Australian Computer Society

Strategy for Information Technology Research in Australia

What's new: Guide to the IT Research Strategy Draft Report, 9 August 1997

Discipline Research Strategy

• Draft Report, 8 August 1997
• By: Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering
• For: Australian Research Council
• Announced: 4 Jul 1996
• Submissions due: 31 December 1996
• Progress report: Temporary copy (usual copy: 25 February 1997)
• First report due: June 1997 (Draft Report, 8 August 1997).
• Open Forums
• Terms of Reference
• Working Party
• Steering Committee

ACS Resources

• Steering committee member: Tom Worthington, ACS President
  • Visit to MFP Technology Park, 29 May 1997
  • Canberra: Cambridge or Thebes?, 12 April 1997
  • First steering committee meeting: 18 October 1996, Sydney: background & report
• Working Party Member: Dr. Bernard Robertson-Dunn, International IT Research Colaboration, Wed, 18 Dec 1996 19:05:22 -0800
• Contributions for the ACS Submission to Associate Professor Tony Montgomery , Director of the ACS Computer Science Technical Board
• On-line discussion: ACS newsgroup
• Media Releases:
  • Fund IT Research, ACS Tells PM, 8 August 1997
  • ACS Seeks Input for Australian IT Research Strategy, 18 April 1997
  • ACS Sharpens Focus on Australian R&D, 3 March 1997
  • Australian Computer Society Backs Australian Strategy Project, 27 September 1996
  • ACS IT Expert for Australian IT Strategy Project, 25 July 1996
  • ACS to Formulate Australia's IT Research Strategy, 20 July 1996

Related reports:

• "A New Information Industries Strategy for the Nation - Submission to the Information Industries Taskforce", ACS, 19 February 1996 & Media release
• Australia's Science and Engineering Base for Information and Communications, Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council (ASTEC),
• See: 5.2. Applying Information and Communication Technologies from Developing Long-Term Strategies for Science and Technology in Australia, , Australian Science, Technology and Engineering Council (ASTEC)

Other Australian IT Studies Underway:

• National Information Industries Strategy
  • By: Information Industries Taskforce
  • For: Department of Industry, Science and Tourism
  • Announced: 22 August 1996
  • Professor Ashley Goldsworthy, chair of the IIT & Dr Terry Cutler, chair of the Information Policy Advisory Council, National Press Club 25 November 1996
  • Submissions Closed: 30 October 1996
  • ACS Submission & Media release
  • First report: 24 August 1997 (& ACS Media Release, 25 August 1997)
  • Spectator or Serious Player?, commissioned by Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, with a grant from DIST, 24 April 1997
• Information Industries Competitiveness Study
  • By: a consortium of The Allen Consulting Group Pty Ltd, Roger Allen & Associates Pty Ltd and Cutler & Company Pty Ltd
  • For: Department of Industry, Science and Tourism
  • Announced: 10 September, 1996
  • Submissions due: 30 October 1996
  • First report due: January 1997 (not released as at 2 March 1997)
• Information Policy Advisory Council
  • By: Dr Terry Cutler, Managing Director of Cutler & Company will chair the council.
  • For: Department of Communications and the Arts
  • Announced: 23 August 1996
  • Submissions due: Not stated
  • Professor Ashley Goldsworthy, chair of the IIT & Dr Terry Cutler, chair of the Information Policy Advisory Council, National Press Club 25 November 1996
  • First report issued: rural & regional.au/ for all, March 1997
  • Second report: "A national policy framework for structural adjustment with the new Commonwealth of Information", 27 April 1997 (& ACS Media Release)

• Three months on the InfoBahn looking for the on-line future
• ACS Home Page
• Tom Worthington's Home Page