The Australian Government Architecture (AGA) brings together shared resources and guidance for government agencies to assess digital solutions and inform digital investment.
It provides the guardrails for creating digital solutions that are relevant, reusable, easy to understand and aligned to the government's digital agenda.
The AGA plays a key role in the government’s commitment to a modern public service that puts people and business at the centre. It supports the Data and Digital Government Strategy, is integrated with the whole-of-government Digital and ICT Investment Oversight Framework (IOF) and contributes to successful adoption of GovTech practices.
The shared resources on the AGA help agencies deliver digital capabilities in a way that is consistent, interoperable, promotes reuse, reduces risk and maximises value for money.
AGA and the Data and Digital Government Strategy
The Data and Digital Government Strategy sets the vision that the Australian Government will deliver simple, secure, and connected public services, for all people and business by 2030.
The AGA helps government realise this vision. It brings together guidance materials which help agencies deliver capabilities faster and in a way that is consistent, interoperable, promotes reuse, reduces risk and maximises value for money.
AGA and the Digital and ICT Investment Oversight Framework (IOF)
The Australian Government needs to make the right digital and ICT-enabled investments at the right time and in the right way.
The AGA supports agencies through close integration with the IOF – a six-state, end-to-end framework used to manage digital investments across the entire project lifecycle.
In every state of the IOF, the AGA provides:
- architectural guidance that agencies must or should adhere to when developing and implementing digital and ICT solutions
- a common language of business capabilities to improve government’s ability to collaborate and streamline digital service delivery
- economies of scale by promoting re-use opportunities across Government
- provides guidance for strategic adoption of emerging technologies to better manage core Government functions.