Good news - please read INZ's update on the PM's views for our industry following her negative comments at the Knowledge Wave Conference. Kind regards Sue
-----Original Message----- From: Craig Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 05 March 2003 08:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Research Proposal The ICT Taskforce met with the PM last monday. The PM had a real concern as to the achievability of the target and the graduate supply constraint. The Taskforce took her through what underpins the rational of the target, firstly President Kennedy is not remembered as the man who said Americans would fly half way to the moon by the end of the decade, New Zealand currently has approximately half of the labour force engagement in ICT compared to the OECD average and approximately half of the productivity ( value added per emmployee) as the OECD. If NZ achieved OECD average it would exceed the target. Graduate (meaning people who have had ar least 3 years tertiary education so includes polytech 3 year courses)supply at curent levels of output are sufficient for the industry to get to 6%of gdp, productivity gains will be needed to get to 10%. The PM was very happy with this explanation and after a discussion about the need to upskill the knowledge our CEO entrepreneurs and what can be done in this space has swung right around to being a champion of the ICT industry reaching out for the target. We had our concerns about her knowledge wave commments but it appears its was based on poor briefing by various Government officials who did not bother to check out their views with the ICT Taskforce. Regards Craig --> via Canterbury Software email forum: Success through Connections Email your messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave or rejoin the list: http://canterburysoftware.org.nz/forum.htm
