Secretaries’ ICT Governance Board (SIGB)
The Secretaries’ ICT Governance Board (SIGB), which reports to a ministerial committee, drives the Government’s ICT Reform Agenda. It replaces the former Secretaries' Committee on ICT (SCICT).
Terms of Reference
The SIGB is a committee of Secretaries and Chief Executives representative of central bodies, portfolio departments, delivery agencies and selected senior business executives from companies outside the information and communication technology (ICT) sector which are successful users of ICT. Membership of SIGB is to be rotated from time to time.
The SIGB supports, and is accountable to, the Expenditure Review Committee (ERC) for the implementation of the Government’s response to the Review of the Australian Government’s use of ICT.
The SIGB will be supported by the Chief Information Officers’ Committee (CIOC), the Business Process Transformation Committee (BPTC), and the Chief Information Officers’ Forum (CIOF).
The SIGB will:
- oversee the implementation of the Government’s response to the Review of the Australian Government’s use of ICT by Sir Peter Gershon and provide regular reports on progress to the Expenditure Review Committee (ERC);
- develop whole-of-government strategies to implement the policies and strategic vision determined by the ERC;
- be responsible for determining priority areas for standardisation, consolidation and common approaches based on demonstrated business value to the Government ;
- develop and agree the criteria to be used to assess agency requests for opt-outs from agreed common approaches and provide advice to the ERC - on request from agencies - for opt-outs from agreed common approaches;
- be responsible for the strategic portfolio management of ICT investments across FMA Act agencies;
- review on an annual basis key trends in the Government’s ICT expenditure and alert the ERC to any significant changes;
- be responsible for determining the Government’s response to emerging ICT trends and issues; and
- consider and review the Australian Government Information Management Office’s (AGIMO) annual work plan.
Contact for information on this page: sigb@finance.gov.au