When the NBN becomes VDSL
The National Broadband Network (NBN) implementation study was full of good news for the Federal Government, but it also contained contingency plans for the case of cost blow-outs or nasty surprises.
Going Public
Keeping track of the cheques and (bank) balances in government IT is a big job -- fortunately, when we asked Suzanne Tindal if she could take up the challenge, she said "Yes I Can."
Suzanne Tindal
Suzanne Tindal cut her teeth at ZDNet.com.au as the site's telecommunications reporter, a role that saw her break some of the biggest stories associated with the National Broadband Network process. She then turned her attention to all matters in government and corporate ICT circles. Now she's taking on the whole gamut as news editor for the site.
Latest Posts
Is the Aussie govt too fond of censorship?
Google's statistics released today on how often governments had asked for information on users or issued take-down requests showed that Google had often ignored Australian government requests.
Datacentre strategy a big downer
When I read the summary of the government's datacentre strategy for the next 15 years, the first thing I wondered was how it could have taken the government months to come up with this document.
Thumbs up for Google's voting tool
Google Australia engineering director Alan Noble's tool Cluey Voter, which aims to make voting preferences a little easier for normal people, gets two thumbs up from me.
Playing Russian roulette with govt
The company that set up the website that "leaked" the NSW Government's transport blueprint, Bang the Table, found that by trying to save face, it lost something infinitely more precious.
Why so quiet on the NSW IT review?
Is the NSW Government so loathe to divulge the public details of its IT review for worry of being held to a promise?
That sinking Tcard feeling
There's something terribly unsettling about realising that the NSW Government is considering hiring a company to build a new electronic ticketing system which has already put it through the legal wringer for the system's predecessor.
Chapman's rough end of the pineapple
If I was Alan Chapman, the acting executive director of the Queensland Government Chief Information Office, I'd be really irate right now.
Sick of broken tender sites
Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.
IT: Govt's cost-cutting bitch
The government needs to stop looking at IT as a necessary evil or the place to remove costs when the Treasurer comes calling.