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CSIRO hosts the Australian World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Office, developing common protocols promoting the evolution of the Web and ensuring its interoperability.

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    We seek paths to adoption for our research outcomes and opportunities to transfer our technology to Australian industry.

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    The ICT Centre is CSIRO's hub for innovative information and communication technologies. These technologies are applied to across the breadth of CSIRO’s engagement with industry and society.
  • CSIRO Group Executive Information Sciences and ICT Centre Director Dr Alex Zelinsky at the first Australia-China Information and Communication Technologies Summit.

    The first summit between Australia and China on the topic of future information and communication technologies (ICT) is underway in Shanghai.

  • A picture of The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr launching the Science and Industry Endowment Fund.

    An initial round of grants from the rejuvenated Science and Industry Endowment Fund will enhance Australia’s world-leading research capabilities in wireless technologies and help to address the nation’s need for more skilled scientists.

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    CSIRO is working on enabling technologies for future mobile and wireless communications networks and developing next generation imaging and sensing systems.

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    Science and technology for finding, integrating, managing and delivering services and information in a trusted and secure way.

 

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