[LINK] Redesigning Government IT 2010

[Tom Worthington]

Greetings from the 2010 ACS Canberra Branch Conference at the historic 
Canberra Hyatt. This is a one day conferecne with four streams: Data 
Management, Service Management, Personal Development and Enterprise 
Architecture. The conference traditionally concentrates on professional 
skills, rather than technology. This year the emphasis is on developing 
the young professional (with university students milling around 
nervously, obviously in their best clothes and on their best behaviour).

There also seems to be a defence flavour running through much of the 
conference.  Topics this year which stand out to me were: ITIL V3, "The 
  Virtuous IT Professional" Data developments at the ABS and the 
UNSW at Canberra Robotics Tournament.

The conference is as usual opened with government heavyweights. This 
year it is the John Stanhope, Chief Minister of the ACT, John Sheridan, 
  from AGIMO. Bruce Lakin, the new CEO of the ACS and Matt Yannopoulos, 
  CTO, Department of Defence.

The Chief Minister started by admitted he doesn't have a Facebook page 
or Twitter, but does have a Blackberry. ...

The Chief Minister then highlighted Transact's success at delivering 
broadband in Canberra, including to all schools (unfortunately ACT may 
therefore miss out on federal funding because it was a pioneer). ...

John Sheridan, from AGIMO, then did the "Vision Thing". He argued for 
business credibility for IT people. ...

Applications account for 36% of total government IT spend and is the 
largest single amount. This is something I raised with the new 
government data centre policy ...

Finance has turned on access to Twitter and Facebook to staff, 
indicating that the senior executive are comfortable with the 
technology. ...

Bruce Lakin, the new CEO of the ACS outlined the new certification 
process for ACS. This is now internationally recognised by IP3. The new 
Certified professional (CP) with CT (Certified Technologist) and CS 
(Certified Specialist) will be recognsied in the UK, USA and other 
countries. This has required alignment with the SFIA, including for the 
Green ICT course I designed.

The keynote as Matt Yannopoulos, CTO, Department of Defence. Before his 
presentation I chatted with Matt, who confessed to me he wasn't a 
blogger, but the Chief of Army was. I suggested he not rush into 
blogging as there are downsides. Matt is leading the development of the 
Defence ICT architecture.  ...

More at: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2010/03/redesigning-government-it-2010.html>.


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Tom Worthington FACS HLM, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150
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