The headline isn't literally true, but a major professional services firm is predicting that 2011 will be the year when non-PC computing devices outnumber traditional PCs.

The Federal Government wants more citizens and private companies to participate in its fledgling web 2.0 initiatives and also use commonwealth content being released under creative commons licence in private mash ups.

The most successful companies are the ones that are not treating their IT department as a cost–centre, but rather as a strategy neighbour, getting things done cheaper and faster and opening new revenue streams in business.

Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner has centralised billions of dollars worth of technology purchasing power within the Department of Finance as part a sweeping changes to the way the Commonwealth manages its data centre operations.

The challenge for Government in building 2.0-style community engagement was in balancing a free exchange of ideas with the security and impartiality required for policy development, Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner said.

In the most comprehensive set of reforms in a generation, the Rudd Government will overhaul privacy law in Australia, harmonising privacy treatment across Federal and State jurisdictions, and "future proofing" these protections against technology change.

Australia’s peak IT research and commercialisation agency NICTA has joined with the ACT Government to create a new public-private R&D cluster focused on government technology.

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is going direct – using live Web chat this morning for the first time – to engage voters directly through the PM Connect site.

The shiny new Government 2.0 Taskforce in Australia will hand off its recommendations for which public sector data sets should be shared openly through the Internet to the soon-to-be-established Office of the Information Commissioner.

Australia’s trade promotions organisation, Austrade, says opportunities are opening up for Australian IT companies to take advantage of increased technology spend by Asian companies, despite the global economic downturn.