John Sheridan Press Club presentation – 7 December 2010
Slide 1: Overview
· Government Network Services
· Data Centre program
· Telecommunications Panels
· ICT Services Panel
· Desktops and Common Operating Environment (COE)
· Online Services
John Sheridan
First Assistant Secretary, Agency Services
Slide 2: Government Network Services
ICON
· Intra Government Communications Network
· Connects all Commonwealth tenancies in Canberra
· Carries data classified to RESTRICTED and PROTECTED
National Telepresence System
· Linking State and Federal departments via secure video
Fedlink
· Allows secure communications between agencies
Ministerial Communication Network
· Secure services for the Ministry
Slide 3: Data Centres
Strategy 2010 -2025
· All FMA Act agencies must adopt the strategy
· Trigger is at spending point
o Eg. end of contract or upgrade
Data Centre Optimisation
· This policy will set targets for:
o Use of ICT equipment
o Electricity consumption
Data Centre Facilities and Migration Services
· Tenders being evaluated
· Panels to be operational in 2011
Slide 4: Telecommunications
Invoice Reconciliation Services Panel
· Services to compare invoicing data to the related telcocontract to ensure that charges are being calculated correctly
Commodities, Carriage and Associated Services
· Provision of mobile carriage, handsets and broadband devices
· In tender evaluation
Telecommunications Lifecycle Management Service and Internet Based Network Connections
· In tender evaluation
Slide 5: Optimising ICT Services Panels
WISP -Whole of Government ICT Services Panel
· Reducing 90 panels to about 4
· Encouraging competition
· Improving participation, esp SMEs
· Discussion paper on AGIMO Blog
o Ideas include Open RFQs and eNegotiations
Slide 6: Coordinated procurement
Microsoft Volume Sourcing Agreement
· Available for all agencies
· Savings can be retained by the agency
Desktops Panel
· Workstations, Notebooks and Monitors
· Associated services (eg. disposal, warranty, delivery).
Common Operating Environment
· To optimize the number of desktop SOE
o Will support the e-security policy
o Will improve sharing of services and apps
· Trigger for agencies is at a platform upgrade
· How does COE fit into the standard operating environment? (see next slide)
Slide 7: How COE fits in ...
Alternative text: The COE Policy provides the overarching principles and standards that are used by all SOEs regardless of the platform (e.g. for Windows, MacOS, Linux or any other operating system platform). The COE is fully compliant with other government policies such as the COTS/GOTS Policy and Green ICT guidance. It is standards based and product/vendor independent. SOEs are the technical solutions built in accordance with the COE Policy. The pilot SOE includes both a baseline configuration and full build documentation. There is one baseline configuration per platform. The initial SOE build is for the Windows platform however other SOEs will be developed as required. Within agencies, the SOE will support desktop, laptop and portable devices. A Desktop SOE comprises Agency specific components and business applications and is built on the core configuration as provided by AGIMO.
Slide 8: Online Services
Gov 2.0
· Finance is leading the work program
· Launch of AGIMO Blog to engage with public
· Declaration of Open Government
· Development of online engagement guidance for agencies
o Eg. Privacy
Government Services Environment
· Services offered by AGIMO to agencies
o govspace
o govsearch
o govforms
o govdex
o australia.gov.au
o data.gov.au
o directory.gov.au
Slide 9: agimo.govspace.gov.au
Alternative text:
First graph: Entire Blog visits and page views – the spike of 868 visitors on July 16 2010 was a result of Minister Tanner’s Declaration of Open Government post.
Second graph: Top 10 pages on the blog as of 2/12/2010 (number 1 being the agimo.govspace.gov.au URL)
– average time is minutes
Other stats:
• 59 published posts on the blog as of 2/12/2010.
• 634 published comments (including 48 trackbacks – a kind of automatic comment left when an external website links to the AGIMO Blog)
• 326 spam comments (including 64 trackbacks)
• 11 blocked/unapproved comments (from two causes – two were during the caretaker period and breached our tightened moderation rules for that period, the other 9 were duplicate comments from our recent Wikileaks episode).
Slide 10: Future Online Services
· Change of Address Notification Service
o “Tell Us Once”
o Improved currency and consistency in agency records
· Shared Email Service
o Common email gateway for all participants
o Cross-agency access to calendars and address books
o Access to full-featured email system even for smaller agencies