• U.S. CIO unveils mobile strategy for Federal Government

  By Kenneth Corbin | 13 January, 2012 01:29

  The Obama administration yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas unveiled an ambitious new initiative to remake the way the federal government approaches mobile technology, soliciting ideas from the public for how federal agencies can tap mobile devices and apps to operate more efficiently and better serve citizens.

• Federal Govt flags e-health trial for chronically ill veterans

  By Chloe Herrick | 29 November, 2011 15:34

  The Federal Government has flagged a trial of in-house telemonitoring technology for chronically ill veterans via the National Broadband Network (NBN), kicking off in July 2012.

• Telstra launches bundled telehealth for rural and regional patients

  By Chloe Herrick | 23 November, 2011 10:56

  Telstra has launched two new bundled telehealth offerings aimed at rural and regional healthcare providers under a $620 million Federal Government initiative.

• DoHA seeks Web portal to combat chronic disease among indigenous Australians

  By Chloe Herrick | 22 November, 2011 11:56

  The Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA) is on the hunt for a provider to develop and host a Web portal with the aim of better managing and preventing chronic disease among indigenous Australians.

• IBM launches R&D facility in Melbourne

  By Chloe Herrick | 14 October, 2011 14:38

  IBM has launched a new research and development lab in Melbourne, the first for the company in Australia, with a focus on global issues such as natural disasters and disease.

• Calling all intelligent life forms...

  By Tim Lohman | 13 August, 2009 11:37

  As a CIO you may at times have felt like an extra terrestrial life form come to Earth to convey the benefits of advanced technology to a group of inferior life forms (management).

Whitepapers about federal government

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  A Roadmap to the Virtual Data Centre: Accelerate Your Journey to the Government Cloud

  A PARADIGM SHIFT FOR GOVERNMENT IT - Operate more efficiently. That’s the order of the day for government organisations, but obstacles are everywhere. These include soiled information, outdated IT processes, and distributed IT budgets and staff—with little consistency in how information is managed across numerous agencies and systems. Storage is growing at more than 30 percent annually. Utilisation rates are under 50 percent. Power and cooling costs account for 25 percent of the budget. Human errors cause network downtime, and new applications take two to six months to deploy. At least that was the case up until recently. Now we have the cloud.

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  Cloud Storage Solutions for Government

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  Charting Your Course for Government Transformation

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  NZ Government selects HP as panel print supplier for All-of-Government contract