News
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Excellence acknowledged
At the conference dinner, awards were presented to teams and individuals in seven categories. Paul Molan and Jason Davey from Manningham City Council took out…
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A capital city perspective
Speaking at the LGPro annual conference Chief Executive Officer of the City of Melbourne, David Pitchford, spoke about Council’s collegiate approach in becoming a major…
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Historic meeting of Melbourne Metropolitan Mayors
On 22 February 2006, the City of Melbourne Lord Mayor, John So, hosted the first ever gathering of Melbourne metropolitan mayors. Twenty mayors from across…
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Mosman boosts service delivery with DataWorks Web integration*
Mosman Municipal Council is using its document management system, Avand’s DataWorks, to process and share information across core business applications, making it available for review…
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Virtual apartment to keep noise down
The popularity of inner city living has resulted in more people opting for city apartments. In an Australian first, the City of Melbourne, together with…
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Connecting communities across the Territory
The Local Government Association of the Northern Territory (LGANT) has many information technology initiatives up its sleeve to improve the online capabilities of Councils in…
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Modern help desk needs modern tools*
Since the inception of the ‘computer age’, organisations large and small have struggled with the best mechanism for supporting the users of this ever changing…
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Future Directions in Information Technology and Communications
Future Directions is a regular feature. This month we interviewed Jeff Carson, Chief Information Officer, City of Whitehorse, Victoria. Jeff Carson has been Chief Information…
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One stop electronic shop encourages Murrayland youth to get involved
Created by young people, for young people, the Murraylands Youth Website is a one stop electronic shop for this region of South Australia. Located 80…
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IH2 a formula for future living
Along with leading environmental developer, Heritage Pacific, and a host of sponsors and government organisations, Gold Coast City Council has developed Innovation House 2 (IH2).…
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Local Government Corporate Planners using hi tech to shape the future
Victoria’s LGPro Special Interest Groups offer an excellent opportunity to bring together Local Government professionals working in specific interest areas for peer support and professional…
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Revolutionising planning meetings with Zing*
Max Dumais is widely known as the Zing man because he installs and trains facilitators to use this electronic meeting system, but he is no…



