IT & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Awareness through:
• Events that promote new technology concepts/
innovations for government
The cluster runs a number of events for
government stakeholders to learn about new
technology innovation topics including eHealth,
Mobilegov, Cloud computing etc.
• Events that investigate “Lessons Learnt” from ICT
deployments for government
The cluster runs a number of events that enable
government stakeholders to learn from their
industry colleagues’ experiences.
The cluster welcomes participants from all
levels of government (federal, state and local).
Current membership includes state and federal
government agencies, multinational corporations,
highly effective small businesses and research
organisations such as NICTA and universities. An
example of current activity is a survey and analysis
of the community perception of mobile payment
systems, highly relevant to local government.
For more information on the cluster please see
www.egovernmentcluster.org.au.
About Dr Dean Economou – Dean is
technology Strategist at NICTA across
the areas of Broadband, Digital Economy,
Infrastructure, Transport and Logistics. He
formerly held senior roles in CSIRO and
began his career as a designer of high
speed network technology.
About Nicola Gracey – Nicola recently
joined NICTA’s Broadband and Digital
Economy team and previously held
marketing roles across a number of local
government portfolios, most recently at
Brisbane City Council.
About NICTA – NICTA pursues highimpact research excellence and, through
application of this research, creates
national benefit and wealth for Australia.
We aim to be one of the world’s top ICT
research centres. We have five laboratories
around the country, and partner with
an increasing number of Australia’s best
universities. With more than 600 people,
we are the largest organisation in Australia
dedicated to ICT research.
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