Accredited data users(Opens in a new tab/window): Commonwealth, state and territory government bodies, and Australian universities who are accredited to obtain and use Australian Government data under the DATA Scheme.
Accredited Data Service Provider(Opens in a new tab/window): an organisation or individual with technical expertise who can offer complex data integration services and/or data sharing on behalf of a Data Custodian.
Artificial Intelligence(Opens in a new tab/window) (AI): an engineered system that generates predictive outputs such as content, forecasts, recommendations or decisions for a given set of human-defined objectives or parameters without explicit programming. AI systems are designed to operate with varying levels of automation.
Australian Government Architecture(Opens in a new tab/window) (AGA): a collection of digital artefacts and guidance materials that can be used as a guide to inform its users on how to align to the digital direction of government.
Australian Public Service(Opens in a new tab/window) (APS): comprises entities that employ their staff under the Public Service Act 1999; includes all departments of state and some other entities.
Automated Decision Making(Opens in a new tab/window) (ADM): An automated system that builds on or around an administrative decision-making process.
Co-design(Opens in a new tab/window): the active involvement of a diverse range of participants in exploring, developing and testing responses to shared challenges. A simple way to understand co-design is to break it down into its parts. The ‘co’ is typically considered an abbreviation for ‘cooperative’ or ‘collaborative’ design while ‘design’ draws on the discipline of industrial design.
Critical technologies(Opens in a new tab/window): technologies that can impact Australia’s national interest, including our economic prosperity, national security and social cohesion.
Data(Opens in a new tab/window): any information in a form capable of being communicated, analysed or processed (whether by an individual or by computer or other automated means).
Data analytics(Opens in a new tab/window): describes processes or activities designed to obtain and evaluate data to extract useful information.
Data asset(Opens in a new tab/window): a structured collection of data developed for a purpose.
Data breach(Opens in a new tab/window): when personal information is accessed or disclosed without authorisation or is lost.
Data integration(Opens in a new tab/window): the process of combining data from two or more sources at the unit level (e.g. person and/or business).
Data matching(Opens in a new tab/window): the process of bringing together data from different sources and comparing it. Entities that carry out data-matching must comply with the Privacy Act 1988(Opens in a new tab/window).
Data maturity(Opens in a new tab/window): a measure of an organisation’s current data management capabilities and capacity.
DATA Scheme(Opens in a new tab/window): a scheme for sharing Australian Government data, underpinned by strong safeguards and consistent, efficient processes, and focused on increasing the availability and use of Australian Government data to deliver government services, inform better government policies and programs, and support world-leading research and development.
Digital by design(Opens in a new tab/window): the principle by which digital technologies and data are used to rethink and re-engineer public processes, simplify procedures and create new channels of communication and engagement with public stakeholder.
Digital government(Opens in a new tab/window): the use of digital technologies as an integrated part of governments’ modernisation strategies to create public value.
Digital ID(Opens in a new tab/window): of an individual means a distinct electronic representation of the individual that enables the individual to be sufficiently distinguished when interacting online with services.
Digital and ICT Investment Oversight Framework(Opens in a new tab/window): a six-state, end-to-end framework providing a way for the Government to manage digital investments across the entire project lifecycle.
Digital Service Standard(Opens in a new tab/window): a set of best-practice principles for designing and delivering government services. It helps digital teams to build services that are user-friendly, inclusive, adaptable, and measurable.
Entities(Opens in a new tab/window): in accordance with section 10 of the PGPA Act and includes Australian Government departments of state, bodies corporate and others.
Interoperability: the ability to transfer and use information in a uniform and efficient manner across multiple organisations and information technology systems.
Legacy technology(Opens in a new tab/window): an information system that may be based on outdated technologies but is critical to day-to-day operations.
Life event(Opens in a new tab/window): an event (planned or unplanned) in a person's life where they experience a major change; for example, the birth of a child.
Machine Learning: a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) and computer science which focuses on the use of data and algorithms to imitate the way humans learn.
Metadata(Opens in a new tab/window): the information that defines and describes the data.
Omni-channel(Opens in a new tab/window): the ability for users to switch service channels part way through a transaction.
Online services(Opens in a new tab/window): a digital service that facilitates interactions between two or more distinct but interdependent sets of users (whether firms or individuals) who interact through the service via the internet.
Open by Default(Opens in a new tab/window): when organisations make government data and policy-making processes available to the public, within the limits of existing legislation and in balance with national and public interest.
Personal information(Opens in a new tab/window): information or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable:
- whether the information or opinion is true or not; and
- whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not.
Request for information(Opens in a new tab/window): an approach to market to seek information from registered sellers. This approach is used when requirements are not clear or well defined.
Sensitive data(Opens in a new tab/window): personal information that includes information or an opinion about an individual’s:
- racial or ethnic origin
- political opinions or associations
- religious or philosophical beliefs
- trade union membership or associations
- sexual orientation or practices
- criminal record
- health or genetic information
- some aspects of biometric information.
Technical debt(Opens in a new tab/window): a broad term associated with the additional “owed” effort required to rework customised solutions, normally delivered off pattern to meet deadlines, or where there have been significant delays to maintenance of systems that are required to maintain stability and integrity.
Tell us once(Opens in a new tab/window): allows members of the public, if they choose, to tell government quickly and easily about a change in their details just once, saving time and expense for both them and the Government. This approach relies on secure data sharing with relevant government entities to ensure individuals do not have to provide the same information multiple times to different entities.
Value for money(Opens in a new tab/window): the use of public resources in an efficient, effective, ethical and economical manner. Value for money includes considering the financial and non-financial costs and benefits in the use of public resources.