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Earlier this month, IDG Communications, one of the world’s largest tech media companies, held the inaugural Channel Asia Innovation Awards 2019 last night. These awards highlight the best the channel in ASEAN has to offer across a leading and diverse line-up of partners, vendors, distributors and…

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The team at Cisco Australia and New Zealand are very passionate about helping the next generation in STEM, and see the value in sharing industry experience with those considering a future career in technology. Offering internships is part of this goal in support of Cisco’s AUSTEM 2020 goals, and to…

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With billions of devices connected to the Internet, and tens of billions more coming down the pike, the pressures on our infrastructure are heading for a peak and pushing the industry to solve for some fundamental growing pains. Numerous challenges have emerged as we’ve been operating in a landscape…

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Japan’s declining birthrate and aging population are structural problems that inhibit its economic growth. In order to address this issue, the Government of Japan is implementing various measures to realize a society in which all 100 million people are active. In particular, workstyle Innovation…

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日本の経済成長を抑制する構造的な問題である少子高齢化と人口減少。日本政府はこの問題に立ち向かおうと、一億総活躍社会の実現に向け、様々な施策を展開しています。中でも、最大のチャレンジと位置付けるのが働き方改革です。2019年4月には「働き方改革関連法案」の一部が施行され、大企業から中小企業まで、官民挙げて働き方改革への本格的な取り組みが始まっています。 少子高齢化に伴う生産年齢人口の減少や育児や介護との両立など、働き手のニーズの多様化に直面する中、投資やイノベーションによる生産性向上とともに、就業機会の拡大や意欲・能力を存分に発揮できる環境を作ることが重要な課題になっています。働き方改革は、残業時間の短縮や生産性の向上に目が向けられることが多いですが、今後は、ダイバーシティの推進と働きがいの向上に改革のテーマが移ろうとしています。…

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Cisco announces winner of $250,000 prize in the Australia & New Zealand Partner Innovation Challenge: Accelerating technology adoption through AI Adoption Assistant   Taleka in partnership with ecosystem partner Appspace, is announced as the winner of the Australia & New Zealand Partner…

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Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in the Asia Pacific region are expected to scale up on limited resources. Business leaders have to do much more with much less while responding as quickly as possible to market changes. While digital transformation helps SMBs stay competitive, the journey…

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Key Statistics: 84 per cent of organisations in Australia suffered a breach that cost them over $1 million, which is higher than any other country, in the APJC region and globally 69 per cent of Australian organisations reported receiving more than 100,000 alerts every single day, more than double…

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International Sign Language Day came by in my social media feed under the hashtag #IDSL2019 – in the form of a Scottish student who invented 100 new signs for scientific terms, to help make STEM jobs more accessible for the hearing impaired. It occurred to me how small actions and ideas can have great consequences…