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NSW GOVERNANCE ICT BOARD
BE AWARE OF PAST ADVICE BY ICT ADVISORY COMMITTEES & BOARD
A Philip GAETJENS (Chair), Secretary, The Treasury
B Blair COMLEY, Secretary, Department of Premier and Cabinet
C Dr Michele BRUNIGES, Secretary, Department of Education
and Communities
D Dr Mary FOLEY, Secretary, NSW Ministry of Health
E Mark PATERSON AO, Secretary, Department of Trade and
Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services
F David STEWART, Secretary, Transport for NSW
G Andrew CAPPIE-WOOD, Secretary, Department of Police and
Justice
H Michael COUTTS-TROTTER, Secretary, Department of Family
and Community Services
I Michael PRATT, Customer Service Commissioner, Chair of
the Service NSW Board
J Anthony WONG, Chair of the ICT Advisory Panel
Mon 30 Mar 2015 Recipient:61214Ia1
REF:ACAGCUN1 Y/R: NSW Digital Economy
IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
Philip GAETJENS E: contact@treasury.nsw.gov.au
Chair NSW Governance ICT Board F: {61}(2)9976-2993
NSW TREASURY M: {61}(0)
127 Phillip St SYDNEY 2000 P: {61}(2)9228-4567
Dear Mr GAETJENS cc Members Parliament
BE AWARE OF PAST ADVICE OF ICT ADVISORY COMMITTEES & BOARDS
Further to our letters Thu 12 Mar 2015 and Mon 23 Mar 2015 re "Data
Interoperability Standards" please be aware of past advice by ICT
Advisory Boards on National Information Technology Public Issues
Examples of these ICT Advisory Boards include:
A Standards Australia IS/11 EDI Advisory Committee 1988-1989
B Y2K Advisory Committee 1998-2000
C ebXML Australia 2000-2002
D Standards Australia IT-027 Committee AS4590 2005-2006
E National Electronic Health Transition Authority [NEHTA] 2005-2016
A Standards Australia IS/11 EDI Advisory Committee 1988-1989
The IS/11 EDI Advisory Committee was established by Standards Australia
to assist Australian Business to understand the issues involved with
Electronic Data Interchange [EDI]
The Committee comprised representatives of 26 different Australian Business
Associations
In Jul 1988 Key members on that committee including Arthur Andersen {Att A}
representing a key Australian business association and members of the Australian
Bankers Association forced through the adoption of the American ANSI-X12
EDI Standard rather than the ISO Standard ISO-9735
In Jul 1993 it was Arthur Andersen LLP and Andersen Consulting that sponsored
a series of Seminars "Inventing the Australian Model of Government" in each
Australian State
According to WikipediA "In 2002 Arhtur Andersen LLP voluntarily surrendered its
licenses to practice as Certified Public Accountants in the United States after
being found guilty of criminal charges relating to the firm's handling of the
auditing of Enron, an energy corporation based in Texas, which had filed for
bankruptcy in 2001 and later failed
While Andersen Consulting the former consultancy and outsourcing arm of the firm,
now known as Accenture, which had separated from the accountancy side in 1987 and
renamed themselves after splitting from Andersen Worldwide in 2000, continues to
operate and has become one of the largest multinational corporations in the world"
B Y2K Advisory Committee 1998-2000
In 1998 the Australian Government established its Y2K Advisory Committee chaired
by the Australian Managing Director of a US Software company
According to a report dated 18 Aug 2005 by John QUIGGIN of Queensland University
the Y2K checking and remediation expenditure in Australia was estimated at
A$ 12 Billion and US$ 500 Billion Worldwide with "most money spent specifically on
Y2K Compliance exercises was wasted" {Att B}
C ebXML Australia 2000-2002
The ebXML Australia Committee were aware of the deficiencies that there was not a
standard name and address format for ebusiness
On 05 Feb 2002 Mark BEZZINA of Standards Australia chaired a sub-committee and actively
participated on that Committee yet did not ensure that there was a single address format
in the finalised standard AS4590 when it was published on 27 Oct 2006
On 10 Jan 2004 the ebXML Forum announced the release of BizDex with Steve CAPELL of Red
Wahoo as one of the companies building BizDex and the Australian Wheat Board [AWB] as
an early user to "reduce supply chain costs" {Att F - ebXML Forum 10 Jan 2004}
D Standards Australia IT-027 Data Management & Interchange Committee 2005-2006
In Oct 2006 Standards Australia IT-027 Committee published AS4590-2006 "Interchange of
Client Information" with 3 different addressing aspects "Addressing within a complex",
"primary address" and "unstructured address"
In the published document Red Wahoo is accredited as being one of the contributors to
the standard {Att C}
E National Electronic Health Transition Authority [NEHTA] 2005-2016
"The National Electronic Health Transition Authority [NEHTA] was established in
July 2005 as a collaborative enterprise by the Australian Commonwealth, State and
Territory governments to identify and develop the necessary foundations for electronic
health (eHealth).[1]
NEHTA aims to unlock eHealth system aspects and improve the ways in which information
is electronically collected and exchanged."[2]
In 2011 the NEHTA IT Advisory Committee published 8 "Candidate Standards" for eHealth
Applications {Att D}
7 of these Candidate Standards are proprietary Standards owned by companies
The other standard is UN/EDIFACT ISO-9735
On 27 Mar 2015 NEHTA still listed on its web-site Supply Chain Reform {Att E}
"There is a lack of standardized location identification"
As at 21 Jun 2015 the NHETA web-page is missing so here is a hard copy print-out
of the NEHTA - Supply Chain reform
NEXT STEPS
We would ask to meet with the Board to discuss important changes necessary
for effective Data Interoperability between Government Agencies
Yours sincerely
Peter AXTENS LLB (Retired)
Official Agent
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK [SAN]
{61}(0)416-009-468 Public Officer
Att
A 1988-Jul-05 Arthur Anderson IS/11 Committee
B 2005 Y2K A$ 12 Billion wasted in Australia US$ 500 Billion worldwide
C 2006-08-27 IT-027 AS4590 Release "Interchange of Client Information"
D 2011 NEHTA - 8 Candidate Standards
E 2015 NEHTA - Supply Chain reform
F 2004-01-10 ebXML Forum release BizDex with Australian Wheat Board [AWB]
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