1. What is the ICT sector?
2. How is the ICT sector important to Canada?
3. What is a sector council?
4. Who do you represent?
5. What is ICTC’s relationship with industry?
6. What is ICTC’s relationship with government?
7. What is ICTC’s relationship with the Canadian educational system?
8. Where can I find out more about ICTC?
What is the ICT sector?
The Information and Communications Technology sector encompasses all companies that develop goods or services that process, transmit or receive information.
How is the ICT sector important to Canada?
According to Industry Canada:
(http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/epic/internet/inict-tic.nsf/en/h_it07229e.html)
The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector contributed $60.6 billion to Canadian GDP ($1997) in 2005 - accounting for 5.6% of Canadian output, up from 4.0% in 1997.
Economic activity has picked up in the ICT sector in 2005 as GDP grew by a significant 5.6% compared to 3.9% in 2004. Average annual growth in this sector has been 8.0% since 1997, more than twice as fast as the overall economy (+3.5%). This faster growth also means that ICT industries have accounted for 10.6% of the Canadian GDP growth since 1997.
What is a sector council?
The Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program (SCP) works to enable partnerships that address skills and human resource issues by establishing, developing and supporting national partnerships and the capacity of partners to address both pressing and emerging skills and human resource issues. By bringing together corporate executives, owner-operators of smaller firms, employees, educators and interested government representatives, Sector Councils provide a practical perspective on change. The sector council approach can also improve international competitiveness for all, sector by sector.
Who do you represent?
ICTC’s efforts are targeting all stakeholders in the ICT sector-industry, educators, government and workers. Each of our stakeholders will find unique value in our research, reports and initiatives.
What is ICTC’s relationship with industry?
ICTC involves industry expertise and perspective in everything we do. The Council utilizes industry’s knowledge in developing, implementing and analyzing our strategies and initiatives. We invest in industry by including them on our board of directors, expert panel, steering committees and in all of our research.
What is ICTC’s relationship with government?
ICTC is funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Sector Council Program. As such we share research, best-practices and strategies for the betterment of the ICT industry as a whole.
What is ICTC’s relationship with the Canadian educational system?
ICTC works with the Canadian educational system to ensure the knowledge, skills and abilities required by industry are provided throughout the educational system.
Where can I find out more about ICTC?
All of our initiatives are explained on our web site at www.ictc-ctic.ca. ICTC is constantly seeking opportunities to develop partnerships that will help like-minded organizations achieve our goals together. If your organization could benefit from a partnership with ICTC please contact info@ictc-ctic.ca or call 613-237-8551.
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