INTERVIEW: The Digital Transformation Agency is reviewing all big federal IT projects but it will only get involved selectively, says Assistant Minister Angus Taylor.

The challenge of what to do about fake news reveals a paucity of policy and regulatory smarts across the wider digital economy.

Government agencies need to build social license before pushing ahead with open data. Two key information mandarins have concerns with reforms proposed by the Productivity…

A new academic paper proposes that three public sector trends — behavioural science, predictive analytics and the investment approach to welfare — can combine powerfully…

The WA government has knocked up a quick prototype of its new myWA online service delivery portal. It has put the call out for alpha…

The federal digital transformation agenda promises to overhaul the operating model that has underpinned the public sector since WWII. It requires very different skills and…

The Digital Transformation Agency has been given teeth. Its first roadmap culls 22 projects down to just five and reveals the biggest shift in decades…

A malware audit in the Western Australian public sector has led to calls for sector-wide security standards to be finalised, and regular compliance check-ups --…

Paul Shetler gave Canberra a kick-start to embrace not just digital but the 'customer-first' approach. After Shetler, the DTA will move from outside disrupter to…

The sneaker-wearing Paul Shetler played the role of disruptor, but the appointment of a long-serving public servant as DTA's Canberra-based interim CEO effectively pulled the…

As the newly empowered Digital Transformation Agency takes on a range of new strategic whole-of-government responsibilities, its interim CEO steps out to explain how it's…

The govCMS project has created a powerful, open and secure innovation platform for government engagement, enabling federal and state agencies to easily contribute and benefit…

The bots are coming. But the opportunities in artificial intelligence for government agencies will only come with something much more human: real organisational leadership.

The increasing number of recent attacks against public digital services should jolt governments into action to better protect cloud infrastructure and digital services.