In the budget, as the minister mentioned earlier, the agency was renewed for $920 million over the next five years. Over the course of the next months, we're going to conduct a number of round tables across southern Ontario and talk about areas of programming that we may want to design as we go forward for the next five years. Certainly the area of information communication technology is one that is going to be of great interest.
Also in our funding there was an allocation designated for the advanced manufacturing fund of $200 million over the course of those five years. Clearly one of the sectors that we're very interested in from a manufacturing point of view is the whole ICT space. We will also be consulting on the design and delivery of that program. Those are areas that we're going to look at.
In the past though, we did some investments in the area of ICT. We made a number of investments through our prosperity initiative to look at high performance cloud computing; we've made an investment of about $20 million to date. We've also made a number of investments in our investing in business innovation initiative to actually create start-ups of ICT firms in southern Ontario. There has been some activity in the first years of FedDev, and I expect we'll continue to work in that space going forward.