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- NSW Government ICT Strategy 2012
- NSW Department of Finance and Services, May 4, 2012. "Information and communications technology is an everyday tool for almost all our daily transactions and information needs. It allows for innovative approaches to government service delivery and community and industry engagement. The NSW Government ICT Strategy 2012 sets out the first steps to support the public sector to drive better service delivery, greater transparency and better value from investment in ICT...
The NSW Government is putting the citizens at the centre of decision making and transforming the way we provide services. Information and communications technology (ICT) provides the way to better deliver services to residents while at the same time enabling government to be more flexible and efficient in the conduct of its business.
We are committed to making it easier for NSW citizens to interact with government, to harnessing the opportunities provided by ICT to improve government operations, and to developing the ICT industry in NSW..."
- New South Wales - Government Chief Information Office
- Part of the New South Wales Department of Commerce, the office is responsible for development of government-wide information communications and technology strategies in partnership with the CIO Executive Council and NSW Government Agencies.
- NSW Govt appoints Silicon Valley champion
- By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia, May 22nd, 2012. "The NSW Government has appointed an Australian champion for the technology space in Silicon Valley, US..."
- NSW funding encourages new mobile solutions development
- by Peter Dinham. ITWire, Tuesday, 22 May 2012. "The New South Wales Government has released a second round of funding under its Collaborative Solutions program, this time putting up $1 million to encourage development of new mobile solutions for the public sector.
Under the state government's Mobile Government initiative, the NSW Deputy Premier and Minister for Trade and Investment Andrew Stoner, announced at CeBIT today that the funding would be allocated to seven consortiums develop the new mobile solutions..."
- NSW Govt pilots 'elastic infrastructure'
- By Ry Crozier. IT News, May 22, 2012. "Funds consortium to build mobile app hosting platform.
The NSW Government is creating a cloud infrastructure platform that can be used by agencies to host mobile apps and open internal systems to remote access.
The platform, called 'elastic infrastructure', is being developed by a consortium that includes the Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services, OrionVM and Asterism Digital..."
- NSW finalises colossal datacentre consolidation
- Written by Renai LeMay. Delimiter, Wednesday, May 16, 2012. "The New South Wales State Government this week announced the Leighton subsidiary Metronode as the winner of its long-running and wide-ranging datacentre overhaul project, with the company to construct two new substantial facilities which will allow the state to consolidate its IT operations drastically..."
- Optus and NSW Dep. of Education sign $15m contract to improve satellite services
- Students in remote areas will soon be able to video conference, by Stephanie McDonald. Computerworld, 17 May, 2012. "Optus will enhance its satellite services to improve services to students in remote areas in a five-year contract worth an estimated $15 million.
The contract with the NSW Department of Education will improve internet connections for services such as two-way video conferencing and interactive media applications for students..."
- Inside NSW's evolving ICT strategy
- By Liz Tay. IT News, May 11, 2012. "Government to review actions, outcomes annually.
The NSW Government has forgone a concrete roadmap for its newly launched ICT strategy and will instead annually review the 85 actions and outcomes set out last week in a bid to 'evolve' the outcomes over coming years.
The strategy was launched by the NSW Department of Finance and Services last Friday, after 11 months of planning and consultation with agencies and the industry..."
- NSW awards datacentre consolidation deal
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, May 15th, 2012. "A new deal between the NSW Government and Metronode will see over 100 datacentre facilities currently in use by the state consolidated into two datacentres by year's end..."
- NSW govt signs for IP phones
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, May 11th, 2012. "The NSW Government has opted to roll out internet protocol (IP) telephones to the parliament and electoral offices, selecting Samsung Communications and Commander for the work..."
- IT strategy to lead NSW from 'the dark ages'
- Written by Renai LeMay. Delimiter, Monday, May 7, 2012. "New South Wales' Coalition State Government late last week revealed a new and wide-ranging strategy which it said was slated to make it 'the leader in ICT' when it came to public sector service delivery and the development of the state's technology sector as a whole.
The strategy (available in full online) is based on a number of key planks, which all have key deliverables which various NSW State Government agencies will be required to deliver over the next two to three years and beyond. The planks deal with issues ranging from consumer-facing web forms and mobile applications, to the establishment of private cloud computing infrastructure and even a new whole of government social media policy to guide the interactions of public servants through platforms such as Twitter. Broadly, they are..."
- NSW Govt to build IT services catalogue
- By Liz Tay. IT News, May 7, 2012. "Shared services review underway.
NSW will establish a whole-of-government catalogue of business applications, email, productivity and IT infrastructure services under a three-year ICT strategy.
The strategy involves 17 initiatives and 85 actions to be implemented by the end of 2014..."
- NSW Trade to consolidate ERP in the cloud
- By Liz Tay. IT News, April 27, 2012. "To implement software as a service by December.
NSW Trade and Investment will consolidate enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems of nine agencies in the cloud under a high-priority project set to conclude in December.
The so-called transition and consolidation to a single ERP (TCSERP) project follows an April 2011 state government restructure that saw agencies organised into nine department clusters..."
- Uncertain future for NSW shared services
- By Suzanne Tindal, ZDNet Australia, April 17th, 2012. "The NSW Government is currently questioning whether its shared-services organisations BusinessLink and ServiceFirst are delivering good services to government departments for the right price..."
- NSW Govt may scrap IT shared services units
- Written by Renai LeMay. Delmiter, Tuesday, April 17, 2012. "blog According to the Financial Review, the New South Wales Government has indicated it may follow in the footsteps of fellow states Queensland and Western Australia and drastically re-work its IT shared services strategy, in the wake of questionable benefits having flowed from the scheme..."
This category last updated: 23 May 2012