GovTech - Microsoft Australia Government Affairs Blog
NAIDOC Week: Our support for Indigenous Entrepreneurs
It’s NAIDOC Week, offering us all a chance to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
Author: sassoong Date: 07/07/2010
Are we entering a new era of sustainability?
This month Accenture released their UN Global Compact CEO Study 2010, the largest such study of CEOs...
Author: sassoong Date: 06/29/2010
Tackling the problem of cybercrime
This week the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications tabled its report of the...
Author: sassoong Date: 06/22/2010
Computer skills build thriving communities
(Opinion piece published in Australian Financial Review, 12 June 2010)Late last year, I had the...
Author: sassoong Date: 06/14/2010
IT security as important as locking up your office
(Cross posted from Open Forum) It is clear to most that the Internet provides significant benefits...
Author: sassoong Date: 06/06/2010
State of our climate
CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology have recently released an excellent summary of State of the...
Author: sassoong Date: 06/03/2010
Promoting Australian Disability Enterprises
The Purchasing with Purpose Expo was launched today (1 June) by the Parliamentary Secretary for...
Author: sassoong Date: 05/31/2010
ThinkUKnow and Innovation Award
This month ThinkUknow, a joint initiative between Microsoft, Ninemsn and the Australian Federal...
Author: sassoong Date: 05/26/2010
Open Gov 2.0
Partnering with Semantic Technologies and Metadata Australia, Microsoft is hosting the Open Gov 2.0...
Author: sassoong Date: 05/13/2010
Cloud Computing: Legal and Policy challenges
Last month I had the opportunity to talk about cloud computing at an Australian National University...
Author: sassoong Date: 05/08/2010
Sharing best practice in the not-for-profit sector
The not-for-profit sector in Australia is diverse and of significant size. The recent research...
Author: sassoong Date: 05/06/2010
Boosting Productivity – Key to Economic Recovery and Growth
Increased productivity has been responsible economic growth and welfare improvement in Australia's...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/28/2010
Earth Day 2010
On April 22 2010 Earth Day celebrated its 40th anniversary. Established in the US in 1970, Earth Day...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/22/2010
Microsoft TownHall: Building Public Online Communities
(Cross posted from the Microsoft On the Issues blog, 19 April 2010) We’ve all seen how the...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/21/2010
Closing the IT gap for Aboriginal businesses
Microsoft has partnered with Yarnteen and Social Ventures Australia to launch a new initiative...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/12/2010
Support for Microsoft Windows versions during 2010
During the coming year, a number of versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system will go out...
Author: sassoong Date: 04/11/2010
Moving Responsibly to Cloud Computing
(Cross posted from the Microsoft On the Issues blog, 26 March 2010) There has been much attention...
Author: sassoong Date: 03/29/2010
Earth Hour 2010
Microsoft Australia is again participating in Earth Hour, which is now one of the world’s biggest...
Author: sassoong Date: 03/25/2010
No Silver Bullet to Protecting Children Online
With the release by the Government of submissions on measures to increase accountability and...
Author: Simon Edwards Date: 03/23/2010
Concerned about your children’s online safety?
(Cross posted from Windows 7 Australia blog) If your children use the Internet at home, you already...
Author: sassoong Date: 03/16/2010
Protecting consumers from fraud
The 2010 Consumer Fraud Week was launched today by the Australian Competition and Consumer...
Author: sassoong Date: 02/28/2010
Australian families get an online safety boost
Joint media release from Microsoft and the Australian Federal Police Australian families will be...
Author: sassoong Date: 02/18/2010
Industry Awards Launch for 2010
Nominations have opened for the 2010 iAwards – Australia’s premier technology innovation awards. The...
Author: Simon Edwards Date: 02/14/2010
Filtering decisions require independent review – who do you trust?
Technorati Tags: Filter,censorship,child protection,refused classification Tomorrow (Friday...
Author: Simon Edwards Date: 02/10/2010
New service for IT professionals
Left to Right: Minister Stephen Conroy; Gianpaolo Carraro, DPE Director, Microsoft; Nigel O’Rorke,...
Author: sassoong Date: 02/02/2010
Reforming the Reformist Agenda
(Cross-posted from Talk Standards) Conversations about the governance of standards setting...
Author: sassoong Date: 01/28/2010
Benchmark agreement between Queensland Government and Microsoft ‘ground-breaking’
Queensland’s ‘Toward Q2 through ICT’ strategy took an important step forward this week with the...
Author: sassoong Date: 01/27/2010
Guest Blog by NSW Leader of the Opposition, Barry O’Farrell
Improving the relationship between government and people I’m a believer in the power of IT improving...
Author: Simon Edwards Date: 01/26/2010
A new battlefield
We will have a cyber-equivalent of Pearl Harbor at some time, and we do not want to wait for that...
Author: sassoong Date: 01/20/2010
Security update relating to current Internet Explorer vulnerability
Microsoft strongly recommends customers who are using Internet Explorer 6 or 7 upgrade to Internet...
Author: sassoong Date: 01/18/2010
$500,000 in software donated to emergency and disaster response agencies
A large number of our staff contributed very generously to appeals led by Microsoft Australia over...
Author: sassoong Date: 01/14/2010
A Childhood for every child
As the issue of ISP level filtering in Australia rages on, it is important to remind ourselves about...
Author: sassoong Date: 12/16/2009
Our Participation in COP15
Microsoft is providing a delegation of issue and technology experts accredited to support the UN's...
Author: sassoong Date: 12/14/2009
SES Volunteers go on-line
Left to Right: Pip Marlow, Public Sector Director, Microsoft; Steve Whan MP, NSW Minister for...
Author: sassoong Date: 12/03/2009
National Disability Services
This week National Disability Services held its CEO Forum in Canberra. National Disability Services...
Author: sassoong Date: 12/01/2009
Bing PM Rudd - Speaking to the Public Service
Delegates to the 2009 Institute of Public Administration of Australia (IPAA) Annual Conference will...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/19/2009
APEC CEO Summit 2009
Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Craig Mundie last week addressed the APEC CEO...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/17/2009
Make a Difference with Web 2.0 and win in NSW apps competition
apps4nsw is a public competition to foster and promote the development of innovative digital...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/12/2009
Privacy and Cloud Computing: Microsoft
Yesterday Microsoft released a new position paper titled, Privacy in the Cloud Computing Era: A...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/05/2009
NSW Minister for Commerce visits Microsoft Australia
NSW Minister for Commerce, Jodi McKay (far right) viewing Microsoft Surface Technology This week,...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/05/2009
Australian Software Industry Gets Exposure in USA
Microsoft and the Australian Government (Austrade) are joining forces to drive entrepreneurship...
Author: sassoong Date: 11/04/2009