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ICT in Auckland
ICT is a key sector in the Auckland economy with over 2,500 businesses and over
18,000 employees.
The city accounts for over
80 per cent of regional ICT employment and over 40 per cent of national ICT employment.
Auckland has IT service,
support and software development strengths that cover sub sectors such as
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Electronic payments
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Health IT
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Wireless technologies
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Transport and logistics.
Successful export companies
such as Orion Health, Simpl, and Rakon are based in Auckland.
Multinationals like HP, SAP, IBM and Microsoft have offices here.
Auckland's tertiary
institutions offer degrees in ICT combined with Science, Engineering or
Business fields:
Some of
the venture capital companies based in Auckland investing in ICT start up
companies are ICE ANGELS and Sparkbox Investment Ltd.
Updated October 2008
