[LINK] 2002 Report on ICT Trade Released

[Tom Worthington]

The ACS released its 2002 Report on ICT Trade at 1pm. This says Australia 
has a large ICT deficit and someone should do something about it. Summary: 
<http://www.acs.org.au/ICT_Trade_Update_2002.PDF>.

 From the ABC News 
<http://abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-29nov2002-50.htm>:

>Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:17 AEDT
>
>IT trade deficit unmanageable, says expert The association representing 
>information technology professionals in Australia says the industry's 
>trade deficit is becoming unmanageable.
>
>The Australian Computer Society says the trade deficit for IT products and 
>services was almost $14.5 billion last financial year and will grow to 
>$27.2 billion by the end of the decade.
>
>The society's immediate past president, John Ridge, says the cost is not 
>sustainable.
>
>"We don't need to sustain or incur that amount of costs because we're more 
>than capable of producing our own IT goods and services, to not only 
>replace some of the imported products but also result in an export 
>industry which would have a doubly beneficial effect," he said.

ps: My modest proposal to reduce the trade deficit is to sell the US Army 
containerised super computers and GrangeNet derived video systems for their 
Incat ships: <http://www.tomw.net.au/2002/tsv1x/>.  ;-)



Tom Worthington FACS tom.worthington@tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
Director, Tomw Communications Pty Ltd ABN: 17 088 714 309
http://www.tomw.net.au PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617
Visiting Fellow, Computer Science, Australian National University
Publications Director, Australian Computer Society