Government Adoption of ICT

The federal government (and the states) tend to adopt the latest in ICT very slowly. A couple of potential reasons for that are:

• Budget - their budgets are often decided years in advance which makes them less flexible.
• Size - it becomes very expensive to move to a new platform when you have to upgrade hundreds if not thousands of computers.
• Security - they often deal with sensitive information which make it paramount that the solution chosen is secure and tried and tested.