Australian govt spends on ICT
Despite recommendations outlined in the 2008 Gershon report to cut back on ICT spending, the Australian Federal Government's ICT market peaked at $5 billion last year, reports Computer World.
Although IT services remained the largest market segment, accounting for $2.45 billion or 56% of the market, it fell 12% on the previous year.
Intermedium managing director, Judy Hurditch, says: “In 2009 to 2010 there was not only a relative lack of new infrastructure outsourcing deals to be won, but a significant number of multi-year systems integration projects also wound down, mostly without any emergent projects to replace them in value, scale or scope.”
Social media merges ICT strategy
Gartner claims the top technologies for CIOs to include in their strategic ICT planning processes over the next few years include social analytics, cloud computing, and mobile, states Public Technology.
Gartner believes that, over the next three years, vendors will start providing packaged private cloud systems, including CRM, based on their own public cloud offerings in order to enable customers to run them internally.
By 2016, the researcher forecasts that social technologies will be integrated into most business applications and will become critical in CIOs' ICT strategies.
Iran develops ICT framework
Isfahan, Iran's second largest city, has set its sights on becoming the Republic's leading e-municipality, says Future Gov.
The ancient city of 1.7 million people, which was once of the world's largest cities, is four years into a five-year ICT master-plan to develop infrastructure and improve citizen services and government processes to boost competitiveness.
The ICT framework plans for the city to roll out public services online through its e-services portal. The city is also underway in a five-year ICT plan to develop infrastructure to improve government services.
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