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Major Ongoing ICT Research Project Announced
Major Ongoing ICT Research Project Announced
JOINT PRESS
RELEASE
Institute of IT Professionals New
Zealand Inc (IITP)
AUT University’s Centre for Research
on Information Systems Management (CRISM)
25 October 2012, For Immediate Release
The Institute of
IT Professionals New Zealand (IITP) and AUT University’s
Centre for Research on Information Systems Management
(CRISM) today announced a major research project exploring
the key factors that drive IT
Professionals.
The joint
initiative, intended to be the largest research project ever
into New Zealand’s growing Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) profession, will look into the critical
factors that drive IT professionals today and led them to
take up a career in the field.
IITP chief executive Paul Matthews said today “This project will provide meaningful ongoing relevant data that will help inform Government policy, ensure the Institute can represent our profession effectively and steer future initiatives aimed at dealing with the ICT skills shortage and other issues faced by our industry.”
The project is designed to sit alongside and tie together other research conducted by Government, Academia and industry and provide an ongoing source of meaningful data on the profession, to be released academically and in an annual ICT Stats Compendium.
AUT’s Professor Felix Tan said “The ongoing nature of this research will mean this won’t just be a snap-shot of the industry now. We’ll be able to track trends over the longer-term and gauge whether various initiatives and projects aimed at attracting smart people into ICT are working”.
“The project will also track key demographics such as gender, cultural and age diversity over the longer term and inform whether initiatives designed to address these gaps and perceived or actual barriers are working,” Tan said. “The project will also allow direct comparison with similar research in other countries such as Australia and Singapore”.
“This research will help
answer a lot of questions about our industry in a meaningful
and complete way,” Matthews said. “Following academic
publication and the release of a ICT Stats Compendium, the
results will be released to others to aid further analysis
and research”.
“We strongly
encourage all software and IT Professionals to visit www.iitp.org.nz/research for more
information and to take part in the initial survey,”
Matthews said.
About the Institute of IT
Professionals NZ
IITP is the professional body
of IT Professionals, and as a non-profit incorporated
society works with industry, academia, Government and the
wider community to achieve its mission of increasing the
education, standards, professionalism and innovation of the
ICT profession.
About AUT
CRISM
The Centre for Research on Information
Systems Management (CRISM) is located in the Faculty of
Business and Law at AUT University. It aims to foster
research and educational initiatives in the broad area of
information systems
management.
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