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Huawei's Enterprise Business Group (BG) has released its strategic plan for partner business in 2021, which will see Huawei "continue to develop, nurture, motivate, and support partners through better investment and incentives to build an open, collaborative, mutually beneficial ecosystem."

Australian businesses expecting the hassles of the COVID-19 pandemic to vanish in 2021 are in for a rude shock, according to business analyst firm IBRS, which as also released a new report on the future of the IT space.

The Australian Government has accepted six of the 14 recommendations made by the 5G inquiry conducted by the House Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts, assessing the deployment, adoption and application of 5G in Australia.

The Australian Information Industry Association, the AIIA, has congratulated the QLD Labor Party and Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk on their election victory, but says innovation and digital tech jobs are needed to move the QLD economy forward.

Global spending on IT is trending down, with the technology analyst firm IDC says it now expects a drop of 5.1% to US$2.25 trillion due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic is driving digital transformation for enterprises in the Southeast Asia region (ASEAN) and will open up wider opportunities for carriers and service providers, according to a new report.

Analysts from global market intelligence provider IDC see a big showdown in spending on technology in 2020 across European ICT markets, with a halving of their own December 2019 forecast from 2.8% to 1.4% in regional spending growth rates. This comes in the wake of the measures taken across Europe to curb the spread of the coronavirus.

The Australian Government is hosting two technology industry roundtables over the next week to boost collaboration and tackle the global challenges and opportunities it says are facing the sector.

The Snowy Monaro Regional Council in the Snowy Mountains and Monaro region of NSW has selected software applications and managed services vendor Civica to meet its current and future ICT needs.

The Australian Information Industry Association claims a lack of relevant local skills and an effective Research and Development Taxation Incentive (R&DTI) program is holding back the local ICT industry.

ACS, the professional association for Australia’s ICT sector, has launched its "2018 ACS Australia’s Digital Pulse report in Sydney", showing 40,000 ICT jobs are likely to be created in NSW alone.

Australia’s Academic and Research Network AARNet has appointed 20-year scientific research and ICT veteran Dr Carina Kemp as the new director, eResearch.

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Australia's professional association for the ICT sector, the Australian Computer Society, has launched its "2018 ACS Australia’s Digital Pulse report", highlighting "Australia’s ICT workforce grew from 640,800 workers in 2016 to 663,100 workers in 2017, an increase of 3.5%".

The Australian Government has been urged not to trade off short-term budget savings for the country's long-term prosperity by making changes to the $3 billion R&D Tax Incentive and restricting claims for software R&D.

ICT architects are the top salary earners across Australia, according to the latest report on jobs and salaries from SEEK.

Don’t mind me, I’m just reporting on MYOB’s welcoming of the Australian Government’s 457 visa changes, in line with AIIA’s comments.

The Australian Information Industry Association, the nation’s “peak member body for the ICT industry”, has welcomed ICT amendments to 457 visas that address “critical skills shortages".

Information and communications technology jobs were the biggest category on the online jobs site SEEK during 2016, the company said today.