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.