{"id":294255,"date":"2021-09-01T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationaus.com\/?p=22063"},"modified":"2021-09-01T05:43:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T05:43:39","slug":"billion-dollar-boom-forecasted-for-govt-it-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/01\/billion-dollar-boom-forecasted-for-govt-it-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"Billion-dollar boom forecasted for govt IT spend"},"content":{"rendered":"
Australian governments are forecast<\/strong> to spend more than $6.4 billion dollars next year on IT services like consultants, managed services and cloud infrastructure, as part of a near double-digit rise in the growth of overall IT expenditure.<\/p>\n Advisory firm Gartner on Wednesday released its 2022 government IT spend forecast, predicting Commonwealth, state, territory, and local governments in Australia will spend $15.5 billion on IT in 2022, an 8.8 per cent or $1.2 billion leap on this year.<\/p>\n