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根据技术专家说法，维州布伦比政府电脑部门管理不善，浪费纳税人钱，每年数以百万计，同时造成不必要的温室气体排放。
一份泄漏的秘密报告警告说，许多独立的公共服务IT系统浪费每年浪费高达4000万元。
累积了很多不必要的重复，复杂性和成本...，而真正的成本...不为人所知或无法管理。该报告显示，维州的IT部门每年消耗1亿5000万元，占该州整个预算的百分之4-5。
而且已有超过7年时间，政府一直未能合并其不良信息系统。报告说足足有一千六百万元的开销可以通过措施得到相应减少。
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/states-computers-put-a-40m-byte-on-tax-dollar-20100302-pgff.html
THE Brumby government's poor management of the state's computers is wasting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars each year and causing greenhouse gases to be spewed out unnecessarily, according to its own technology experts.
A confidential report leaked to The Age warns that the many separate public service IT systems waste up to $40 million a year, producing ''high levels of unnecessary duplication, complexity and cost … and the true cost … is not understood or managed''.
The report reveals that the state's IT sector soaks up $1.65 billion a year, or 4-5 per cent of the state's entire budget, and says that for more than seven years the government has been unable to merge its poorly connected information systems.
Stamped ''Cabinet-in-confidence'', the report says $16 million could be saved by reducing the number of separate government computer banks.
Targeting the Premier's Department and Treasury, the report says both departments have significant floor space at 1 Treasury Place ''occupied by … servers that could be housed at an inexpensive non-CBD location''. It says centralisation could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25,000 tonnes a year, which is 30 per cent of the government's own emissions reduction target.
A government spokesman said: ''We have already made significant savings and we are on track to meet our targets.''
One IT expert said that while centralisation was inevitable, the projected savings raised ''unrealistic expectations about the size of the benefits and underestimated the challenges of managing change'', while another source said ''no one who knew anything [about IT] thought they could actually achieve their benchmarks''.
Previous reports from the Auditor-General have slammed individual IT projects. Health-SMART was over time and over budget, Victoria Police was criticised over electronic record keeping, and the new myki ticketing system is projected to cost more than $1.3 billion over a decade.
In the final draft before the document was presented to cabinet, the report claims to be ''the most comprehensive review … ever undertaken'' of IT across government.
It blames successive Labor administrations for being ''slow to address the opportunities available'' and details similar moves outlined by consultant reports in 2003 and 2005.
Attempts to centralise IT began in earnest in 2003, but by 2008 Treasury was impatient with many IT departments and backed the creation of a statutory agency named CenItex.
After the confidential report passed cabinet, CenITex was allocated $96 million over four years. Two sources have told The Age some of this funding was taken from the IT budgets of major departments, and those departments were not told in advance.
CenITex employs more than 320 full-time staff, and last year it was revealed that one senior staff member received nearly $500,000.
Sources say CenITex has failed to meet its own internal benchmarks, and is trying to merge generic IT services for the departments of Health, Human Services, Justice, and Industry and Regional Development.
A CenITex spokesman said it was ''one year into a four-year program and we are on target to deliver the anticipated benefits''.
Sources also say CenITex chief executive Peter Blades has been involved in conflicts with departmental IT chiefs and has a rocky relationship with Treasury officials. Mr Blades declined to comment to The Age yesterday.
When CenITex first proposed merging email systems, IT specialists at the departments of Justice and Human Services were concerned CenItex was not offering the technology security required. |
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金融危机征文--自己的一点点感受 (2008-10-31) MingDeng 
发表于 2010-3-3 09:58
但现自由党也能不了那里去! 没多大希望?!
发表于 2010-3-5 12:28