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1 Introduction
The Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts commissioned Howard Partners to explore the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) by what have been referred to as non-ICT manufacturing businesses.
OECD publications and reports identify the ICT manufacturing sector as covering ‘production intended to fulfil the function of information processing and communication, including transmission and display, using electronic processing to detect, measure and/or record physical phenomena or to control a physical process’ (OECD 2004)
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