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NBN Co to help businesses find the right broadband plan

NBN Co has announced the launch of wholesale discount bundles over the fixed line nbn™ broadband access network, as well as the business nbn™ solution finder, a new online tool designed to help businesses understand the type of solution they should discuss with their retail service provider. The wholesale discount bundles offer service providers a…


Tasmanian Information Technology Sector rewards Sustainability

  Tasmania’s Peak Industry Body for the Information, Communication & Technology Sector (TasICT), has announced a new category for its annual Awards Night.   The TasICT Awards being held on June 28th will feature a new prize acknowledging a business or technology which contributes to sustainability or the protection of the environment. TasICT Chief Executive…


Experienced Web Developer (Full-Time) Futago

Join one of Tasmania’s best design studios and help lead our team of developers delivering sites for a range of boutique clients as well as large sites for government and not-for-profit organisations. Our new architecturally designed studio has frontage to Hobart’s waterfront at Salamanca. You’ll be working alongside a team of talented designers, our Web…


ICT Industry Forums – Developing the Future

Are you interested in the future workforce development of the State’s ICT sector? Do you have a view on future skills and training? If so TasICT needs your input into the joint industry workforce development plan. TasICT and the Australian Computer Society, in conjunction with the Department of State Growth, are developing an ICT industry…


Rural and Regional Enterprise Scholarships Program (STEM)

The Rural and Regional Enterprise Scholarships Program (RRESP) has been introduced to improve access to and completion of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) tertiary education courses for students from regional and remote areas in Australia. Benefits The Scholarship payments will assist the Recipient with the financial costs of attending their institution and undertaking their…


Smart farms – easier, cheaper, faster

Thousands of data sensors are giving Tasmania’s research and teaching farms an agritech facelift. The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) and Sense-T have installed a Long Range (LoRa) data communication gateway on the University of Tasmania’s research farm at Cambridge. The resulting network, called LoRaWAN, can include up to 1000 sensors and is being used…