Queensland’s 2020 Vision
2020 Visions are the politician’s strategic equivalent of what Green ICT marketing is for technology vendors at the moment. They are everywhere. The trouble for the intended audience is trying to find...
View ArticleThe Great Debate and Queensland’s own political sh*t (tech) storm?
Imagine coming to work tomorrow in a world without technology? Back in November Sam asked that very question in a Longview article entitled, What the ICT industry needs is a great campaign. The...
View ArticleICT Policy: R&D set-backs should not go unchecked
Over the last few years we’ve made a few statements about the requirement for ICT to make it onto the national agenda as a foreign policy issue. Two clear areas stand-out worth exploring. Firstly, as...
View Article30 ICT policies in 30 days
For a relatively small, but highly successful country on the global stage our national leaders take an overly complex and often ambivalent view towards the role and potential of information and...
View ArticleICT Policy #2: Encouraging ICT strategy thinking within small business
First a few facts. 80% of Australian SMEs do not have an ICT strategy and most buy their technology from the retail channel on an ad-hoc basis. Taking 1-man operations out of the equation, Australia...
View ArticleICT Policy #3: Assigning an economic value to a digitally connected life in...
The economic value of a human life is often used in public policy decision making. It is regularly used to determine the viability of mega-infrastructure projects such as highway upgrades through...
View ArticleICT Policy #4: Fund and build a purpose-built application development campus
Equitable industry-based funding in government budgets has always been a contentious issue. Close to the top of the industry winners are always mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. And much of the...
View ArticleWhen associations drift too close to government
I’m just not sure that I am comfortable with the future of Queensland’s Digital Economy resting with the AIIA. At a lunch with over 200 people a few weeks ago the new ICT Minister Simon Finn gave a...
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