[LINK] Australian Government ICT Reform Program
Tom Worthington
Tom.Worthington at tomw.net.au
Wed Jun 24 10:36:33 AEST 2009
At 09:32 AM 24/06/2009, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote (was: "Re:
Government 2.0: Policy and Practice"):
>In your email you used the term "participatory government" ... So
>what did you mean ...
No, I didn't use the term "participatory government". For what I
meant see: <http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/mgovernment/>.
But while on the topic of government ICT, John Sheridan from AGIMO
talked about the implementation of the Government's ICT Reform
Program at a joint ACS/AIPM meeting in Canberra last night
<http://acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9002&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10136584490702>.
John discussed the implementation of the Gershon Recommendations. He
mentioned the Portfolio, Programme, and Project Management Maturity
Model (P3M3) tool from the UK would be used
<http://www.p3m3-officialsite.com/>. He commented that IT budgets in
industry are expected to be flat, during to the global financial
crisis and government IT people could not expect any better than
this. Part of the savings which the government is requiring from
agencies on ICT will be available for new initiatives which agencies
bid for. AGIMO will make use of a similar approach to Intellect, the
UK IT industry body <http://www.intellectuk.org/>. Green ICT will
also be addresses, hopefully by the public service staff and
contractors enrolling in my Green ICT Course. ;-)
While the ICT Reform Program has its own internal logic, I don't
think it matches up to the needs of the clients, who are the
Australian Public Service and their clients, the Australian public.
The ICT system which AGIMO is planning to build does not match up
with the ICT enhanced political system envisaged in Monday's
Government 2.0 event at Parliament House
<http://www.katelundy.com.au/2009/05/29/public-sphere-2-open-government-policy-and-practice/>.
A useful analogy would be to say AGIMO are building a better saddle
for a horse, when horses are no longer used for transport.
AGMIO are planning how to improve efficiency of the separate islands
of ICT in the various government agencies. But what is needed is one
government mashup. That a particular agency has an efficient internal
system will be of little value if it is only available in that agency
and can't be used across the public service or easily accessed by the
public. There is little sense in making the tiny isolated email and
electronic document archives of each agency more efficient.
More on this at:
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2009/06/government-ict-reform-program.html>.
Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
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