Microsoft makes innovation payments to the ACT

Microsoft Australia has made payments totaling $784,222.58 to the Australian Capital Territory in support of ICT innovation. The payments to InTACT ($667,373.42) and ACTEW/AGL ($116,849.16) were processed earlier this month.

The payments constitute the residual funds accumulated through Microsoft’s Service Provision Fund (SPF) established with InTACT as part of Microsoft’s former Enterprise Agreement with the ACT Government.

The SPF was established in 2003 for the purpose of supporting projects that would stimulate productivity and ICT innovation in the ACT. Microsoft has made similar arrangements available in respect of Government enterprise agreements in Australia over the past decade.

Residual funds from Microsoft’s Federal SPF were used to support the Federal Government’s Web 2.0 Taskforce in 2009.

Microsoft has contributed to ICT innovation in the ACT, through InTACT, for many years and will continue to look for and support initiatives that aim to improve worker productivity, customer service delivery and ICT innovation across the public sector in the Australian Capital Territory.