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Government procurement changes herald new future for ICT contractors
AIIA will continue to press governments throughout Australia to revise ICT procurement arrangements following decisions by the Federal and Victorian Governments to change ICT contract conditions.
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New scheme to boost business opportunities for SME’s
AIIA and the Victorian Government are joining forces in an attempt to increase business opportunities for Victorian based ICT companies.
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Internet Governance agreed to by WSIS Summit
The benefits of AIIA’s involvement with the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and its campaign with the Federal Government for an open, accessible, secure and dynamic multi-stakeholder internet were realised in Tunis recently. With Australia chief among the countries supporting the move, the summit endorsed the current framework for internet governance and agreed that the existing arrangements giving the private sector the leading role in day-to-day internet operations had made it a highly robust, dynamic, open medium, with global reach. Through its efforts working with 67 like minded member associations from the World Information Technical and Services Alliance (WITSA), AIIA provided additional leverage which helped to influence the summit’s decision to endorse the current framework for internet governance. Members of WITSA, including AIIA, actively lobbied their respective governments to press for maintenance of the internet as an independent entity. Welcoming the outcome, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, said it was a laudable achievement given the diverse range of interests represented by the more than 15,000 delegates from 176 countries attending the summit. “Australia’s active engagement in this process has ensured that our interest in preserving an operationally stable, secure and innovation-orientated internet has been met,” Senator Coonan said. In other decisions the summit called for renewed efforts to tackle issues of internet use and misuse in areas such as spam, cyber security, cyber crime, cyber-terrorism, privacy and consumer protection. It also endorsed a proposal to convene a new multi-stakeholder forum, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in 2006. The IGF will be a neutral, non-duplicative and nonbinding process to identify and explore internet-related issues and to build commitment to action where required, but will not have any oversight function on implementation. |
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AIIA Brisbane member receives major accolade in Russia
An AIIA member based in Queensland, Mincom Pty Ltd, has won a top Russian international business award. Read more |
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FTA website launched
The Australian Government has launched a new website specifically to provide information on Australia’s Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). |
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SMEs trading overseas offered online payment facility
A new online payment system, http://myexports.com.au, has been developed to give small to medium sized exporters a reliable and cost-effective way to make overseas sales. Read more |
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Federal Government to adopt gateway review process
The Australian Government is to introduce a new project management process known as Gateway to improve the delivery of major ICT projects. Read more |
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R&D Infrastructure Strategy submissions close this week
Organisations and individuals have until Friday to make submissions to a draft of the federal government’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) which is being developed to bring greater strategic direction and coordination to national research infrastructure investments. Read more |
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Australia included in UK survey on women in ICT
A forum for women in the UK’s ICT industry is taking positive steps to improve the opportunities and retention rate for women in Britain’s IT Industry and it wants to include Australia in the process. Read more |
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Institutions seek partners for student programs
Higher education institutions in Queensland and the ACT are seeking partners in the ICT industry to provide opportunities for students. |
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NSW TAFE offers contacts for curriculum development
AIIA member, TAFE NSW, is seeking contractors from within the ICT industry to help with the institution’s curriculum and training product development for its Business, Art and IT Curriculum Centre. Read more |
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IT Mentors Alliance to help Sri Lanka ICT industry
An employee of AIIA member company Anite International (Australia) Pty Ltd, Jane McInnes, who represented the AIIA as part of a trade mission to Bangladesh and Thailand last year, is heading overseas again. |
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The Motivations and Cost of Virtualisation
By Tony Iams, SVP & Senior Analyst – Ideas International
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AIIA’s Melbourne Business Briefing: Salary and Employment Trends – predictions for 2006 |
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