OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
The Department of Finance has completed its stage two calculation of Gershon-inspired ICT savings and reckons more than $1 billion can be returned to the Budget over the next four years.
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner says the savings come directly from
streamlining "business as usual" activities and that the Australian
Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) had identified $430 in
savings between 2010-11 and 2012-13.
He said those savings were in addition to the $570 million identified in stage one of the program announced in April.
"In his independent review of the Government’s use of ICT, Sir Peter
Gershon noted that savings of around $1 billion could be achieved over
four years by reducing agencies’ business as usual ICT costs," Lindsay
Tanner said.
"The completion of the second phase of this program means the savings foreshadowed by Sir Peter Gershon have now been realised."
"AGIMO has been assisting agencies to reduce their ICT business as
usual costs by up to 15 per cent annually. Importantly, these cost
reductions have not come from cutting service delivery capability, but
from more efficient use of ICT."
Mr Tanner said Government stood by its commitment to re-invest 50 per
cent of the Gershon savings into ICT-based productivity programs for
the Commonwealth. The department is currently considering the project
applications from departments seeking funding through the BAU savings
program.
"Agencies are now looking at how they can make further efficiency
improvements and have already begun putting forward proposals to
utilise funds from the savings pool. I expect to be able to announce
the first group of projects in the coming months," Mr Tanner said.
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