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Australia’s NICTA partners with Indian technology giant Infosys
20 February 2013
Research organisation National ICT Australia (NICTA) and India-based technology services provider Infosys have agreed to collaborate on tough technology problems plaguing business.
They recently signed an agreement at NICTA’s annual Techfest at Parliament House, Canberra.
“Innovation across borders is essential to accelerate the pace of world prosperity,” said Infosys Chairman Emeritus NR Narayana Murthy, who has been a member of NICTA’s International Business Advisory Group since 2005.
“Having watched NICTA grow from start-up to one of the world’s leading research organisations, I expect this to be a formidable partnership,” he said.
The five-year program covers joint research, PhD student internship and professional exchange programs, as well as commercialising relevant intellectual property.
“This partnership is a great vote of confidence in NICTA’s research capabilities and ensures it will stay at the cutting edge of technology development in the years ahead,” Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy said.
“It also demonstrates Australia’s strength as a digital economy,” Senator Conroy said.
Early efforts will target problems related to cloud computing, including “platformisation” research to harvest software information from existing large code bases to speed the development of new systems, especially for cloud-based platforms.
NICTA was founded in 2002. With five research laboratories and more than 600 researchers and PhD students around the country, NICTA is Australia’s largest ICT research organisation. It is funded by the Australian Government’s Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council.
Infosys is a global technology services company that employs more than 155,000. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and has sales of more than US$7.45 billion.
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