Samantha Thompson is a member of the Digital Transition Policy team at the National Archives of Australia.
Last week, I attended the launch of the Digital Continuity Plan by my agency, the National Archives of Australia. The plan is a key element of a new whole-of-government policy on digital transition that will see all Australian Government agencies move to [...]
Tag Archives: Guest Blogger
Guest Post: Launch of the Digital Continuity Plan
- 23
- Mar
Guest Post: Registrations now open for the 2011 Information Policy Conference
- 05
- Oct
Professor John McMillan is the Australian Information Commissioner. This post originally appeared on the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner Blog.
The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) was established in November 2010 to spearhead open government reform in Australia. Our work rests on a simple statement: government information is a national resource of immense [...]
Guest post: Comment sought on draft public sector information licensing guidelines
- 01
- Feb
Helen Daniels is Assistant Secretary of the Business Law Branch of the Attorney-General’s Department (AGD).
Following the Australian Government’s response to the Government 2.0 Taskforce in May 2010, AGD and other agencies have undertaken a range of work to encourage greater open access to public sector information (PSI) owned or generated by Government agencies.
Guest Post: Get ready for 1 May 2011 – the FOI Information Publication Scheme
- 31
- Jan
This post is from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC). The OAIC is working with AGIMO to develop accessibility advice for agencies for the Information Publication Scheme (IPS).
We hope this post will contribute to agencies’ understanding of how to comply with the accessibility requirements in the context of the IPS, and to help [...]
Guest post: Small agency mentoring — a mentee’s journey
- 08
- Dec
Ewan Perrin is the chief information officer of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority. He participated in the Small Agency Mentoring Program, as discussed by Glenn Archer in a previous post.
Late last year a band of small agency CIOs commenced the second AGIMO-sponsored Small Agency Mentoring (SAM) program. This program pairs us up with experienced large [...]
Guest Post: IT Applications Service Provider Panel – Performance Framework
- 26
- Oct
I’m Tania Walsh, IT Application Services Panel Project Manager for the Enterprise Applications Branch of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). AGIMO has invited me to post as a guest blogger to seek your views and input on our ATO IT Apps Panel – Performance Framework.
We are seeking a broad range of Application professional IT Services [...]
Guest Post: Common Accessibility Fails
- 15
- Sep
This post from Kim Chatterjee is the first in a series of Invited Guest Posts from our CoE members. We encourage everyone to get involved in the Community, so if you want to participate by writing a Guest Post and sharing your advice or views on accessibility, please let us know.
Accessibility in the online space [...]
Guest Post: Now for the main event – you!
- 05
- May
Dr Nicholas Gruen was chair of the Government 2.0 Taskforce.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, that’s about it from us. We laboured hard, but less long than some similar exercises and came up with a report of which I think we were all proud. Now, at least if I can speak for myself, I think the [...]
