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Gold Coast joins IBM Smarter Cities Challenge fraternity
With five years until the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast City Council is Australia's third city to join IBM's Smarter Cities Challenge program.
[ + ]Hosted ECM solution targets small government agencies
A hosted enterprise content management (ECM) solution from Objective Corporation is hosted in Australia and includes a full suite of document tools.
[ + ]Cloud-based GIS boosts geospatial access, scalability
The public launch of a cloud-based geospatial GIS system from Esri Australia will simplify government agencies' casual access to scalable GIS services.
[ + ]Victorian geospatial gift an abundance of data riches
Geospatial and GIS engineers have gained access to a wealth of data about Victoria after the state government released over 400 new geospatial data sets.
[ + ]Ipswich City Council moves entire data centre into the cloud
Queensland's Ipswich City Council will move all of its IT infrastructure into the cloud through a massive, ambitious outsourcing deal with Data#3.
[ + ]Coalition would combine IT, 80 other procurement panels: report
An elected Coalition government would combine over 80 IT and general procurement panels into a single body to slash overheads and improve accessibility.
[ + ]AGIMO, CeBIT awards recognise government ICT innovation
Announcement of the winners of AGIMO's annual ICT awards have recognised government innovation across a range of categories during 2012.
[ + ]‘Cloud first’ federal government procurement policy launched
Australia's federal government has launched a national Cloud Computing Strategy that mandates a preference for cloud services in procurement of ICT services
[ + ]NEC re-secures Parliamentary Services IT support contract
The Department of Parliamentary Services has extended its IT support services contract with NEC Australia for another three years.
[ + ]Microsoft brings Azure cloud to Australia
Government organisations have a significant new option for cloud-computing services after Microsoft announced it would bring its Windows Azure to Australia.
[ + ]Big projects in IT, other industries fail for same reasons: expert
An industry expert believes big IT projects fail for the same reasons as megaprojects in other industries: expectations are set too high, too early.
[ + ]Budget boosts local-government NBN initiatives
Local governments will get a funding boost for NBN programs as the government's latest budget delivers $5.7m to expand its Digital Local Government program.
[ + ]Misperceptions wrongly keeping government CIOs from cloud computing: Ovum
Government CIOs give too much weight to cloud computing's perceived risks and too little to its benefits and manageable risks, an Ovum analyst has warned.
[ + ]Postcodes no longer spatial gold standard: Brobst
Postcodes are inadequate for the kind of spatial and GIS detail that's necessary to support new GIS and information driven systems, a Teradata expert says.
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