The Gold Coast IT Forum is a network of people and organisations who are involved in, use or service the IT & Communications industry on the GC.

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Gold Coast ICT Capability Study 2011

With the financial support of our major sponsor for this project, BusinessGC, the IT Forum is to undertake the most significant study of this most important industry since 2007. The ICT Industry is a significant driver of Gold Coast City's growing economy with a wide range of small to medium enterprises, and a number of large national and multi-national companies.

The Forum has set out to gain a more current profile of the industry and sees this study as a critical element of further developing the industry not only on a local but the international market. Gold Coast City has many strategic advantages for Information and Communication Technology firms, including lower industrial and leasing costs, lower labour costs. sophisticated infrastructure and dedicated learning institutions.Gold Coast City has a growing knowledge base strengthened by the presence of four universities, several research centres and a number of internationally recognised training institutions.

The objectives for the 2011 ICT Capability Study are to deliver the following:

  • To create an extensive database of ICT businesses on the Gold Coast which will identify contact details, skill levels of existing staff, business capabilities and their specific industry sector (for example Cloud computing, software development, programmer etc)
  • To create an on-line business directory of the Gold Coast ICT industry showcasing their capabilities
  • To survey the businesses assessing their capacity to provide on a range of services, the nature of the business and its market, short and long term focus areas of the businesses as well as other information that would otherwise assist in measuring the overall capability of the ICT Industry in the region.
To find out more of what the project is setting out to achieve and how it is going about that you can download the original project brief that was put out to companies inviting them to put forward proposal to conduct this project on behalf of the Forum  or you can read our Project Updates where you will find details of progress on the project.

The Project is being managed by Greg Tomkins with the information gathering being primarily  undertaken by MAAT Solutions Pty Ltd.

Gold Coast ICT Industry Capability Study 2011 Project Brief Gold Coast ICT Industry Capability Study 2011 Project Brief (319 KB)

Latest Project Developments

  1. Further Telemarketing Underway Greg Tomkins 09-Oct-2011
  2. email campaign commenced Greg Tomkins 31-Jul-2011
  3. Just how we will be collecting data for the survey and what we will be doing with it Greg Tomkins 10-Jun-2011
  4. IT FORUM GOLD COAST COMMENCES ICT INDUSTRY CAPABILITY STUDY Greg Tomkins 27-May-2011

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