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Environment Protection Authority Victoria (EPA) has kicked off a large-scale project it hopes will completely transform the way it manages data and consequently the environment.
The digital transformation follows an inquiry the Victorian government held into the EPA. As part of the government's response to a resulting report and recommendations, the government funded the EPA to undergo an organisational transformation.
According to CIO Chris Moon, technology was highlighted as a "significant part" of enabling the organisation to undergo that transformation.
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The state threw in AU$182.4 million to transform EPA into a "world class" regulator that was "equipped to address current and future challenges".
Responsible for regulating everything environment-related in the state, from a person tossing a cigarette out a car window through to large industrial chemical factories, Moon said the organisation took a look at how its overall technology infrastructure needed to change to support all of the data it will be faced with in future.
"One of the recommendations was that EPA needs to be able to use data and analytics a lot better than it did previously," Moon said. "Our systems have really been built around very much process-centric systems and technologies, and what we're looking at as we move into the proliferation of