AIIA Bulletin
Leading the ICT business community
26 September 2005
In this issue:
AIIA Requests Your Views on the Potential AEEMA Merger
The Battle for ICT Talent
ICT Innovators to Share the Spotlight at AIIA Business Briefing
Comment from the Chairman: Collaborating with Indian Companies
Understand the Impact of Change on Your Business
Sales Training Workshop for Local ICT Companies
Who’s on Your AIIA Victoria Committee?
Role-Based Access Control to Aid Regulatory Compliance Mandates
New Members
Change to Commercial Ready Program
SEARCC 2005: Building Bridges with ICT
Dell Named Best Employer in Australia and NZ
Export Roundtable on Selling to US Government
Export News: Korea Electronics Show 2005

AIIA Requests Your Views on the Potential AEEMA Merger

As you are aware, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) and the Australian Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers’ Association (AEEMA) are currently discussing a merger proposal to form a new organisation. Read more

 
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The Battle for ICT Talent

The ICT industry must remove all impediments to attract talented people, not just women, young people or older workers, says AIIA’s Chief Executive Officer Rob Durie. Read more

 
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ICT Innovators to Share the Spotlight at AIIA Business Briefing

Australia must continue to generate breakthrough technologies to spur on our local ICT sector, generating jobs and wealth, but what can we do to maintain our position as innovators of ICT?

You can find out at AIIA’s next Business Briefing, which is one of the highlights on the ICT events calendar for 2005.

This special Business Briefing will be held in conjunction with a meeting of the Asia Pacific Information & Communications Technology Awards (APICTA) executive committee.

It will be addressed by Dr Wilson Tay, Vice President of the Multimedia Development Corporation in Malaysia. In that role, he is responsible for the national development of technopreneurs and growth of ICT SMEs in Malaysia. For attendees at the business briefing, Dr Tay will examine innovation in the ICT industry

In addition to Dr Tay, three Victorian winners from this year’s iAwards will share their thoughts on innovation in Australia. They are:
• Nick Russell, Managing Director of Inchain,
• George Parthimos, Managing Director of Torian, and
• Saul Midler, Managing Director of Securewrap.

Date: Thursday 29 September
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Venue: Windsor Hotel, Spring Street, Melbourne
Cost: $130.00 members, $160.00 non members
Registrations: Click here or contact Gener8
More information: Contact Gener8 on (03) 9429 0447 or fax
(03) 9429 0567

Join AIIA’s CEO, Rob Durie, and the APICTA executive committee for this special dinner, and discover the future technologies and ideas that will drive innovation in Australia and allow us to maintain our position as a leading edge user of ICT.

About APICTA
APICTA is an international ICT Awards program initiated by the Multimedia Development Corporation of Malaysia to increase ICT awareness in the community and assist in bridging the digital divide. By providing networking and product benchmarking opportunities to ICT innovators and entrepreneurs in the region, the program is designed to stimulate ICT innovation and creativity, promote economic and trade relations, facilitate technology transfer, and offer business-matching opportunities via exposure to venture capitalists and investors.

Multimedia Victoria (MMV) and Hudson are proudly
sponsoring this prestigious event.

Mulitmedia Victoria

Hudson

 
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Comment from the Chairman: Collaborating with Indian Companies

AIIA Chairman John PriceFrom 20 to 28 October 2005, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan, will be leading an ICT industry delegation to India. Read more

 
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Understand the Impact of Change on Your Business

AIIA members are invited to participate in a free benchmarking survey that measures employee perceptions of leadership, change, trust and commitment to an organisation. Read more

 
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Sales Training Workshop for Local ICT Companies

Local ICT companies are challenged not by a lack of drive, talent or ideas, but by the task of selling their products and services in an increasingly competitive market. Read more

 
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Who’s on Your AIIA Victoria Committee?

This issue, we profile Ron Gauci, who has more than twenty years of experience in the ICT industry in Australia. Read more

 
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Role-Based Access Control to Aid Regulatory Compliance Mandates

By Harvey Hindin, VP and Senior Analyst, Ideas International

Regulatory compliance is essential to an organisation’s business continuity planning. Lack of compliance could literally cause the business to be stopped in its tracks by government, stakeholder, or malicious third-party action. Read more

 
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New Members

Covansys Australia
iiNet
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Change to Commercial Ready Program

New rules apply to the Australian Government Commercial Ready program.

Commercial Ready is a competitive granting program that provides grants of between $50,000 and $5 million to Australian companies that are undertaking research and development, proof of concept and early stage commercialisation activities directed at the development of new products, processes or services.
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SEARCC 2005: Building Bridges with ICT

More than 60 Australian and international speakers will be on hand at this year’s SEARCC Conference from 28-30 September, 2005 at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre. Read more

 
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Dell Named Best Employer in Australia and NZ

Congratulations to AIIA member company, Dell, which was recently announced Best Employer in the 2005 Hewitt Best Employers in Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) study. Read more

 
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Export Roundtable on Selling to US Government

The Department of Finance, together with the ACT Exporters’ Network, will be hosting a roundtable discussion to provide input into the draft document "Selling to the US Government: A guide for business".
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Export News: Korea Electronics Show 2005

The Korea Electronics Show 2005 will be held from 11-15 October in Seoul.

The show enters its thirty-sixth year after having led Korea to economic prosperity and global leadership in IT over its first three and a half decades. Read more

 
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