Oz public sector eyes ICT

Research released by Telstra reveals the Australian public sector has high expectations of ICT-enabled productivity growth, but only two in five government organisations can quantify productivity gains, states Reverse PR.

Over three quarters 77% of Australian government organisations expect to see improvements in productivity over the next 12 months, with many placing a high priority on ICT investment to drive productivity gains.

The federal minister for Finance and Deregulation, Lindsay Tanner, says a key challenge for government is ensuring it continues to gain the benefits of ICT by focusing investment on areas that deliver real benefits and enabling more effective outcomes and reducing inefficiency.

Etihad Etisalat, Saudi Arabia's telecommunication operator, and Orange Business Services are rolling out next-generation ICT management services to the real estate market in Saudia Arabia, reports Saudi Gazette.

Etihad Etislat, also known as Mobily, is set to provide telecom, data, and smart ICT e-services with commercial business models to developers and partners in the sector.

“We are excited to be working with Orange Business Services to lead developments for the Saudi market,” says Dr Eyas Al-Hajery, Mobily senior vice-president of wholesale: “We anticipate rapid growth in real estate communities and economic cities.”

IT services company, The Frame Group, has completed a 20-year ICT infrastructure management plan for Melbourne Airport, to improve performance, reduce capital and enable new passenger services, says ITWire.

APAC is identifying how ICT can best support the airport's 20-year capital development plan, and that, while security, reliability and scalability are natural concerns for the airport, other requirements of the plan included compliance with global standards, cost containment, and risk management and mitigation.

APAC's Melbourne Airport IT manager, Mark Funston, says: “The model supports the organisation's desire to consolidate and centralise business functions. And with the accompanying financial model, the airport is able to attribute costs to services and to normalise capital expenditure with operations expenditure.”