ACS calls for incentives to attract ICT investment to NSW

Peter Dinham
Monday, 22 June 2009 10:43

Business IT - Technology

“We would like to see increased effort devoted to incentives to attract ICT investment and business to NSW. In these tough financial times, there is a need to increase private sector development and to improve our ICT service capabilities to better NSW’s position on the global stage,” Wong added.

According to the ACS, it supports the rollout of the digital education revolution including the investment of $47 million in the Connected Classroom initiative, which it says will help create a high tech learning environment for NSW students and teachers. It also noted that the NSW budget included an undertaking for a whole-of-government expenditure review of ICT, and called on the NSW Government to “harmonise the outcomes of this review to take into account the outcomes of the Federal Government’s Gershon Review of ICT expenditure.”

Wong also said he strongly encouraged the NSW Government to make a concerted effort to implement professional development strategies encompassing career development, retraining, recruitment and retention programs, which he claimed would help the Government to “improve the way it recognises, values and nurtures the essential ICT skills needed by all Government departments.”