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  • Offshoring on the rise: Meta

    The average enterprise will offshore around 60 percent of its application work by 2009, according to IT research group Meta. The figure will reach that point after escalating by nearly 20 percent annually each year through to 2008.

  • Nine Network: In-house ICT 'significantly' cheaper

    The Nine Network's chief information officer believes his expert internal staff are better at delivering cost-effective ICT services compared to offshored or outsourced consultants.

  • Australia has nothing to fear from off-shoring: expert

    Australia is up to the off-shoring challenge, according to international software expert Dr Philip Lehman, despite statistics from the Australian Computer Society (ACS) predicting a loss of 4000 ICT jobs by 2009.

  • Offshoring takes centre stage in election

    Coalition ICT Minister Helen Coonan yesterday delivered a vigorous reply to Labor's IT industry policy announcement, claiming the opposition was trying to "freeze Australia in time" over its approach to off-shoring.

  • Offshoring: more consideration needed

    Although offshoring is becoming a popular trend, companies need to consider all the consequences before sending work overseas.

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  • Nine Network: In-house ICT 'significantly' cheaper

    The Nine Network's chief information officer believes his expert internal staff are better at delivering cost-effective ICT services compared to offshored or outsourced consultants.

  • Do Australian ICT workers matter?

    Claims that Australia suffers from an ICT skills shortage is simply unfounded but the lack of support from the government and industry associations to counter these assertions has left workers in the lurch.

  • The ICT labour market: Where agendas collide

    Companies want cheap labour, universities depend on international student dollars, industry needs key skills, and local graduates just want a job. Mark Wheeler investigates the drama playing out over the ICT labour market.

  • IT businesses: gotta go global

    Businesses in the Australian IT sector might be able to earn a living by staying small, but for long-term survival they will have to look offshore.

  • Fed ICT Minister backs Telstra-IBM job export

    The office of the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts has backed Telstra's decision to use offshore software developers.

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