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  • Labor digital education revolution about to COAGulate

    The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) is currently undertaking an audit into the state of IT in Australian secondary schools, with comments made by Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday confirming that the "digital divide" is a real phenomena.

  • Liberals lost for words over Labor laptop plan

    The Opposition spokesperson for education has accused the Labor government of trying to back-pedal on its commitment to provide a laptop for every student between years 9 and 12.

  • Rudd wants computer cooperation

    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called for the NSW state government to toe the line on the federal plan to provide computers to all schools nationwide.

  • Aussie schools get first $116m in PC funds

    The first round of funding for Labor's plan to put a laptop on every desk AU$116 million is winging its way to 896 schools for over 100,000 computers.

  • Gillard opens coffers for tech-starved schools

    Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, has announced that the first round of funding for Labor's digital education revolution has begun, and urged priority listed schools to apply for grants under the AU$1 billion initiative.

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  • Rudd awakening: Govt's plans for ICT

    Ahead of the election, with promises for nationwide broadband networks and digital revolutions in schools, the ICT industry could hope the government was on their side. But now the glamour of a sparkling new government has worn off, how ICT-friendly is the Rudd government really?

  • India 2.0: Yahoo sees development potential

    In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.

  • Offshoring: A view from both shores

    Wipro CEO Vivek Paul ponders the implications of a US that graduates more sports therapists than engineers.

  • King Kaz: building an Aussie IT empire

    Going against conventional wisdom, Peter Kazacos built Kaz Computer Services on the principal of quietly and strategically taking on markets where the barriers to entry are high. He talks to ZDNet Australia about how his empire was made.

  • Good bosses: Endangered species?

    From the wilds of the IT jungles, columnist Jeff Dray documents the 10 most dangerous species of IT manager. Find out if you or your manager fit into the genus described in this article.

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