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".
The University of Western Australia has flagged plans for a number of large new technology projects as it continues to standardise core ICT services. The institution has a total ongoing annual IT spend of around AU$16 million, excluding major projects.
The ACT Department of Education and Training has selected Australian assembler Optima as its exclusive supplier of PC hardware and services for the next four years.
Seventy-five Catholic schools in western Sydney and their central administration office are expected to be linked by wireless network under a project now underway.
Storage company StorageTek has developed an accredited storage certification in conjunction with NSW TAFE.
Deakin University finds a new solution to the ever-increasing demand for storage backup while facing rapid growth across its campuses, IT director Craig Warren tells ZDNet Australia.
Storage company StorageTek has developed an accredited storage certification in conjunction with NSW TAFE.
Providing a blended solution in order to provide e-learning to its managers was one of the criteria for St George Bank when it was planning a recent implementation.
The average annual salary of an Australian IT professional is currently $82,507, according to an extensive survey of the sector recently conducted by ZDNet.com.au.
Working out an IT governance scheme when you have 600,000 users in place is a challenge, but stricter project management has been so successful for the Department of Education in Victoria that the government agency is now adopting the same methodology even for non-IT projects.
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