Page 4257 - Week 10 - Wednesday, 22 September 2010
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Sorry, I do not believe we have done that.
They have not looked at the power use of ICT in the ACT or the ACT government. They have not looked at the issues as far as thin clients would be concerned, and they have not done any specific work to look at the power savings which could be possible with PCs in IT. I got that specifically in writing, because I asked a question on notice after that hearing. I must say that I was very disappointed that that was the case.
Another area which I know we have not looked at is our data centres. We are just about to spend some considerable sums of money on putting additional air-conditioning in our current data centres, but I think what we need to do is actually look again at our data centre strategy. I have received representations—I assume the government and the opposition have also—from data centre vendors who are of the belief that they could do a much greener job than the ACT government is currently doing.
I hope that this does not get caught up with the ongoing issue about the one government office and whether we are we going to have one or not. It is too important. We actually need to get a good green data centre solution for the ACT. In this, I would commend the ACT to look at cooperation with the commonwealth, which is considerably advanced on this.
Moving on to my next point, the government has not developed an ICT sustainability plan. In fact, I should have also included in my motion the fact that InTACT does not have an IT strategy at all. I found that out from a question on notice earlier this year. We asked in estimates about when the ICT sustainability plan will be developed, and Ms Divorty said:
We would like to finish it within 2010-11 but that would depend on agency priorities. As you know, there are some very large ICT programs going on with agencies.
We actually have to make this a priority. This is why I have moved this motion—the energy use and sustainability of ICT needs to become a priority.
Moving on to what we are doing with ICT—making the information available—my next point is that the government has not committed to making supporting information available on the web as soon as the consultations are notified in the newspaper. I continually get phone calls and emails from people where consultation or DAs have been in the paper but they are not on the government’s website. This is actually something that the government can solve very easily, because I know the government uses MySource for its websites. MySource has something in it where you can get a page together and set a date and time when it will be published in the future. This one is really, really easy to solve, and it is just incomprehensible that it has not been.
The next one is that the government has not committed to making information available in a timely and effective manner. There are quite a few instances here, but I am running out of time, so I will just talk about a few, including ACTION and
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