Investing in Tasmania. All you need to know.

Tasmania is about to become one of the most connected places on the planet

As the lead jurisdiction in Australia for the roll-out of a National Broadband Network (NBN), Tasmania is attracting significant attention for its direct fibre-to-the-premises connection that will soon be available to over 90 per cent of homes, businesses, schools and hospitals.

The Tasmanian Government is focused on leveraging this opportunity to create an innovative, sustainable and vibrant digital industry by:

• supporting businesses to engage with the digital economy
• assisting the Information Communications Techonology (ICT) industry to exploit development opportunities from NBN-capable applications, technologies and services
• providing greater community access to a range of new services that take advantage of the capabilities of the NBN, with a particular focus on government and community services in areas such as health, education, smart energy management and government online services
• delivering online services to the community and businesses which fully exploit the NBN’s capacity and functionality to become both interactive and collaborative.

Tasmania’s geographic, demographic and economic diversity along with its size means that it provides a robust, representative and easily accessible sample population for digital companies and research organisations wanting to test and adapt their products for a western market.

Currently the Tasmanian ICT and digital industries sector generates annual revenue over $1.4 billion, spends over $9.5 billion on research and development, and employs around 2 700 people.

Opportunities exist for investment in:

• home or office networking
• cloud computing
• content creation and development including social networking, gaming, entertainment, cloud-based data services, mobility and telepresence applications
• creating business in the digital economy
• smart research.

Through improved access to super-fast broadband, Tasmania is expected to become a hub for digital content developers, digital technology innovators and digital economy entrepreneurs.

Tasmania offers

A significant track record in key digital sectors including:

• eLearning
  Major contracts have been secured throughout Australia and internationally, with companies like The Learning Edge International and Getbusi
  
• eHealth
  Our small size provides a contained and representative population for field testing but we have also developed many innovative health applications. See Healthcare Software, Verdant Health and icare solutions
  
• eGovernment
  Tasmania is focused on innovative government processes, improved services and transparent access to information as developed by Logica, Prologic and Insight4
  
• Digital media
  Backed by Screen Tasmania, we offer an emerging digital media production sector. See Blue Rocket Productions, Roar Films, Secret Lab and Joffre Street Productions
  
• Research and development
  We have ready access to applied research in the areas of sensor networks and data management through the Tasmanian ICT Centre. We also have access to human computer interaction, interaction design, ubiquitous computing and e-Health through the University of Tasmania and to virtual reality, augmented reality, 3-D interaction and ubiquitous computing through the HITLab AU.

For more information visit:

TasICT the Tasmanian ICT industry body
Tasmanian Electronic Commerce Centre (TECC)
National Broadband Network (NBN)
NBN Co