New report here: Coalition pushes IT governance to highest office itNews http://www.itnews.com.au/News/355357,coalition-pushes-it-governance-to-the-highest-office.aspx
The policy (dated August 2013) is available here: http://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/assets/Coalitions_Policy_for_E-Government_and_the_Digital_Economy_(2).pdf There is another one, dated September 2013 here. http://lpaweb-static.s3.amazonaws.com/Coalition%27s%20Policy%20for%20E-Government%20and%20the%20Digital%20Economy.pdf <quote> Policy Measures We will provide leadership on the digital economy, make more effective use of ICT in departments and agencies and ensure more convenient Government services are accessible anytime anywhere with policies to: • accelerate the digital economy by working with the private sector to coordinate enabling infrastructure such as online identity, digital mail and payment systems; • accelerate Government 2.0 efforts to engage online, make agencies transparent and provide expanded access to useful public sector data; • reduce the cost of government ICT by eliminating duplication and fragmentation. Government will lead by example in using ICT to reduce costs, lift productivity and develop better services. Light user agencies with insufficient IT scale will move to shared or cloud solutions. Heavy user agencies with complex needs will retain autonomy but improve accountability; • create a better model for achieving whole-of-government ICT goals that acknowledges the decentralised Australian Public Service and differences in scale and capabilities across agencies; and </quote> And, yes, the last bullet point ends with "and". It looks as though they removed a bullet point and forgot to reformat it. Or it might just be a matter of re-ordering. A lot of the policy is same-old-same-old initiatives that have failed in the past. The thought of putting PM&C in a central decision making role is fraught with danger. If any part of government policy should be evidence driven it's the use of ICT. Many of the shortcomings of government ICT are due to a lack of understanding by politicians of what it takes to develop good Information Systems. These politicians set unrealistic deadlines and funding arrangements and then complain when IT departments can't deliver. Projects fail to deliver on time and in budget, not because of problems in deliovery, but because the estimates were wrong. Putting a political office in charge is likely to just make things worse. And the assumption that "light user agencies with insufficient IT scale (can) move to shared or cloud solutions" is naive. I know, I've done the research. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia email: [email protected] web: www.drbrd.com web: www.problemsfirst.com Blog: www.problemsfirst.com/blog _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
