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Building digital capability to drive transformation
Building digital capability to drive
transformation
28 July 2017
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Programs to lift the digital skills of the Australian Public Service are being designed and
delivered by the DTA as part of the government’s digital transformation agenda.
Assistant Minister for Digital Transformation, Angus Taylor, said skilled staff were crucial to
delivering effective digital services and the government needs to keep up with the private
sector.
“We want the next group of digital superstars to see government as a great place to start their
career,” Assistant Minister Taylor said.
The DTA’s ICT Entry-Level programs bring new talent into digital roles across government. Up
to 1000 people are expected to apply for the current intake in which 200 apprentices and
cadets will be placed in government agencies. This will be the largest intake in the programs’
10 year history which has seen over 1000 people start their digital careers in government.
Applications for the DTA’s 2018 apprenticeship program (/who-we-are/corporate/jobs/) close 4
August and cadetship program close 11 August. For more information on entry level training
programs visit the
DTA website (/what-we-do/policies-and-programs/ict-entry/).
The DTA has also kicked off discovery work with the Australian Public Service Commission to
build capability through a number of digital literacy training programs. These programs will
focus on upskilling staff, developing digital skills at a senior executive level, and attracting and
retaining digital talent within the public service.
Read the
media release (https://ministers.pmc.gov.au/taylor/2017/high-demand-digital-skills-
training-government-boosts-investment-it-capability)
Gavin Slater: The DTA has a vital role role to play in building digital capability across
government, and my vision is for us to create an environment where we can bring staff
from government through the DTA, get them to work on real issues and real problems,
using techniques like user-centred design, rapid prototyping, building a solution, testing it,
being prepared to fail and try again.
Michelle Norris: The Australian Government ICT Entry-Level Programs help build the
digital capability of government by ensuring we have the right skills and the right people
to address the emerging ICT technologies and issues the government has to face in the
future.
The Entry-Level Programs has a really strong focus on increasing diversity amongst our ICT
employees. It’s an area agencies are particularly focused on at the moment.
We have around 40% of our ICT workforce are female and the entry level programs are
one means that agencies can use to increase their female participation in the ICT
workforce.
Libby Varcoe: People expect us to be doing really good things, they expect a very high
service level from the Australian Government.
People don’t go to government because they want to. It’s because they either have to or
they need to, and we really need to honour that and make sure that’s a seamless
experience.
By bringing in new skills, by mixing it up, by really challenging ourselves within our
disciplines.
How are we doing this? We’re creating communities of practice to nurture and encourage
collaboration and share ideas.
We’re creating guidance from the DTA to really support the work that’s being done and to
support the Digital Service Standard as well.
Gary Broadbent: The key products that I’m working on at the moment are the UI Kit and
the Design Guide.
What that product involves and delivers is really a design system and a pattern library, and
what that brings to government is guidance and documentation on usability, accessibility,
and general guidance about how you might implement those patterns.
Rod Molina: We build those skills by working in partnership with agencies. What we do is
we go and we work together. We bring all the hard skills, but more importantly we bring
the experience doing it — aiming always for building a new culture — how we can work
better together, how we can collaborate and how we can build better services for our
users.
Jo Hill: Personally I’ve been working on a day to day level with a number of individuals at a
department, helping to essentially train them up as user researchers.
We’ve been having them shadow me, conducting sessions and performing analysis, and
we’ve transitioned slowly to a place where they’re able to lead sessions, to design
conversations, to do rigorous analysis, and also to be able to communicate the value of
what they’re leaning widely within their organisation.
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