[LINK] NOIE = OIE + AGIMO

[Tom Worthington]

At 3/10/2004 04:09 PM, Roger Clarke wrote (was: "NOIE = OIE + AGIMO"):
>... NOIE becomes OIE, and is moved back inside DCITA.
>AGIMO = Office of the Aust Govt CIO. ...

 From reading of the media release 
<http://www.noie.gov.au/publications/media_releases/2004/Mar/agimo.htm> 
NOIE is being split into AGIMO for internal administrative IT issues and 
Office for the Information Economy (OIE) for outside government. So it 
would make sense to move AGIMO to the Prime Minister's portfolio from the 
Communications Minister. DCITA has little role in coordinating what other 
agencies do, whereas that is all PM&C does.

The other place to put AGIMO is in the Finance Department which is where 
NOIE's predecessor, the Office for Government Online (OGO), came from. No 
doubt someone will delve further into the past when the IT policy function 
was somewhere else.

ps: Someone could do a PHD charting the life of IT policy components of 
government by tracking the changes from OGIT to OGO to NOIE, as recorded in 
the Internet Archive <http://web.archive.org/>.


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Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309
http://www.tomw.net.au PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617
Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University
Publications Director, Australian Computer Society