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The 24 members of the Federal Government’s new Information Technology Industry Innovation Council (ITIIC) have been announced.
Welcoming the Council at its first meeting, Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, declared that their advice will be vital to developing a key enabler of Australian innovation with the industry worth $98 billion and directly employing more than 400,000 Australians.
The ITIIC will work in conjunction with the Government’s National Broadband Network to assist innovation through delivering smart technology. It will have a wide strategic agenda, considering innovation within the IT industry itself and also the function of technology in creating innovation across the broader economy.
In his keynote, Council Chair, Mr John Grant, stated that harnessing innovative and entrepreneurial IT talent for the greater benefit of Australian industry, “will be one of the Council’s greatest opportunities.”
Drawing from across the entire IT spectrum, Council members include representatives from industry and suppliers to education and government.
The 24 Council Members are:
Mr John Grant (Chair) – Managing Director, Data#3 Pty Ltd
Mr Glen Boreham – Managing Director, IBM Australian & New Zealand
Mr Michael Clifford – Queensland State Secretary, Finance Sector Union
Prof. Peter Cole – Assoc. Prof. and Dean of School of IT, Murdoch University
Mr Steve Conolly – Vice President, Siemens IT Solutions & Services, Siemens Ltd
Mr Tom Crago – CEO, Tantalus Interactive Pty Ltd
Mr Bob Cupitt – CEO, The Learning Edge International Pty Ltd
Mr Peter Dalton – Group General Manager, Innovation, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group
Ms Belinda Dennett – Adviser, Office of the Minister for Broadband, Communications & the Digital Economy (Observer)
Ms Ros Eason – Senior Industrial Officer, Communications Division, Communications Electrical & Plumbing Union
Ms Tracey Fellows – CEO, Microsoft Australia
Ms Mia Garlick – Assistant Secretary, Digital Economy, Dept. of Broadband, Communications & the Digital Economy
Dr Graham Hellestrand – CEO, Embedded Systems Technology Inc.
Ms Amanda Heyworth – CEO, Playford Capital Pty Ltd
Ms Anne Hurley – CEO, Communications Alliance
Mr Jan Janssen – Senior Vice President, Design and Development, Cochlear Limited
Mr Paul Kristensen – Executive Chairman, Capital Technologies Pty Ltd
Mr Mike Lawson – General Manager, Competitive Industries Branch, Dept. of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research
Mr Kumar Parakala – President & Chairman, Australian Computer Society
Ms Suzanne Roche – Director, Smartnet Pty Ltd
Mr Neville Stevens AO – Chairman, National ICT Australia (NICTA)
Mr Randall Straw – Deputy Secretary, Dept. of Innovation, Industry & Regional Development, Victoria
Mr Chris Winter – Manager, New Services, ABC Innovation
Dr Alex Zelinsky – Director & Group Executive, CSIRO Information & Communications Technologies Centre
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David
July 22nd, 2009 at 4:06 am
From the article I can form no sense of what this council will actually do. Also don’t the words “innovation” and “council” sit rather uneasily together?
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Bruce Hardy
August 6th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
No surprises here !! The same old, easy, boring, just plain dumb, pick-a-state / pick-a-sex / pick-a-senior position list of drones you’d expect.
In fact if we remove the bureaucrats (who write reports about innovation but don’t actually innovate), the CEOs of local Multinational box sellers (who try to stifle any good local innovation but don’t actually innovate themselves) the VCs (who don’t invest in innovative companies because its too risky) and the academics who whine about how we don’t innovation (but don’t actually innovate), we’re left with just 6 or 7 people out of 24 people … ie just 25% of the group named have actually really innovated and sold something.
For God sake, why doesn’t Kim Carr and his scaly mates actually get some balls and select real innovators – the people and companies who are building the future of this country, actively innovating and selling overseas not just the same dry old drones. Companies like RF Innovations, Optalert, Auria, Taggle, AP Systems, Minesite, BlueAnt, Majitek, Avega etc etc – the list goes on and on but the government doesn’t see !
No wonder we’re f*cked as a country when we cf with the Valley or Israel or even Finland. No leadership, no risk taking, no balls, no idea
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