Tasmania - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about egovernment activities in Tasmania.
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e-Government Articles - Tasmania - Archive
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Archived articles about e-Government activities in Tasmania.
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e-Government Resources - Tasmania - Archive
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Archived resources about e-Government activities in Tasmania.
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Service Tasmania - Serve You Right, Melbourne, September 2011
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Paper presented by Ross Hinkley, Assistant Director, Service Tasmania, at the Serve You Right Conference, Melbourne, September 15-16, 2011. The paper provides an overview of the user-friendly service that links customers to an array of government information and services.
- Tas schools, govt access NBN via Aurora
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet Australia, August 8, 2011. "Tasmanian utility Aurora Energy has been picked to provide internet services to Tasmanian schools and government on the National Broadband Network (NBN), following a month of controversy over the deployment of internet in the region.
Tasmanian Education Minister Nick McKim said Aurora would start providing services to government schools in the NBN first release sites of Smithton and Scottsdale in the next six weeks..."
- Tasmanian govt media office hacked
- By Luke Hopewell, ZDNet Australia, July 21, 2011. "The media office of the Tasmanian Government has this morning been taken offline after a hacker group calling itself Satanic Souls planted its flag in the government's press release system..."
- NBN stage two begins in Tasmania
- From: AAP. AustralianIT, June 30, 2011. "Construction on the second phase of the $35.9 billion National Broadband Network has begun in Tasmania.
Three towns on the Apple Isle last year became the first locations to be plugged into the network in its initial stage..."
- Conroy vows Tassie schools will be on NBN
- By Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia, June 16, 2011. "The Office of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has reaffirmed the government's commitment to bringing the National Broadband Network (NBN) to Tasmanian schools, following news that schools in the early stage roll-out zones in Tasmania do not have their NBN fibre switched on a year after it was connected..."
- Tassie schools still not on NBN
- By Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia, June 15, 2011. "Almost a year after the National Broadband Network (NBN) was officially switched on in Tasmania, the State Government has been forced to concede that no public school in the early stage release towns of Scottsdale, Midway Point and Smithton have been connected to the high-speed fibre internet service that the project offers..."
- Tasmanian Health Dept sick of paper shuffling
- Statewide occupational health record information system will migrate thousands of paper records to digital, by Tim Lohman. Computerworld, 19 May, 2011. "The Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is moving to cut the voluminous paper records required to monitor the health and safety of its employees via the rollout of a statewide occupational health record information system..."
- Tasmania extends ICT hardware panel
- Additional two years added to ICT contract worth more than $17 million annually. Computerworld, 3 May, 2011. "The Tasmanian Government has extended its whole of government ICT hardware panel for two years and is seeking to add additional suppliers to the arrangement which commenced in April 2009..."
- Tasmanian ICT centre gains $50 million funding
- Federal Government, CSIRO make joint $40 million committment. Computerworld, 2 May, 2011. "The Federal Government has committed $20 million to the Tasmanian ICT Centre, forming part of a $50 commitment that will ensure the centre's survival for five years and introduce further research into broadband-based applications...
The funding will also be used to establish a node of the Australian Centre for Broadband Innovation (ACBI), first launched between the CSIRO and National ICT Australia last year to co-develop applications utilising high-speed broadband and particularly the National Broadband Network..."
- Tasmanian towns trial NBN fibre extension
- Updated: Councils offer to pay for fibre extension to towns left out of fibre footprint, by James Hutchinson (Computerworld). CIO, 29 April, 2011. "The seven stage 2 National Broadband Network sites in Tasmania will be first to trial a community-funded extension of the fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) footprint beyond the 93 per cent currently mandated by government..."
- Tassie outs $17m PC tender
- By Marina Freri, ZDNet Australia, April 13, 2011. "The Tasmanian Treasury has issued a request for tenders on behalf of the Tasmanian Government for a $17 million information, communication and technology hardware contract that will provide new end-user equipment to government offices across the state..."
- ICT council to reassess Tasmanian development
- $1 million in funding up for grabs as treasury assigns ICT leaders directive of state's digital future, by James Hutchinson. Computerworld, 11 February, 2011. "A council of Tasmanian ICT leaders will meet next month to reassess government approach to IT development in the financially troubled state, with expectations its members will focus heavily on economic advantages to be gained from the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout there..."
- Tasmanian Government to upgrade data centres
- Current setup over capacity, by Hamish Barwick - Computerworld. CIO, 20 December 2010. "The Tasmanian Government is set to close one data centre and tender for a new facility as its current setup is over capacity. Department documents state that the majority of government equipment and data storage is located in small server rooms throughout various agency buildings. It also operates two small data centres, but these are both at capacity..."
- Tasmania flags telco contract overhaul
- By Renai LeMay. ITWire, Tuesday, 2 November 2010. "The Tasmanian State Government has lifted the lid on a major overhaul of the way it buys voice and mobile telecommunications services, in an initiative which could see other providers take more of the telco spending pie it currently mainly allocates to Telstra..."
- Tassie to make its NBN opt-out
- By Renai LeMay, ZDNet Australia, October 6, 2010. "The Tasmanian Government has announced plans to mandate an "opt-out" model for the National Broadband Network roll-out in the state — meaning that all premises will be hooked up to the infrastructure unless they explicitly choose not to be..."
- iPad trials hit Tasmanian schools
- DET trialing 30 of the mobile devices across the state's schools, by Jenna Pitcher. Computerworld, 28 September, 2010. "The Tasmanian Department of Education and Training has revealed over 30 iPads are being trialled in a number of schools across the state, with plans in the works to also examine the potential for Android- and Windows-based tablets to be used as an education device..."
This category last updated: 23 September 2011