[LINK] IT can lead to big savings: Tanner

[Tom Worthington]

At 04:12 PM 18/04/2008, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Tom Worthington wrote:
>>... My company web site and education server is provided by a 
>>commercial company in Sydney ...My laptop was used for 
>>presentations at the Open 2020 Summit.
>
>You didn't actually answer my question about sharing your laptop. ...

Okay, yes: I let other people use my laptop. But the point I was 
trying to make was that I think of the laptop as a way to access 
online services. Those services are provided by remote shared 
computers systems. The idea that someone would run a service which 
was important, or store important information, on a computer sitting 
on their desk, seems foolish.

>Using a shared service from a company that specialises in offering 
>shared services isn't really equivalent to multiple government 
>departments sharing another department's services. ...

Regardless of if it is a company, or a government agency, providing a 
service, they have to provide much the same thing in much the same 
way. If you set up a system for recruiting in an agency, then you 
will need to authorize users to particular functions in the system. 
Not all the people you authorize will be employees of that agency, 
nor will they be located on the agency premises, nor will they be 
authorized to look at all the data. Once you have set up the system 
to cope with all that, it is a small extra step to be able to 
authorize people from other agencies to do their own recruiting on the system.



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