Page 903 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 29 March 2011
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Shared Services has also conducted a feasibility assessment of the Australian government ICT quick wins paper and I am pleased to report that eight of the 12 proposals included in that document have already been implemented within the ACT government ICT environment to some degree and the remaining four proposals are considered viable. The server virtualisation action identified in the paper as a longer term priority is already an ongoing body of work for Shared Services. With regard to making data available on relevant government websites as soon as it is advertised in the media, an ACT government website development and management standard is in place and is applied to all ACT government agencies, authorities, the CIT and schools. This standard recommends, “Public documents should, where appropriate, be published electronically prior to their hard copy equivalents.”
Finally, in relation to the use of telecommuting and teleconferencing, the government is actively committed to this strategy. Many agencies and Shared Services have in place the necessary technology and it is being widely used where appropriate. Further work is being done to develop and coordinate a service-wide policy on this initiative. Mr Speaker, I look forward to releasing the ACT government ICT sustainability plan later this year and will of course provide a copy of the strategy for the information of members. I present the following paper:
Clean ICT motion—Government response—Copy of statement by Minister.
I am happy to move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
MS LE COUTEUR (Molonglo) (10.46): I thank the government for providing the paper—
Members interjecting—
MR SPEAKER: Members, just before Ms Le Couteur starts, there is a very high level of conversation in the chamber. It would be helpful if people could tone it down a little bit. Thank you. Ms Le Couteur.
MS LE COUTEUR: First I will go through what the government was asked to do by this motion. The motion calls on the government to commit to measuring its ICT environmental impact. Yes, it is great the government said it will do it, but it still has not yet actually done it. Paragraph (b) of the motion asks the government to expedite the ICT sustainability plan, including consideration of life cycle impacts of ICT. Mr Stanhope has just told us that this plan will turn up some time later this year. Is this expediting the process? It is a bit of a worry if “later this year” is “expedited” and that we do not yet have an ICT sustainability plan.
Paragraph (c) commits the government to considering all the actions in the Australian government ICT quick wins paper, and I am very pleased that the government has done eight of 12 of those and is looking to the others. That is great. Paragraph (d)
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