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Featured, Features - Tuesday, September 27, 2011 15:43 - 0 Comments
Kwan after the storm:
Immigration’s new CIO charts a fresh path
profile When Australia’s technology industry thinks about the Federal Department of Immigration and Citizenship, it is overwhelmingly one project which comes to mind. A giant, lumbering mammoth of an initiative; a gargantuan behemoth which spanned half a decade, involved hundreds of staff, and soaked up many hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.
That behemoth named Systems for People.
The project was first approved in the 2006 Budget as a mammoth technology overhaul of DIAC’s IT systems, following the damning Palmer and Comrie reports — especially stemming from the unlawful detention of Cornelia Rau. The project was initially valued at $495 million but attracted several budget increases. Much of that funding went to companies like IBM, Oracle and CSC, who worked at the core of the overhaul, predominantly focused on immigration records, but slabs also went to pay a small army of staff employed by DIAC itself.
As the project wore on over the succeeding half-decade since its genesis, it would vault the public servant responsible for it into the public limelight, as similar massive IT overhauls at the Australian Taxation Office, the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service and even the Commonwealth Bank had done before it.
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