Fascinated to stumble today across Steven ‘that Family First senator’ Fielding’s video blog on the internet today. There’s an article in Australian IT interviewing him. Seems canny to me to be vlogging on these political issues – canny to the extreme given I don’t think there’s much media exposure for Family First, so it helps …
Catching up with Tony Hayes – currently Chairman of the Information Technology Governance Institute’s ‘ITGI Committee’ (they’re the ones that release COBIT) – recently, Tony mentioned the new Val IT Framework that ITGI has been working on to develop as a complementary framework to COBIT. Tony happens to live in Brisbane where he is currently Executive …
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I recently wrote an article for InTheBlack entitled “Open For Business”. IT discussed pros and cons of open source in a business context. I’ll dig out a link to it later, but one of the points I was making was around the level of activity of a certain project – that is, outside of the …
Since I am currently knee-deep in assisting a client in the development of their information management strategy, the below post from ZDNet appealed to me. It’s a case study of a practical approach to using metadata to meet legislative compliance requirements: Metadata drives WA Legal Eagles.
The new Smartcard seems to have given the government’s budget expenditure on information technology a bit of a boost. Hopefully they realise that replacing 17 cards with 1 is a whole lot more difficult than it sounds when you say it really fast. ZDNet has an overview on the implications of 2006′s budget on the …