Technology Update

Elodie Journet, Australian Trade Commissioner – Asean ICT at the Australian Mobile Content and Solution Showcase held at Shangri-La Hotel, Jakarta said that the Asia’s digital content market ranks first in the world. This fact is pushed the Australian to approach the market in this region by introducing a number of application developers and content residing in his country.

Patrick Kearins, Indonesia Trade Commisioner, Australian Trade Commission told that Through the exhibition organized by the Australian embassy, the Australian trade commission hopes to raise public awareness about the Australian content industry.

Currently, the digital content industry in Australia said rapidly growing revenues with a value of about $ 25 billion. This figure represents all existing types of digital content. The additional content for mobile devices, the value is still around $ 180 million. It also mentioned that Australia has become the exporter for digital content and digital services, especially for mobile content and e-learning products.

For Indonesia own market, content industry is still not too good. From the source that can be trusted, it is mentioned that the content market in Indonesia is still less than other services. And this would be a challenge for local players indeed.