Migrating to a New Future
The development of a strategy for the future addresses the key goals of the City embedded in the City of Ballarat's Strategic Plan, Blueprint Ballarat. Blueprint Ballarat shares its vision for Ballarat towards the year 2030, and establishes 'what we want for Ballarat' in the following areas:
- People
- Services and infrastructure
- Jobs and investment
- Health and resilience
- Learning and knowledge
- Environment and heritage, and
- Connections
Blueprint Ballarat sets out the issues, required priorities, strategies, and early projects. Within each theme there is a section titled 'Where we will be in 2030', which outlines what Ballarat will have achieved. The linkages between the visions for each area and the way 'embedded' technology will assist with the realisation of these visions, provides an excellent opportunity to link the ICT 2030 to the overarching Blueprint Ballarat Strategy.
The ICT 2030 strategy is based on emerging trends and opportunities and the developing resources and competencies of the Ballarat ICT Cluster. It would be wrong to expect an assessment of these strengths and weaknesses to limit the strategy for the future. Ballarat needs to migrate to a more competitive, innovative and sustainable future. Resources are constraints but in this area, the most important resources are the knowledge assets that are themselves generated from the activity of a growing cluster and the foresighted support of the community, government, institutions and businesses.
The key to this strategy is to consistently set stretch targets for achievement within the context of an aspirational strategy, and to mobilise effort around this.
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