ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT QUARTERLY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS
WINNER
CITY OF ADELAIDE
City of Adelaide and TPG Telecom Partnership
Ten Gigabit Adelaide is a revolutionary high-speed,
high-performance fibre optic data network that is
being rolled out to commercial buildings across the
City of Adelaide. The network will enable
businesses and organisations to share and receive
high volumes of data at phenomenal 10Gbps data
speeds.
The City of Adelaide has partnered with TPG
Telecom as the ‘Official Network Provider’ to
implement the first and most visible element of Ten
Gigabit Adelaide: the delivery and installation of
a fibre optic network across the City of Adelaide,
10Gbps data transfer capability and a range of high-
performance services for the business community.
The transformational network will unleash a
wide range of new possibilities for businesses
and organisations, without being inhibited by the
restrictions and congestion often experienced with
traditional internet services. Each service in the Ten
Gigabit Adelaide suite has its own, dedicated and
uncontested connection, meaning businesses can
access the same upload and download speeds via
a clean, super-fast, low-latency connection.
The response from businesses and building owners
has been extraordinary.
FINALIST
WOLLONGONG CITY COUNCIL
“Advantage Wollongong”
Advantage Wollongong is a partnership between
Wollongong City Council, the University of
Wollongong and the NSW Department of Premier
and Cabinet. The focus is on attracting new
businesses, investment and jobs by promoting
Wollongong as a superior business location in key
growth sectors. Advantage Wollongong represents
a long term, strategic approach and has developed
a range of promotional resources and activities,
aligned to key target sectors.
Advantage Wollongong has been promoting
Wollongong as a superior business location since
2008. It is recognised as a best practice approach
to business and investment attraction and has
generated significant momentum over the past
decade. This long term, strategic approach has
allowed the three partner organisations to pool
resources, avoid costly duplication of effort and
mostly importantly, ensure a co-ordinated and
consistent approach. Advantage Wollongong
has been leading the City’s efforts to diversify the
economic base of the region away from its traditional
industries of steel making and coal mining.
Over the last decade, Advantage Wollongong has
facilitated over 100 projects, and created just over
3,000 jobs for the region. A major recent win was
the attraction of global IT solutions and services
giant, NEC to Wollongong to established its new
corporate office, growing to 180 staff in the past 2.5
years. The new corporate office is the centrepiece
of a $40M investment by NEC in the region and
supports major customers across Australia.
REMPLAN modelling quantifies NEC’s ongoing
contribution at $59M annually to the local economy.
FINALIST
GOLD COAST HEALTH & KNOWLEDGE
PRECINCT PROJECT OFFICE
Gold Coast Health & Knowledge Precinct
Partnership
The Gold Coast Health and Knowledge Precinct
(GCHKP) is Asia-Pacific’s emerging health and
innovation hub – a unique global business location
for high tech industry, research collaboration and
jobs of the future, and a transformative initiative for
the Gold Coast and region’s economy.
The GCHKP is being developed through a
collaborative funding partnership between City
of Gold Coast, Griffith University and Gold Coast
Health, with the support of the Queensland
Government.
The 200-hectare precinct includes an urban renewal
of the former Parklands Precinct adjacent to Griffith
University, leveraging the co-location of the Gold
Coast University and Private Hospitals and the
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