The Australian Government is the largest ICT buyer in Australia, spending an estimated $3.5 billion on ICT through 35,000 contracts each year. Read more

AIIA’s Developing Business Skills for ICT Entrepreneurs program continues to deliver outstanding results for the business leaders of the future.

Each of the twenty three small business owners and managers who participated in the third module of the program were again impressed with the peer networking and learning opportunities, and particularly with the quality of speakers.Read more

AIIA sadly reports the passing of dedicated ICT education advocate and respected academic, Professor John Hughes, who died suddenly in his home on Friday, 17 March. Read more

AIIA is seeking a major partner for The Bulletin in 2006/2007.

The Bulletin is AIIA’s fortnightly e-newsletter, providing industry updates, market research, background on key policy issues and details of member-only events and activities. In 2005, The Bulletin expanded its content and readership, building on AIIA’s solid reputation as the voice of the ICT industry. Read more

Exhibitors and visitors are counting down the days to CeBIT Australia 2006, the largest ICT event in the Australasian region. Read more

AIIA and the West Australian Government are working together to increase business opportunities for the local ICT industry.

AIIA’s innovative new program, CollabIT, will provide like-minded companies with the opportunity to form collaborative networks, or clusters, to source new markets and increase sales. Read more

Led by State Chairman, John Vickers, AIIA’s Queensland Committee members are a talented mix of people from the breadth of the state’s ICT industry.

Find out more about AIIA’s leaders in Queensland, who will be profiled in The Bulletin over the coming weeks. This week, we reveal what Martin Lack, Kirsty Garrett and Julie Jackaby bring to the Queensland Committee… Read more

The United States federal and state governments are the largest purchasers of goods and services in the world – federal government procurements alone total more than $200 billion and of this, ICT procurements account for $60 billion. Read more

New Zealand is known as an early adopter of new products, services, methods and systems. Its competitive strength lies in creative technical innovation and the ability to be rapidly adaptive within a low cost structure. New Zealand also has a business and product development environment that is conducive to start-ups. This is illustrated by the significant number of ICT companies – more than 7,700. Read more

Want another way to identify good graduates…early?

You can access talented and enthusiastic students from both Queensland University of Technology (QUT) or University of Queensland (UQ), via one contact point… the CEED Program. Read more

Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing
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6 April: Queensland - SME Marketing Workshop
11 April: Victoria - Can partnering with an international company help your business?
12 April: Canberra Managers’ Forum
1-3 May: Texas - Special Registration Price for WCIT 2006
4 May: Victoria - AIIA Marketing Forum Melbourne Read more