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Victoria's ICT industry


Victoria's Technology Plan for the Future - Information and Communication Technology
November 2011



Victoria’s Technology Plan for the Future – ICT is an $85 million plan to support continuing growth, development and global competitiveness in Victoria’s ICT sector and promote ICT-enabled innovation across the economy.

Victoria’s Technology Plan for the Future – ICT will support the ICT sector in overcoming current and future challenges while ensuring ICT continues to play a key role in contributing to a competitive, productive and growing Victorian economy.

The plan covers two key action areas:

Capability development – working closely with the ICT sector to ensure that the right conditions exist in Victoria to support the growth of internationally competitive and recognised ICT businesses.

Initiatives in this action area focus on:

  • Growing Victorian ICT – facilitating investment; supporting ICT companies to pursue trade opportunities and opportunities from the National Broadband Network; partnering with ICT networks and associations; and facilitating access to government contracts.
  • Developing emerging ICT capabilities - supporting collaborative projects in the ICT sector and with other partners to develop emerging ICT capabilities in Victoria.

ICT enabled-innovation – working with industry and the education and research sectors to ensure high level ICT capabilities are in place to support innovation across the economy, including R&D infrastructure and expertise, skilled and innovative people and high-capacity broadband infrastructure.

Initiatives in this action area focus on:

  • Skilled and innovative people - implementing a suite of ICT skills initiatives in partnership with industry and the education sector to support the development of a highly skilled and innovative ICT workforce in Victoria.
  • Broadband infrastructure – ensuring broadband infrastructure supports business innovation and productivity, as well as generating economic and social benefits across the State.
  • World-class R&D capabilities – supporting Victoria’s ICT R&D and eResearch capabilities.
  • Applying ICT – supporting the early adoption of ICT across the economy and implementing innovative applications of ICT to deliver government services.

Victoria's Technology Plan for the Future – ICT is the third of a suite of technology statements to support Victorian technology industries and technology-enabled innovation, with other plans focussed on Biotechnology and Small Technologies.

Victoria's Technology Plan for the Future – ICT (PDF, 862KB, 28 pages)

Media Release: Victorian Government unveils $85 million ICT Plan


Victorian ICT Industry Survey Fact Sheet
June 2011



Multimedia Victoria conducts annual surveys of the Victorian ICT industry to ensure the Government’s programs and projects continue to meet the current and future needs of the ICT industry.

The 2011 Victorian ICT industry survey was held in March 2011. The key findings from the 2011 survey are:

  • The Victorian ICT industry employs around 87,400 people
  • ICT companies operating in Victoria generate gross annual revenues of $29 billion
  • Victorian-headquartered ICT companies have annual revenues of $2.45 billion from overseas operations and exports of ICT equipment and services.

ICT Industry Survey Fact Sheet, June 2011 (PDF, 224KB, 2 pages)

Victoria's Clusters of Excellence



Victoria's ICT industry is defined by clusters. A cluster is a concentration of companies in a particular industry who share a common market and support base. Multimedia Victoria currently supports these clusters.

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Related Information

Think Melbourne for ICT Fact Sheet (PDF, 609KB, 2 pages) published in March 2012, the fact sheet provides an overview of Melbourne as an ICT hub, Victoria's ICT industry and capabilities as well as our ICT clusters of excellence.