Streamlined .gov.au registration and administration on the way Communications & Technology Public servants seized control of the gov.au domain name administration system last February and are working on making it "simple, fast and clear" for users… Read more
Paul Shetler: forget high tech fantasies if you can’t answer the phones Wednesday August 2, 2017 By Stephen Easton Editors' Picks Government service delivery agencies that can’t “answer the friggin’ phones” should not be spending time and money exploring exciting new areas like big data analytics,… Read more
Single sites like gov.au are old hat, says NSW CIDO Damon Rees Wednesday July 26, 2017 By Stephen Easton News It's not worth creating a single government website like the federal government almost got with gov.au, in the view of NSW chief information and digital… Read more
Angus Taylor confident 'DTA 2.0' can achieve its great expectations Tuesday February 21, 2017 By Stephen Easton Communications & Technology INTERVIEW: The Digital Transformation Agency is reviewing all big federal IT projects but it will only get involved selectively, says Assistant Minister Angus Taylor. Read more
Building better government services the design-centric way Sunday May 29, 2016 By The Mandarin Communications & Technology Government agencies have a great opportunity — and a mandate — to combine data-centric design with the power of analytics to provide better services to… Read more
Don’t worry, govCMS doesn’t mean standardised sites Thursday April 21, 2016 By David Donaldson News Will govCMS mean bland, cookie-cutter websites? No way, argues one of its creators. John Sheridan says people are queuing up to join thanks to the… Read more
Martin Stewart-Weeks: giving policy the open, disruptive treatment Tuesday April 5, 2016 By Martin Stewart-Weeks Communications & Technology As Australia takes tentative steps towards open government, it should not forget the policy domain. Disruptive problem solving, like DTO evangelises, and wider engagement in… Read more
Portals, doors and APIs: does DTO's gov.au fit Australian needs? Friday April 1, 2016 By Craig Thomler Communications & Technology As gov.au moves into beta, Australia's digiterati have not fallen unanimously behind the design priority of moving to a single portal to rule them all. Read more
Gov.au to replace 1500 government websites with an uber-portal Wednesday March 23, 2016 By Tom Burton Communications & Technology The DTO releases its alpha version of gov.au as it plans to cull from the 1500 websites the federal government already operates that are out… Read more
DTO seeks head of gov.au unitary web platform Tuesday December 22, 2015 By The Mandarin News Wanted: a digital guru to finish building and run a single website for the whole federal government. The DTO is seeking an executive to manage… Read more
