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GUEST OPINION:  Items people mistakenly believe can be recycled, rotten and otherwise wasted food that emits greenhouse gases, and abandoned TVs and computers with toxic substances. It's the stuff that Victoria's mountains of landfill are made of. The amount of waste Victorians generate is expected to grow, harming human health, the environment, and the climate, to say nothing of economic growth.

The ever-growing “anywhere economy” highlights the opportunities for Australian businesses for productivity and economic growth according to new research.

I regularly find that a clear understanding of purpose provides a great anchor for decision making.

More greenhouse gases were produced in 2018 than any previous year, despite more than 20 countries reducing their carbon emissions since 2000, research from UNSW Sydney and their collaborators has shown.

Data centre networks provider Leading Edge Data Centres has begun work on a $19.6 million project to upgrade digital infrastructure in the Newcastle and Hunter regions of New South Wales as part of a wider roll-out of its tier-3 edge data centre network across the State.

Tasmanian communications provider TasmaNet CEO Elizabeth Aris says Australia’s $51 billion investment in the National Broadband Network has never looked so good, but suggests that as the National Cabinet “plots the nation’s return to economic growth”, a wholehearted cross-sector embrace of the NBN’s full potential is essential.

Queensland is set to strengthen its position in the cyber security sector, with three new Cyber Security Innovation Nodes to be established across the state.

By Guy Danskine, Managing Director, Equinix Australia

Melbourne is ranked as Australia’s most advanced smart city and one of the world’s top ten most connected smart cities, according to a recent report by Oracle and ESI ThoughtLab. 1 It’s exceptional not just because it uses data or technology, as most cities do, but because it extracts value from data in ways that enhance livability, experience, sustainability and economic growth.

GUEST OPINION: Melbourne is ranked as Australia’s most advanced smart city and one of the world’s top ten most connected smart cities, according to a recent report by Oracle and ESI ThoughtLab. 1 It’s exceptional not just because it uses data or technology, as most cities do, but because it extracts value from data in ways that enhance livability, experience, sustainability and economic growth.

Australian executive employment has had its equal biggest fall in 12 months as banks continue to block business lending and economic growth sputters - but despite the plunge across other sectors, the IT sector was a “standout winner” for the month, following on from two months of sizeable falls, according to a new employment report.

Australia’s National Centre for Asia Capability, Asialink Business, has partnered with the Australian Government to launch a new initiative to foster women in innovation and STEM leadership and strengthen regional cooperation.

Technology spending in Australia is forecast to grow 2.3% to reach A$84.5 billion in 2018, as the latest forecasts for global technology spending have been revised upwards by 1.8% to 6.2% – or US$3.7 trillion for 2018.

Australia’s top business and industry executives are more upbeat about the prospects for future global economic growth than their global counterparts, despite experiencing flat or negative growth over the past three years, according to new research from professional services firm KPMG.

Intel Australia has congratulated the Australian government for putting innovation, science and tech at the heart of economic growth, repositioning ‘Australia for success as a robust knowledge-innovation economy.’

Just two weeks out from the Victorian election, the Australian Computer Society has called on the major political parties to give greater recognition and support for the state’s digital economy as a driver of economic growth.

Widespread use of mobile telephones can add substantially to a developing country’s economic growth, a new report shows.

New network is designed to stimulate innovation in the Information and Communications Technology sector and will publish a report on the Future of the Internet