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Victorian ombudsman fires an ICT distress flare
Governments need good ICT more than ever to boost productivity – but reports into project management performance suggest they're letting themselves down.
[ + ]Infor courts councils with cloud-hosted public sector suite
Infor has released a cloud-hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its public sector applications suite in order to woo cost-conscious councils.
[ + ]Telstra boosts local cloud commitment with four new data centres
Telstra will add four new data centres to its network in order to better address government and large enterprise concerns over the sovereignty of cloud data
[ + ]Transparency bites
Vivek Kundra's stint as the first CIO of the US fundamentally changed a project-management and strategy culture with little order and no accountability.
[ + ]Australian orgs lead West, lag second world on BYOD
Australian organisations are more permissive on BYOD than their Western peers but still lag behind developing countries, Ovum-Logicalis research says
[ + ]Rich-Phillips charts Victorian ICT strategy revamp
Victoria's IT minister has outlined his plans to bring Victoria's ICT strategy under control and refocus a public sector rocked by the CeniTex scandal.
[ + ]Can AGIMO guide government into the cloud?
AGIMO guidance has provided firm guidelines for government organisations charting their adoption of cloud-computing resources. But what does it say?
[ + ]Council wins confirm mobiles reshaping data entry
Council staff are increasingly using mobiles to enter information and photographs from the field, saving time and money for resource-constrained councils.
[ + ]How to make your meetings work better
Rob Weddepohl of Dimension Data shares tips on how to make meetings run smoother and ensure that meeting spaces encourage collaboration.
[ + ]Emergency response gets SES on board
Geelong's State Emergency Service is using Panasonic interactive whiteboards to improve collaboration and information sharing during meetings.
[ + ]Meet me halfway
Teleworking and natural advances in technology have changed the definition of what a 'meeting' is. We look at tech to help employees work together better.
[ + ]Big-app demands will drive government to cloud: Amazon
New Australian cloud platforms will encourage government bodies to iteratively build, test and deploy larger applications, AWS public-sector head predicts.
[ + ]US government teleworking more than private industry: US ambassador
Telework policies have been so popular amongst US government agencies that the public sector has more telecommuters, per capita, than the private sector.
[ + ]Mobiles, mobile security to dominate IT priorities in 2013
Ever more-determined hackers and strong growth in IT spending, predominantly on PCs and mobile devices, will make mobile security a key priority in 2013.
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