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Information and Communication Technologies (ITCs), according to the definition of the
OECD, include computer technology (hardware, services and software), telecommunications
(equipment and services) and electronics (components).
This sector plays a strategic role for at least two main reasons:
The first one highlights the direct contribution of ITCs to the growth of companies and
to job creation - often very skilled positions.
The second one emphasizes the importance of the effects caused by this technological
wave in the economic and social fabric. The diffusion of ITCs within companies, followed
by an effort of organisation and training made by the employees, results in producing a
significant impact on their productivity, thus improving their competitiveness. In addition,
there is no doubt that the private individual develops his behaviour at each stage of
appropriation and diffusion of these modern tools.
In French Polynesia, ITCs represent a sector with high potentialities. Its challenge is also
two-fold here: it consists in generating employment and wealth on the one hand, and
reaching the consumer in his new habits on the other hand.
The technical actions led by the Post and Telecommunications Office have revolutionised
the transport of information. Polynesia now features a technological range that goes
up to very high rate transmissions.
Moreover, 250 people with a baccalaureate diploma or higher degree have been trained
for 3 years (webmasters, cyber educators, euromasters). In July 2002, there were 285
companies working in the ITC sector and employing 838 people (Source: Institute of
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