New South Wales has the ICT infrastructure to support cutting-edge technology, including nine international fibre-optic cable networks that link Australia to the US, Europe and Asia. We deliver a world-class environment for data centres, data storage and managed services hosting.
We are a regional leader in ICT research and commercialisation, with several national centres of excellence in ICT-related research fields, as well as two Cooperative Research Centres and four National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy research and development facilities.
The world-class Hunter Medical Research Institute is Australia’s only regionally based medical research institute, while Bathurst is home to the NSW Government’s Cyber Security Vulnerability Centre, delivering vital, sector-wide risk management capabilities.
Centres for Innovation in Regional Health provide research-based health care in regional NSW, including clinical trials, while NSW Regional Health Partners is accelerating the translation of evidence into practice.
Technologies from leading Australian online distance education providers are increasingly being leveraged to provide education services to a global audience, in partnership with Australian expertise.
Continued public and private investment in improved digital connectivity, such as mobile networks, regional data centres and fibre networks across NSW, present exciting new opportunities for investors.
At a glance
$240 million
NSW Government investment in cyber security
2,000
start-ups located in NSW
314,000
technology workers based in NSW
5
universities with specialisations in cyber, cryptology, artificial intelligence, health informatics, software engineering, IoT, cloud services and large-scale data systems
40%
of Australia’s ICT businesses are in NSW
#1
NSW has Australia’s largest ICT sector
66%
of Australia’s total ICT services exports are from NSW
$400 million
investment in the Regional Digital Connectivity program