The Tasmanian Government has put out a call to the information and communications technology industry for suggestions on how to best use the National Broadband Network and Digital Education Revolution for the students of the state.
The Department of Defence today invited the ICT industry to tender for major defence contracts, some of which will run through July, 2011.
Alcatel-Lucent has confirmed plans to cut 200 local contracting and permanent staff, citing the completion of projects and investment uncertainties as the prime motivators for the move.
Former CEO of the Australian Computer Society Kim Denham has taken the society to the Federal Court for misleading or deceptive conduct.
Last Wednesday, Premier Bligh addressed Queenland's ICT industry at an Australian Computer Society and Australian Information Industry Association luncheon.
Patch Monday makes its timely return and is armed with another week of stories, interviews and rumours to digest.
Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector.
While we continue to talk about Australia's ICT skills shortage, more than 3,000 potential sponsorships are being blocked by impediments to the 457 visa scheme.
Until this month, we had no uniform-approach ICT curricula in higher education institutions, and no formal link connecting these institutions with industry.
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.
Australia needs to do more to de-couple itself from an over-reliance on the boom or bust impacts that the US ICT Industry brings to Australia's own ICT industry.
The key for organisations wanting to learn how to best utilise Twitter lies in understanding the subtle differences between it and other social networking tools.
Stephen Conroy's opus on the future direction of Australia's Digital Economy mainly curates existing success stories and government policies, and does little to demonstrate any form of roadmap to take the nation out of the Dark Ages.
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A series of inspiring conversations with Australian chief information officers over the past five years has led me to believe the profession and ICT industry as a whole has the attitude, skills and drive to push through the global financial crisis and other challenges to the better world ahead.
CeBIT Australia 2007 kicked off yesterday with federal Communications minister Senator Helen Coonan saying that a thriving ICT industry was key to the country's economic growth.
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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