Monthly Archives: January 2012

Release of Government ICT expenditure report

Today, the Special Minister of State, The Hon Gary Gray AO MP, released a report on Australian Government ICT expenditure in 2008-09 and 2009-10.  The report is now available on the Department of Finance and Deregulation website.

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2011 Australians’ use and satisfaction with e-Government Services report released

Today, I have released the report Interacting with Government ‑ Australians’ use and satisfaction with e-Government Services 2011, which shows Australians prefer to access Government services online.  The report is now available on the Finance website.
This is the sixth and last in the time series of studies that commenced in 2005.

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Release of WCAG 2.0 Techniques for PDF

On 3 January 2012, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) published updated Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, including new techniques for the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Silverlight, and an update to Understanding WCAG 2.0.
With these new techniques now released, agencies need to incorporate as many of them as practicable, as [...]

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Publishing Public Sector Information: new advice released

AGIMO has released new advice on publishing public sector information (PSI) on the Web Guide. The new advice, prepared in consultation with the Government 2.0 Steering Group, provides agencies with a practical guide to making information available online for public access and reuse (subject to privacy, security and other relevant concerns).

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