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IT Demand Tightens as Sector Shrinks

Posted by Sarah Mitchell on 20 January 2011 | 0 comments

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Two articles came across WITWA desks in the past week to support the need for our techtrails program. We’ve heard a lot of lamenting about the shrinking technology industry. We also know young people no longer find IT careers attractive. (More about that in a later post.)

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techtrails: Ticking all the Beazley boxes

Posted by Sarah Mitchell on 6 January 2011 | 0 comments

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It’s no small feat developing a program to encourage youth into the technology sector. What we’ve found just as challenging is getting support from industry and government to fund the event. When Professor Lyn Beazley, Chief Scientist of WA, agreed to become the patron for the techtrails program, we were thrilled. Professor Beazley shared her larger vision for the technology sector in Western Australia and why she thinks techtrails is important to our state.