Displaying items by tag: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

OpenText, announced a partnership with Yirigaa, a sovereign Aboriginal Australian-owned digital technology company. The collaboration aims to enhance technological opportunities and foster greater inclusion of Indigenous communities within the tech industry. This strategic partnership represents an important step in bridging the technological gap in access, resources, and opportunities for First Nations leaders and organisations.

COMPANY NEWS: RICOH AUSTRALIA, a leading provider of smart workplace technology, today unveiled its inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) reinforcing the company’s ongoing commitment to sustainably and strategically take meaningful action to advance reconciliation.

Technology consultancy Thoughtworks has unveiled its First Nations Delivery Centre, a remote-first software consulting and development team comprising at least 50% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander technologists.

IT digital transformation solutions company UST Australia is working with people from Australia’s Indigenous communities in a program aimed at closing the gap of IT industry participation in the communities.

Two state-of-the-art commercial satellite ground stations have been built in Alice Springs with funds from Indigenous Business Australia, the first such facility on Aboriginal-owned land.

Microsoft and partner companies are working with the NSW Department of Education and the Aboriginal Education and Communities Directorate in a program aimed at safeguarding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and language, through Australia’s first augmented reality and digital skills initiative, The Njulgang Project.

The Australian arm of giant US telco, Verizon, has partnered with the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), using cloud technology as part of medical tests undertaken in the State to detect rheumatic heart disease in children.