Digital Technology Snapshot

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The capacity of digital technologies to provide solutions to the unprecedented needs of broader industry are underpinning Western Australia's fiscal buoyancy in a challenging global economy. Read FutureNow's latest digital technology industry Snapshot

Training and Education

Western Australians have access to an excellent range of rigorous information communications technology training and education opportunities, including North Metropolitan TAFE’s renowned digital games and virtual technology offerings, and South Metropolitan TAFE’s industry-linked networking, programming and cybersecurity qualifications. A host of private providers offer a diverse range of short accredited and non-accredited courses, and Edith Cowan University is a lead partner of the national Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre.

Careers in Digital Technology

Click on the thumbnails below to read our industry profiles for digital and creative technologies, or spend some time with Western Australian tech superstar Mason Crawford.

Digital Technology

Are you a people person who loves sharing and communicating technical ideas with others, or are you more of a desk-based tech innovator who’s totally absorbed in your code? Explore a career in digital technology.​

Creative Technology

Can you bring together a unique mix of technical skill and creative flair to imagine and create characters and their worlds? Working with creative technologies could be your ideal world.

Mason Crawford

Perth-born vocational training graduate and software development rising star, Mason Crawford, has sky-rocketed since launching his career as a graduate. 

​ICT Information Communication Technologies Training Package

Training package qualifications are developed through a process of national consultation with industry. They are occupational skills standards against which training delivery and assessment of competency can take place. FutureNow works with our industry partners across Western Australia to provide current industry advice into the development of new Information Communications Technology training package products.

• Access the current ICT Information Communications Technology Training package.
• Subscribe to FutureNow’s newsletter for updates on current industry consultations for Training Package development.

Explore the Year 9 Career Taster Portal for experiences in digital technologies

Apprenticeships and Traineeships

​Apprenticeships and traineeships provide a way to combine training with a job, enabling the student to work towards a nationally recognised qualification whilst earning a wage. The full suite of Information Communications Technology qualifications may be completed as a traineeship. 

Access the current list of traineeships and apprenticeships available in Western Australia.

VET for Secondary Students

FutureNow works with industry to provide current advice on the suitability of vocational Information Communications Technology qualifications for delivery to secondary students. This advice is collated and updated annually into the VET Qualifications Register for Secondary Students by the Department of Training and Workforce Development. 

Access the current VET Qualifications Register for Secondary Students.