Australia sluggish to embrace tech futures as cyberspace bites back – so what next?
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- 22 Mar 2023
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Promising developments emerge, but room for improvement remains
Code-storage and management service GitHub has brought its annual GitHub Universe event in San Francisco to a close, having spent November 9-10 celebrating global developers and the past, present and future of all things software. With sessions, workshops and discussions both virtually and on-site, GitHub Universe sought to bring together some of the internet’s brightest minds – and in the process shed some unique light on the current state of software development.
For the 10th year, GitHub has also launched its latest State of the Octoverse(opens in new tab) to coincide with its Universe event, offering a glimpse at the trends and behaviors of the platform’s more than 90 million users. Among the report’s most enlightening findings is a reported 20.5 million new developers who have joined GitHub in 2022, a total growth of 27% YoY. That’s led to more than 3.5 billion total contributions to projects on GitHub across the year so far.
India saw the greatest contribution to the number of new developers to the platform compared to all nations, responsible for 32.4% of all new GitHub developers. It was followed closely by China and Brazil at 15% and 11% respectively.
Meanwhile, the number of new developers coming to GitHub from Australia also grew at a somewhat surprising pace in 2022, increasing by 23% across the year. That detail particularly stands out because it exists against a backdrop of an acknowledged tech skills shortage(opens in new tab) in the country. Alongside it, a recent flurry of high-profile cybersecurity breaches have been suffered by Australian businesses, with private health insurance provider Medibank the latest to fall victim. Read More…
