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  • Moon over AIIA, caretaker CEO may take it all

    The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has announced that current CEO, Sheryle Moon, will be departing at the end of this week.

  • Tech SMEs try to innovate but flounder under forms

    The Federal Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) announced this week that it will conduct a review of Australia's national innovation system with the aim of cutting the red tape for inventive tech SMEs.

  • Aussie IT 'must help with Labor education revolution'

    After Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement last week that Labor plans to turn every school in Australia digital, representatives of the country's IT industry are calling on the new government to establish a trade advisory group to assist in implementing its "education revolution".

  • AIIA's Moon presses Conroy for broadband timetable

    Australian Information Industry Association CEO Sheryle Moon has called upon the new Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, to outline a schedule for rolling out a national broadband network.

  • AIIA reveals post-election wish list

    Industry body, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), is ramping up plans to meet with the new government.

Blogs (7)

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Male-dominated workforce costs AU $47bn a year

    Restricting women's job opportunities costs the Asia Pacific region up to $47 billion each year.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    ICT leaders can overcome the skills shortage

    Is the ICT industry's staff retention issue due to the poor quality of leadership in our sector?

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    ICT creating a greener footprint

    As our nation comes to grips with the implications of global warming, technology has the potential to be a major part of the solution to our CO2 challenges.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    Going green for IT

    According to research firm Gartner, by 2010 75 percent of organisations will use "full life cycle energy" and CO2 footprint as mandatory PC hardware buying criteria.

  • Read the blog post - Sheryle Moon

    The Aussie dollar and ICT

    With the Australian Dollar breaking the 92 US cents barrier recently, and predictions it could reach parity with the US Dollar by Christmas, there's good news and bad news for the ICT industry.

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  • Don't like offshoring? Get over it, says AIIA

    Overseas outsourcing is here to stay, so there is no point trying to prevent it, the Australian Information Industry Association's executive director, Rob Durie, said today.

  • ZDNet Australia CIO of the year

    Cesare Tizi, who was the chief information officer at Australia's largest energy supplier AGL Energy, has been awarded the title of ZDNet Australia CIO of the year 2007.

  • In cyberspace, no one can hear you scheme

    Second Life, with an alleged population of 7.979 million, is changing the way businesses think about what their customers want, and whether "virtual" is a viable way to give it to them.

  • The rights and wrongs of WiMax

    When the government announced that Optus and Elders had won the bid to build Australia's bush broadband network, it provoked jeers and plaudits alike, but it was the ISPs' choice of WiMax as the bearer technology that has provoked the most furious storm of argument. Just how will the technology stand up to life in the bush?

  • AU industry bodies conflict over ICT job status

    The brawl over the true state of information and communications technology (ICT) employment has taken another twist with the Australian Information Industry Association's (AIIA) release of figures indicating the market is stabilising.

Videos (1)

  • Why women just don't want IT

    IT is perceived as nerdy, blokey and boring, but the problem in attracting more women to the ICT industry may not lie with the fairer sex per se.

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