Key Response Messages
17. The key response messages are:
- Recent policy changes and initiatives taken by government, both as a consequence of GIF and as a result of industry and regional development efforts, mean that issues raised by the taskforce in the six key areas are being addressed.
- Government is committed to supporting the growth of the ICT sector because of the economic benefits to the economy as a whole, and in particular wants to strengthen the partnership begun through the taskforce process. To this end, it is prepared to assist in building the leadership capability of the sector by funding an implementation body for four years, with the aim that the sector would contribute funding thereafter.
- Government endorses the focus of the taskforce on growing companies of scale with a global focus.
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