Stories about: Australian Computer Society

The Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) annual survey of its members found that the salaries of ICT professionals steadily increased over the 12 months to May 2008, rising an average of 4.9% across industry sectors.

Being undervalued in the workplace is the biggest concern of Australian women in IT, according to the Australian Computer Society’s (ACS) Women Members Survey.

The National Innovation Review was released this week, attacking Howard governments of the past 12 years for stymieing innovation through reduced R&D and public education spending. The review itself took flak from the Australian Computer Society, frustrated at the lack of acknowledgement of ICT as a foundation for innovation in the recommendations.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) on Monday released a report indicating that ICT skills shortages will grow to 14,000 jobs by 2010, and will continue to reach 25,000 by 2020 unless government and industry heighten collaboration to ease the skills shortages.

The scholarship arm of the Australian Computer Society, the ACS Foundation, this morning announced that it had awarded more than 430 scholarships worth $4.4 million during financial year 2007 - its highest year since it began promoting private and public sponsorship of ICT scholarships, higher education and research projects in 2001.

Australian organisations, education institutions and businesses will host a smorgasboard of events across the nation as part of the first National ICT Careers Week, commencing next Monday, July 28.

The Australian Computer Society's Western Australian division is hosting a new way to secure graduate staff by putting third and fourth-year ICT students face to face with potential employers in an informal and engaging evening setting.

Not-for-profit IT competency and skills examination provider EXIN South Pacific (the Examination Institute for Information Science) has taken over from the Australian Computer Society as the exclusive national provider of the International Computer Driving Licence (ICDL).

As part of its submission to the [[xref:http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx|National Innovation Review]], the Australian Computer Society has called on the government to simplify what it sees as an overly complex set of application hoops that companies and organisation's must jump through in order to gain R&D tax offsets and grants. It has also asked the government to double the $1 million R&D tax offset threshold.

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has called on government to enforce rigid privacy laws on organisations which intercept employee e-mails.

Convincing young people that a career in ICT offers a global passport and the chance to make a difference in some of humankind's foremost dilemmas, such as climate change, are among the key themes of the inaugural National ICT Careers Week, slated for 28 July to 2 August 2008.