Crowd-sourcing offers a flood of new data for governments and citizens alike – but without a bit of creativity, realising its benefits may be elusive.

Organisations moving towards a cloud-computing infrastructure must ensure they have clear buy-in from business stakeholders that may not be ready to learn.

Government ICT spend will grow slowly through 2015, but net increase masks productivity benefits of cloud, mobility, big data, and social-media spending.

The Australian government's peak ICT strategy organisation, AGIMO, will undergo a major reorganisation to refocus itself around whole-of-government policy.

The push towards cloud computing will drive government bodies to embrace the model, Telstra's head of enterprise and government business has predicted.

Research In Motion's make-or-break BlackBerry 10 operating system won a reprieve from US Customs, suggesting the new mobile platform is not dead just yet.

Australian Industry Participation (AIP) plans

Governments need good ICT more than ever to boost productivity – but reports into project management performance suggest they're letting themselves down.

Infor has released a cloud-hosted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) version of its public sector applications suite in order to woo cost-conscious councils.

Telstra will add four new data centres to its network in order to better address government and large enterprise concerns over the sovereignty of cloud data

Vivek Kundra's stint as the first CIO of the US fundamentally changed a project-management and strategy culture with little order and no accountability.

Australian organisations are more permissive on BYOD than their Western peers but still lag behind developing countries, Ovum-Logicalis research says

Victoria's IT minister has outlined his plans to bring Victoria's ICT strategy under control and refocus a public sector rocked by the CeniTex scandal.

AGIMO guidance has provided firm guidelines for government organisations charting their adoption of cloud-computing resources. But what does it say?

Council staff are increasingly using mobiles to enter information and photographs from the field, saving time and money for resource-constrained councils.