The Census is not the only high-profile 2016 government IT failure to have been caused by a confluence of events. A PricewaterhouseCoopers review has concluded that the root cause of a problem with the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s payment portal was “not a single catastrophic event, but rather a series of compounding issues.”
Social services minister Christian Porter says that the IT issues affecting payments to participants in the National Disability Insurance Scheme have largely been resolved.
The government's second budget sets aside $143 million over four years for IT systems to help deliver the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).