AGIMO, CeBIT awards recognise government ICT innovation
Sunshine Coast Council, DMITRE, Adelaide City Council and other government bodies were popping the champagne last night as Senator Kate Lundy, Minister Assisting for Industry and Innovation, announced the winners of the Australian Government ICT Awards at a gala dinner during CeBIT last night.
The awards, which are run annually by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO), recognise ICT best practice at all levels of government and were highlighted by the naming of the Department of Human Services as the Overall Excellence in eGovernment (and Service Delivery category award winner) for their Express Plus mobile app.
Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Council won in the Applications Development Category for an eBusiness platform providing a single window to online services, while the South Australian Resources Information Geoserver (SARIG) 2020 project – which integrates over 400 spatial data sets from across government and the private sector – was named the best geospatial project.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Census Spotlight project took out the prize in the Government 2.0 category, while Adelaide City Council’s Microsoft Lync-based unified communications implementation was awarded in the Project and Program Management category.
A number of individuals were also recognised in the awards, with Pia Waugh of the Department of Finance taking home the Government 2.0 Innovator Award and Kiama Municipal Council’s John Holland and the Wollondilly Shire Council IT team receiving the ICT Professional of the Year Awards.
Read the full list of winners and finalists here.
Also announced on the night were the winners of the CeBIT.AU Business Awards, which were run in conjunction with the massive ICT conference held in Sydney this week.
MyNetFone took out one of the four awards, in the Outstanding Project category, for its work implementing Voice over IP services to the Tasmanian government. The project, according to the judges, “delivered a financial and technical outcome which allowed seamless migration to the next-generation technologies in the future.” – David Braue
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