Digital Knowledge Exchange

Overview

The demand for digital skills in tech occupations has grown at least three times faster than other occupations on average, according to our Initial Workforce Plan.

The need to enhance digital capability extends beyond specialist roles, impacting the broader finance, technology, and business workforces.

State-based compacts and initiatives are essential to responding to the challenges of growing the digital workforce a national level. 

Sharing good practice, from trials of new initiatives and approaches across states and territories, can inform system-level changes or reform needed to ensure scale and sustainability at a national level.  

The project will establish a mechanism to share knowledge and lessons across the states and territories on the development and trial of digital skills initiatives to address the digital skills shortage.

The project will:

1.      Identify opportunities across current state and territory digital compacts to amplify good practice and support gaps. This information will be shared via a web page/portal to provide a national view.

2.     Support and trial prioritised initiatives across one or more states and territories.

3.     Report findings and scale.

Meet the Digital Knowledge Exchange (DKX) Governance Group 

Representatives from State and Territory Governments work together to oversee DKX initiatives, promote collaboration, and share digital knowledge and best practices across Australia. 

Chair - Sylvia Celima, Digital Knowledge Exchange Lead, FSO 

Western Australia

Angela Chen, Director, Policy Planning and Research, Department of Training and Workforce Development

Tracey Farrow, Chief Executive Officer, Financial, Administrative and Professional Services Training Council

Northern Territory

Donald Young, Senior Director, Digital Strategy and Advisory, Department of Corporate and Digital Development

Queensland

Filippa Ross, Manager, Industry Engagement, Department of Trade, Employment and Training

Rachel Emery, Industry Engagement Manager, Department of Trade, Employment and Training

Luisa Grant, Industry Skills Advisor to the Queensland Government, Australian Computer Society (ACS)

New South Wales

Jane Artup, Project Manager, NSW Digital Skills and Workforce Compact, NSW Department of Education

Elsa Young, Senior Project Officer, NSW Digital Skills and Workforce Compact, NSW Department of Education

Australian Capital Territory

Reeba Nasim, Research & Policy Analyst, Strategic Policy Team, Skills Canberra

Tasmania

Lynda McKay, Industry Partnerships Manager, Skills Tasmania, Department of State Growth

Victoria

Louise Pearce, Senior Skills Advisor, Victorian Skills Authority, Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions

Clare Verberne, Industry Engagement, Victorian Skills Authority, Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions

South Australia

Ruth Conry, Principal, Industry and Stakeholder Engagement Manager, SA Skills Commission

Michael Luchich, Chair, Finance, Tech & Business ISC, SA Skills Commission

View the Digital Knowledge Exchange Governance Group Terms of Reference