Public cloud benefits outweigh security and data sovereignty risks, says head of Parliament IT
Security enhancements outweigh potential risks around storing data in US servers as the Houses of Parliament implements its public cloud strategy.
Security enhancements outweigh potential risks around storing data in US servers as the Houses of Parliament implements its public cloud strategy.
NEC Australia won a three-year contract with the Department of Parliamentary Services to provide managed ICT services and support to 260 electorate offices of Australian senators and members of Parliament across the country.
Any delay to the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout as a result of political tinkering would harm competition, according to the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC).
The Senate has beat back a Pirate Party petition against a proposed data retention law under consideration by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security.
The Queensland parliamentary service wants to upgrade telephone infrastructure and move to IP-based unified communications, according to a tender published this month.
Privacy commissioners of Australia and New Zealand said they need more enforcement authority to combat data breaches and other privacy concerns.
Consumers should spoof their IP address and use US forwarding addresses to beat high IT prices in Australia, consumer advocacy group Choice said.
Parliament’s ICT service is finally being reformed — a year after a tough report criticised the quality of the service.
Anyone who suspects there is a lack of leadership at the heart of New Zealand goverment will have their suspicions confirmed — at least as far as IT leadership is concerned — by a recent report on Parliamentary computing.
Parliament is tiptoeing into e-democracy with a pilot project for the electronic filing of submissions on legislation, as well for managing public access to associated documents.
Parliament’s brand-new website suffered an embarrassing failure on its first day, despite performing faultlessly in tests, according to a spokesman for the company that developed the website, Terabyte.
Design and development work is now underway on the resuscitated Public Access to Legislation project, says deputy chief parliamentary counsel Geoff Lawn. The project, he says, is still on track for completion in late 2006 early 2007 as originally envisaged when PAL was relaunched almost a year ago (Computerworld, April 18, 2005, page 3).
Many members of Parliament, according to inside sources, pay close attention to newspaper website polls canvassing public opinion on issues of the day, despite the fact that the respondents are a self-selected sample of those with internet access and a thirst for making their opinions known.
MPs to receive online access to committee documents
Project will "significantly improve public access" to legislation