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30% tax offset a game-changer for Australian industry: Ombudsman
The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Bruce Billson has welcomed the Australian Government’s $1.2 billion investment in the nation’s digital future, including the 30% tax offset for the video game industry.
Mr Billson says the investment will encourage greater digital adoption by small and family businesses, to ensure they are globally competitive.
“This significant investment will support small business growth and go some way to unlocking the commercial gains that can be made through digitisation,” Mr Billson says.
“Many small businesses have adopted better use of mobile and internet technologies as a result of the COVID crisis and these announced support measures will help that trend continue. Being digitally engaged has been very important for businesses, particularly in regional and rural areas, to continue delighting customers at a time of pandemic-related disruption
2021-05-06 07:06:21 GMT2021-05-06 15:06:21(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
CANBERRA, May 6 (Xinhua) Australia s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday announced a funding injection to transform the country into a leading digital economy by 2030.
Morrison outlined a 1.2 billion-Australian dollar (926.5 million U.S. dollars) plan to accelerate the uptake of digital technologies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Digital Economy Strategy includes 501.9 million Australian dollars (387.5 million U.S. dollars) to enhance the government s digital MyGov and My Health Record systems and more than 100 million Australian dollars (77.2 million U.S. dollars) in funding to improve workers digital skills.
A further 124 million Australian dollars (95.7 million U.S. dollars) will be spent improving Australia s artificial intelligence (AI) capability, with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) to establish and lead a national AI center.
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Executive Director, Tech4Dev, Diwura Oladepo, in this interview with Nosa Alekhuogie, speaks about the need to empower rural and underserved communities with basic digital skills. Excerpts:
Tech4Dev and Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), in the United Kingdom, signed an agreement to train people in Northern Nigeria on basic digital skills. What must have informed this initiative, and what does it seek to achieve?
In a time of social distancing and government-enforced lockdowns to curtail the spread of COVID-19, digital technology became the enabler of the continuation of work, education, and communication. But for millions of people who are unable to use technology, the offline world is economically and socially isolating. COVID-19 has further illuminated the ‘digital divide’, which is even more pronounced in Nigeria and worse off in poor rural clusters of Northern Nigeria. Therefore, it has become pertinent, especially on this path to the new normal, to focus
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February 5th 2021 at 09:00:00 GMT +0300
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UN Secretary-General Guterres has stated: The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst global crisis since the Second World War”. The year 2020 came with a pandemic and it was an extremely difficult and unusual year for everyone around the world. In 2020, people s way of life changed greatly, challenging economic development to an unprecedented extent. In 2020, traditional industries struggled, and new business models such as teleworking, online education, e-commerce, and telemedicine developed disruptively. In 2020, the fight against the pandemic and economic recovery was the top priorities of every country, and Kenya set an example for Africa in both the fight against the pandemic and economic recovery: Kenya was one of the first African countries to adopt and implement a string of rigorous policies, and one of the few countries to have positive economic growth in 2020