In collaboration with the Digital Transformation Agency, we have released the 2025 Implementation Plan for the Data and Digital Government Strategy – the Government’s vision to deliver simple, secure and connected public services through world class data and digital capabilities by 2030.
The 2025 Implementation Plan provides an update on progress against the Strategy, and highlights achievements and next steps across 4 interconnected priorities:
- Artificial Intelligence – driving responsible adoption and capability across the APS.
- Data – strengthening governance and treating data as a national asset.
- Connected Services – delivering simpler, more accessible services built around life events.
- Cyber, Trust and Resilience – ensuring security and maintaining public confidence in government systems.
The Implementation Plan shows through multiple real-life use cases what the Government is doing to deliver outcomes, boost productivity and protect Australians as more services are delivered online.
Strengthening data capability to support better decision making
Data helps the Government understand what people need and where they need it. It underpins high-quality digital services and informs evidence-based decisions. That’s why we’re working to help agencies across the public service build their data capabilities.
Key achievements against data targets highlighted in the 2025 Implementation Plan include:
- Data Maturity Assessment Tool: a new tool designed to help agencies measure and track their data maturity over time.
- Data Governance Framework: a general resource for all public servants to help build their data governance processes and capability.
- Statutory Review of the Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022: to consider the effectiveness of the Act and whether it improves public sector data availability, sharing and transparency.
- Digital Atlas of Australia: a central platform bringing together national data to help visualise, analyse and explore Australia’s geography, economy, people and environment data.
- National Health Data Hub: a major national data linkage system for health and welfare research and analysis.
Other key Finance-led initiatives outlined in the 2025 Implementation Plan include the APS AI Plan and Australia’s Digital ID system.
For a full breakdown of use cases and what we’re doing to uplift data capability, visit the 2025 Implementation Plan on the dataanddigital.gov.au website.
