CSIRO's Information Management & Technology team has won the 2012 Excellence in eGovernment Awards: Project and Program Management Category. The award was received for their Research Data Service program.

The Awards website, describes the CSIRO Research Data Service (RDS) as follows:

The CSIRO Research Data Service (RDS) is a ground-breaking program designed to establish capabilities to facilitate the capture, description, access and retrieval of CSIRO's research data assets. The RDS program has successfully brought together national and international stakeholders, and supported the data management requirements of the enterprise while simultaneously meeting the data-related needs of the wide range of specific CSIRO research domains. Data provided through the RDS is now being accessed by researchers worldwide. Since its initial release in 2011, there have been thousands of searches and downloads of data that will lead to new and unexpected discoveries being made. For CSIRO scientists RDS provides an important means of protecting, disseminating and preserving our scientific results for the future.

RDS, funded by the ANDS: Seeding the Commons program, provides a platform to search and access CSIRO data at: Data Access Portal.