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It’s been a big week at the intersect of computers and government; the NSW minister for digital government will retire at the end of his term,...
Prepares to decommission legacy platform.
By Justin Hendry on Aug 3, 2021 12:41PM Lights out for Notify.com.au. The Digital Transformation Agency has quietly killed off the last of four Turnbull era whole-of-government pilot platforms, as work ramps up on the $200 million-plus myGov portal rebuild. In 2017, the agency was funded to the tune of $33.5 million through the Commonwealth public service modernisation fund to develop a pilot set of reusable government-wide platforms over three years. The platforms, offering tell us once, notifications and payments functionality, were pitched as a blu...
By Justin Hendry on Apr 28, 2021 12:36PM In Defence, Home Affairs and Services Australia. The federal government will establish three ‘cyber hub’ pilots in some of Canberra’s largest IT shops to provide cyber security services to agencies with fewer resources. Employment minister Stuart Robert revealed the step change in government cyber policy during his keynote to the Australian Financial Review Government Summit on Wednesday. He said the hubs will allow “leading agencies such as Defence, Home Affairs and Services Australia” to provide s...
By Justin Hendry on Feb 11, 2021 1:21PM Joins three-strong vendor panel. Deloitte has been named the first systems integrator on a multi-vendor panel arrangement that will be used to develop the next stage of the government’s Facebook-inspired son-of-myGov platform. The digital arm of the consulting giant, Deloitte Digital, was appointed to the panel alongside two other system integrators (SIs) in late 2020, with initial integration work now underway. It comes nine months after the Digital Transformation Agency went looking for system integrators to...