Government organisations want to embrace cloud but are struggling to develop the ICT capabilities to make it happen, Ovum says, advocating slow and steady.

A council of major US companies has pushed the government for greater information-sharing legislation to improve public-private cyber security cooperation.

Companies considering cloud computing must develop short-term business goals that dovetail with long-term cloud strategies to ensure business buy-in.

Government organisations considering a move to cloud computing must ensure their internal organisations are agile enough to capitalise on the new paradigm.

Crowd-sourcing offers a flood of new data for governments and citizens alike – but without a bit of creativity, realising its benefits may be elusive.

Organisations moving towards a cloud-computing infrastructure must ensure they have clear buy-in from business stakeholders that may not be ready to learn.

Government ICT spend will grow slowly through 2015, but net increase masks productivity benefits of cloud, mobility, big data, and social-media spending.

The Australian government's peak ICT strategy organisation, AGIMO, will undergo a major reorganisation to refocus itself around whole-of-government policy.

The push towards cloud computing will drive government bodies to embrace the model, Telstra's head of enterprise and government business has predicted.

Research In Motion's make-or-break BlackBerry 10 operating system won a reprieve from US Customs, suggesting the new mobile platform is not dead just yet.

Australian Industry Participation (AIP) plans

Governments need good ICT more than ever to boost productivity – but reports into project management performance suggest they're letting themselves down.

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 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

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.