Oz updates ICT plan

ZDNet reports.

AGIMO claims it will drive a co-operative IT environment across federal government agencies to offer personalised services to individual citizens.

Australian government CIO Ann Steward points out that the second version of the draft strategy had been produced following input to a workshop conducted by the Secretaries' ICT Governance Board with advice from Ian Reinecke, iTWire states.

Reinecke says the ICT Strategic Vision "would benefit from a fuller account of the scope and influence of other major government projects, in particular that of the National Broadband Network.

“There also needs to be stronger recognition of the role of transformational projects involving several agencies in achieving the extent of cultural changes required for process and service redesign.”

Reinecke had been tasked with assessing the outcomes of a set of ICT reforms suggested by Peter Gershon, with an aim of saving $1 billion over five years, IT News says.

Reinecke urged the government to establish a “dedicated ICT policy unit”, headed by Steward, to support the Secretaries ICT Governance Board.