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Western Australian schools are now able to apply for grants for the McGowan government’s $44.6 million Schools Clean Energy Technology package.

Western Australia’s homegrown spacecraft, Binar-1, has made first contact with ground control at Curtin University, after it was launched into low orbit from the International Space Station two weeks ago.

The Australian Information Industry Association AIIA) says Western Australia has the capacity to move up the rankings in the country’s digital inclusion index and move ahead of third placed NSW in the next 12 months.

MGM Wireless, the maker of the Spacetalk all in one children’s smartphone, watch and GPS device, has been awarded a majorcontract by the Western Australia Department of Education to supply MGM Student Absence Notification Messaging Software and Services to all WA Government schools.

Cloud analytics company Teradata has appointed Keith Budge to the newly created role of APJ executive vice president.

National IT recruitment firm Finite has succeeded in consolidating and growing its business in Western Australia despite tougher economic conditions over the past 18 months.

The WA Dept of Fisheries has shamelessly copied a real-time shark sighting app from iKoast, spending $370,000 dollars to duplicate an app that a local WA startup had fruitlessly tried partnering on Government with.

Resolve has been appointed to the Western Australian (WA) Government's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Common Use Agreement (CUA) 14008. The CUA 14008 is an agreement for all WA public authorities purchasing ICT services, and allows government buyers to procure services from suitably qualified and experienced consulting organisations.

The WA Government has called for tenders for the provision of mobile voice and broadband data services in presently underserved areas of the state.