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For public review: Cloud Certification Requirements for the Australian Government (draft)

The Australian Government Cloud Computing Strategic Direction (the Strategy) was released in April 2011. It stated that agencies may choose cloud-based services where they demonstrate value for money and adequate security.  The Strategy included a number of deliverables – all of which have been completed, except for the report on cloud certification requirements.
This last deliverable comprised [...]

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COE review now complete

Thank you to everyone for their participation. There has been robust discussion both here and on other forums, providing some valuable information to consider during the next annual review of the COE policy. 
Changes resulting from the 2011 review of the COE policy have been reviewed by the WofG COE Working Group and noted by the Chief [...]

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Streamlining Procurement: Data Centre as a Service – Project Update

We’ve been delighted with the discussion following my previous posting on the Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) initiative. We have reviewed all the contributions and used many of them to improve the Sourcing Approach and Head Agreement. The revised documents are below. I have also included a summary of the questions and responses on the Head Agreement.

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Streamlining Procurement: Data Centre as a Service

Data Centre as a Service (DCaaS) is the next tranche of work in the Data Centre Strategy. We have been putting a lot of thought into how we can simplify procurement of and reduce transaction costs for cloud and cloud-like services while ensuring that we still meet the necessary procurement requirements. Today’s post is the [...]

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Reviewing the Common Operating Environment Policy

Just over 12 months ago, we published the first version of the Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment (COE) Policy on this blog. Unexpectedly, it resulted in the largest number of comments we have ever received on a single post. The surprise was compounded as we had sought comments on the draft policy twice in the preceding [...]

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Reviewing the COE Policy – office productivity suite file format discussion

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Welcome to the WCAG 2.0 Community of Expertise (CoE)

It has been a busy few months for the Accessibility and Style team. We are a small team of two – Jacqui & Raven – who endeavour to bring you all you need to know about accessibility of government websites. Since the endorsement of Version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) for [...]

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Expired: PDF Accessibility Consultation Review

The content below was posted to the Web Publishing Guide between 16 September 2009 and 26 October 2009.  This consultation is now closed.  It is provided here as a reference only.

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An update on the PDF Accessibilty Review

In early September, AGIMO launched a project to review the accessibility support of the Portable Document Format (PDF), for use on government websites. The project is being run in collaboration with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Department of Families and Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).
The initial stage, the Public Consultation, [...]

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