As the nation’s trusted source of information on Australia’s Earth sciences, our organisation empowers decision making by government, communities and industry. The Geoscience Australia Data and Digital Strategy 2028 (the strategy) supports our organisation to deliver this work and maintain our reputation as a trusted advisor to all stakeholders. The Strategy supports the delivery of Earth science excellence through contemporary data-and-digital capability by:​ - ​Ensuring stakeholder needs and science outcomes are at the centre of our data and digital activities​ - Optimising investment to deliver and maintain the highest value solutions​ - Building and sustaining our data and digital capabilities​ - Bolstering corporate functions and roles by leveraging data and digital to drive efficiencies and organisational performance ​

Fuelled by a virtual explosion in digital capabilities the world is changing very fast and the field of Geoscience is no exception. Geoscience Australia (GA) has undergone a rapid digital transformation in the past 5 years. This has in part been driven by increasing organisational ICT costs, and partly by whole of government and more broadly global changes to the digital environment such as; growth in data, cheaper, more available cloud and infrastructure, new advances in AI and ML, new models for continuous development (DevOps) and public expectations that data will be available and accessible. The overarching principle of Geoscience Australia's Digital Strategy 2019-22 acknowledges that GA’s Enterprise ICT is inherently integrated with scientific data and ICT requirements, and more broadly these are the foundation of the digital science we are respected for at GA. As such, this strategy brings all three of these components together in a whole of agency digital strategy. The Digital Strategy focuses on strong foundations, systematic experimentation, data-driven science and digital culture and capability. Eighteen different strategies lie under these themes to help guide GA's focus for the next 3 years. There are also a number of high level KPI’s designed to help us measure our success.