An IT audit needs to proactively assess emerging risks if it is to remain relevant, provide value to government agencies and protect against the most significant risks public sector organisations face. [ + ]

The government has signed an agreement allowing it to use real-time, high-detail satellite imagery from the EU's earth observation and monitoring program, Copernicus. [ + ]

The newly merged Department of Immigration and Border Protection has handed Optus Business a three-year contract to integrate the formerly separate communications networks of the departments of Customs and Immigration. [ + ]

The combination of body worn video and private-sector cloud-based software services is transforming safety agencies' ability to focus on their core missions.

Australia has many digital transformation initiatives, but the challenge is to get them all moving in the same speed and direction, industry experts say. [ + ]

In a bid to encourage more tech start-ups to establish and remain in Sydney, the city has produced an action plan that includes a dedicated entrepreneurship centre. [ + ]

Government agencies are being mandated to transition to greater digital engagement and GovInnovate Summit 2015 is the must-attend event to help them achieve that goal. [ + ]

Capgemini has completed an implementation of Guidewire InsuranceSuite over Amazon Web Services for NSW Government agency SICorp, the state's home warranty protection provider. [ + ]

At the same time as the airwaves are become increasingly crowded, so too is the emergency services' growing need for mobile data becoming acute. [ + ]

The federal government has committed $490,000 towards an R&D project to apply cloud and big data technologies to sheep data management systems. [ + ]

SAP has teamed up with five foundation partners including the NDIA to establish an institute focused on researching ways to transform the business of government through digital technologies. [ + ]

Just 27% of Australian public sector respondents to a Deloitte survey are confident in their readiness to respond to digital trends. [ + ]

A lack of government investment in data consolidation, analytics and public safety radio spectrum is hindering the modernisation of policing in Australia, says the Police Federation. [ + ]

In Canada's British Columbia, ministers and political staff have been told not to delete emails in response to a report highly critical of a lack of transparency in government communications. [ + ]

As the federal government's digital transformation effort builds steam, we sought the insights of IT industry experts to see what the public sector can learn from similar projects in the private sector. [ + ]