[LINK] Where is the GOV.AU Alpha prototype?

[Tom Worthington]

The Digital Transformation Office released a "prototype" of GOV.AU: 
http://dto.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=18f172213d32ca205c7e524bd&id=33ca021784&e=094181f64a

But where is the GOV.AU Alpha prototype? I followed the link to 
http://www.gov.au/alpha/ but that was just describing some aspects, not 
a functional gov.au website.

The term "prototype" refers to a functional system. If instead DTO are 
releasing a set of example screens showing typical use (such as "Matt 
starts a business"), this is a "mockup" not a prototype.

What DTO seems to have mocked-up is only a tiny fraction of the gov.au 
web site, which is like designing the the cup-holders for a car and 
claiming it is a prototype of the whole vehicle.

At ANU I help mentor and assess student software projects and start-ups. 
A team of three to five students undertake six to twelve month projects. 
The GOV.AU Alpha prototype looks similar to what the students produce 
after their first few weeks work. I had expected much more of DTO. 
Perhaps the government could have students do the mock-ups: 
https://cs.anu.edu.au/TechLauncher/industry.html


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