Australian ICT &

Public Administration

3-STEP INNOVATION GUIDE

OVERVIEW

The challenges we face

The opportunities we have

The practical things we can do

OVERVIEW

The challenges we face

The opportunities we have

The practical things we can do

ABOUT THE CHALLENGE

Innovative ICT transforming industries: Amazon, Google, mobile apps, etc

Australia has fallen one more place to be 16th in world economic competitiveness

Fed Gov: “ICT will increase public sector productivity”

The question: where to innovate?

HITTING TOP GEAR?CHALLENGE

Gov role in a digital age? Societal innovation; personal id/security

Gov austerity measures – handbrake on?

Constituent expectations – citizens; staff

HELP!!Re-inventing the wheel – shared services; w-of-g solutions; jurisdictional boundaries

Risk management v’s innovation?

Buy Australian?

Political cycles v’s long-term visions

ICT project failures; ICT-Business communications gaps

21% Australians not on-line

Information management – paper still dominating

GOV MODEL 2013CHALLENGE

NBN Cloud (Supermarket of IT)

LET ME AT IT!!

BYOD; Thin ClientAutomation – eg Big Data (Machine Learning)

Mobility; html 5; apps revolution; social media

Gov 2/3?; data.gov

‘Internet of everything’

Tech savvy customers; staff

Rationalised supply chains

Video; gaming

ICT STIG – SOME SAY …

OVERVIEW

The challenges we face

The opportunities we have

The practical things we can do

WHERE ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES

Judicious use of its very large procurement spend is essential

To balance: risks v’s gains for taxes spent

To play safe where obvious; to explore where not!

The public sector is one of the largest contributors (approx $400bn) to Australia’s economy – it’s ‘competiveness’ is critical

OVERVIEW

The challenges we face

The opportunities we have

The practical things we can do

EXPLORING INNOVATION

THREE PRACTICAL WAYS TO BENEFIT:

Join the community-of-interest – ideas; partnerships

Get informed eg Newsletters; social media; workshops; seminars; conferences; etc – improved value propositions

Trial through collaborative projects where agencies; industry; and research identify and test new solutions to the big challenges of government – seed new business

e GOV CLUSTER

To advance public administration and the Australian ICT industry

By fostering innovative Australian ICT in all spheres of government

CLUSTER APPROACH

THROUGH

Building and supporting a strong community-of-interest (the ‘Cluster’)

Informing – there are a range of communications channels such as Newsletters; social media; workshops; seminars; conferences; etc

Doing – facilitating collaborative projects where agencies; industry; and research identify and test new solutions to the big challenges of government

COLLABORATIONCHALLENGE

GOVERNMENT

RESEARCH

ICT INDUSTRY

Magic

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT – MOBILE CANBERRAA device independent mobile app’; accessing ACT Open Data;

providing location-specific info’ re gov’ services

THE WRAP

Both sectors must be adventurous for success

Collaboration: a low-risk, low-cost, high-return solution

QnA?

A vibrant ICT sector and public administration are essential to Australia’s future