Quoting from PSnewsonline Edition Number 454f. Updated Friday, 08 May 2015 http://www.psnews.com.au/aps/Page_psn454f2.html?utm_source=psn454f&utm_medium=email&utm_content=news2&utm_campaign=newsletter_Friday
Digital awards plugged in
Trend-setters in digital prowess in the Australian Public Service (APS) have been recognised at the National Archives of Australia's (NAA) inaugural Digital Excellence Awards.
As well as rewarding excellence in the field, the awards also feature winning projects as examples for other Government Agencies to emulate.
Director-General of NAA, David Fricker, who was one of the judges, said projects were judged on how well they met the public's needs; improvements to efficiency and productivity, and on their ability to meet international standards in digital records management.
"A focus on the business benefits of better information management and how well Agencies exploited the value of information were also taken into account," Mr Fricker said.
The other judges were the President of the Institute of Public Administration Australia, Terry Moran and the Chief Information Officer of National ICT Australia and member of the NAA Advisory Council, Phil Robertson
Winners in the three categories included the departments of Immigration and Border Protection, Human Services, the Federal Court of Australia, and the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator.
Archives recognises achievement
The Australian Crime Commission and the Parliamentary Budget Office were highly commended.
In Large Agency category, the joint winners were the Department of Immigration and Border Protection (DIPB) and the Department of Human Services (DHS).
According to the judges, over the next four years DIPB was facing an estimated growth of 23 per cent in people travelling into and out of Australia.
Its ImmiAccount self-service project for managing visa applications in a digitised format, using a secure online account, was described by the judges as "a world standard innovation and reform."
They said that DHS' s winning MyGov digital service was "a high impact, complex initiative that has yielded significant efficiency gains and improvement in services".
In the Medium Agency category the Federal Court of Australia was successful for its electronic court file system - an Australian first - that the award judges said could provide an example of huge benefits for other court systems
The Small Agency category was taken out by the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator for the introduction of an electronic document and records management system, described by the judges as an example of "managing the complexities well and within existing budgets".
"We were delighted with the standard of entries from Commonwealth agencies across Australia," Mr Fricker said.
"These new awards are part of our strategy to encourage Agencies to enhance their digital information management skills and I see these winning projects as being a great inspiration to other Agencies," he said.
"We recognise that not all Agencies are able to totally transform their existing records management practices, but even incremental improvements are important," Mr Fricker said.
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