The Tasmanian Government is being pressured to update some of its ICT services.

Many Tasmanians are reliant on the Tasmania Fire Service (TFS) website to know when they should be on alert, and possibly even evacuate their homes.

However, there is no mobile-friendly version of the site, leaving many users struggling to read the vital information.

TasICT president Martin Anderson says the Government to upgrade the platform, and review its other services too.

“The vast majority of Tasmanians have mobile phones and we know that they use them in an emergency, and it's vital that information about where fires are is easily available and easy to interpret on a small screen,” he said.

“The reality is that this is an investment that needs to be made to support public safety.”

Mr Anderson says that a lack of government investment means Tasmania “has been for some time” falling behind on delivering digital services.

The official site tas.gov.au is 16 years old, and one of 342 site the state pays to host and maintain.

“What the Tasmanian IT industry sees is that there's a lack of coordination in IT procurement across the Tasmanian Government,” Mr Anderson said.

“There's a very scattergun approach to IT service delivery from the Tasmanian Government, which means that there's lots of duplication across different agencies, and there's no long-term roadmap.

“This is key digital infrastructure for Tasmania, and it's not getting the focus that it needs.”

The Tasmanian Government has pointed to the recently released ‘Our Digital Future’ strategy as evidence it is working on the problem.

“The high-level principles and objectives of Our Digital Future were informed by international, national and local research, trends and industry collaboration,” Science and Technology Minister Michael Ferguson said.

“The strategy reflects the drivers, vision and future goals articulated in the Digital Foundations Business Case.”

But Mr Anderson says the strategy does not go far enough, and includes no budgets or dates attached to the goals outlined.