Delivering Outcomes

DIF builds awareness of the opportunities of the digital economy so that the benefits may spread across the state: • Supports development of advanced technology • Stimulates the pipeline of STEM skills and capability opportunities for digital jobs • Supports development of broad digital and data • Promotes Victorian digital capabilities to a national literacy and global audience • Fosters grass roots involvement of all sectors of the • Increases adoption of emerging technology in economy and community priority industries

As part of DIF2016 founder of US based, Girls in Tech, Adriana Gascoigne, launched Girls in Tech (GIT) Australia in Melbourne [Pic R]. Since then GiT has engaged over 50,000 women across the country. In 2019 at the DIF Hub Future of Work Day, Alex Post shared her story of how GiT supported her career transition from the US to Melbourne. Posting on LinkedIn she had met a personal goal speaking at DIF which dozens of colleagues recognized. At a DIF briefing in Warragul in 2017 a handful of regional entrepreneurs decided to work together to host Gippsland’s first ever tech conference. third year has become a leading regional entrepreneur conference. Since then GippsTech, has registered as a social enterprise and successfully received both state and national grants to run the Startup Gippsland program for 46 businesses and the Work My Own Way for SMEs until 2022

As part of DIF2018, the Colac Chamber of

Commerce held a workshop aimed at using technology to win the Chinese tourism dollar. Chinese New Year 2019 saw Colac introduce regional Victoria’s first-ever QR codes at 22 of its tourism businesses, with stickers advertising goods and services in Mandarin Chinese. Storefronts participating reported up to a 15 per cent increase in the number of Chinese customers visiting their businesses on the way to The result was Binary Shift [Pic L] which in its

and from the Great Ocean Road.