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Information Integrity Solutions - IAPP Board Member The IAPP, the world's largest association of privacy professionals, today announced the appointment of four new directors to its Board. It now includes privacy leaders from Google Inc., Information Integrity Solutions Pty. Ltd., Kelley Drye & Warren and the U.S. Department of Justice. [...] IAPP Board President Kirk M. Herath [...] said the new Board members deepen the IAPP's focus on international and government privacy issues. The IAPP announced the appointment of these four new members to the Board of Directors: Malcolm Crompton, Managing Director, Information Integrity Solutions P/L; Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel, Google; D. Reed Freeman. Jr., CIPP, Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren; and Jane Horvath, Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer, U.S. Department of Justice. Crompton, Australia's former Privacy Commissioner, currently advises private and public sector organizations on strategies to build trust through their collection and use of personal information. During his 5-year tenure as Australia's Privacy Commissioner, Crompton implemented the country's private sector privacy law. "I am looking forward to working with the Board to introduce the benefits of the IAPP to a wider range of privacy professionals around the Asia Pacific region, where so much change is happening and the movement of personal information is expanding rapidly," Crompton said. |
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Global Access Partners - GAP Congress on Knowledge Capital 2005 'Soft' assets such as employee skills are the key creators of company value but they still haven't found their way into international accounting standards [...] In an address to the GAP Congress on Knowledge Capital last November, Special Minister of State Eric Abetz highlighted the problem when he asked the audience to account for the difference between the book and market values of some of the world’s largest companies. "Research has highlighted that a company like Microsoft is valued by the stockmarket at a price 10 times the value of tangible assets, while General Electric is on a 5:1 ratio and Coca-Cola on about 12:1," he said. "If buildings, machinery and other physical assets are not the only elements the stockmarket values when it looks at these companies, what is it that makes them so valuable? Yes, there is brand value and what we know as goodwill. But these elements only account for a portion of the gap between tangible assets and stockmarket valuations." [...] Fore more media coverage of the GAP Congress on Knowledge Capital see
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Global Access Partners - Virtual Opportunity Congress III "As assaults on the Internet grow in scale and sophistication, authorities on the online economy warn the information society, with its celebrated promise of opportunity, is in danger of receding into a world of mistrust, rising prices and monopolies. Advances associated with the Internet are at risk, they say, and efforts to combat these now need to be collective. [...] The Virtual Opportunity Congress III, held at Sydney's Parliament House, heard representatives from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union, US industry and Australian government and business. International authorities identified the need for greater cooperative regulation between sovereignties. A consultative committee was formed afterwards to collaborate on recommendations raised at the forum, at the instigation of the organiser, Professor Peter Fritz, chair of the steering committee of the GAP forum. On the agenda is the need for global collaboration to secure the online economy and ameliorate the risks to users. [...]" |
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Global Access Partners - Virtual Opportunity Congress III "...Australia already has a number of firms engaged in the security industry, ranging from Chubb Security, which is benefiting from increased demand for security guards, to small hi-tech companies such as QR Sciences, which is developing airport security technologies. In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, Herwig Schloegl, deputy secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, noted that the security sector was growing at 7 to 8 per cent per annum worldwide, with global turnover estimated at over $US 100 billion ($129 billion). Dr Schloegl also spoke last December at the Security and Risk: Challenges and Opportunities Sydney conference, organised by Global Access Partners. Dr Schloegl added that the "lion's share" of the security sector is found in the US, through Germany's market is worth 3 billion euro ($4.8 billion), and France and the UK 3 billion euro each. And several factors are comspiring to push the demand for security services even higher, according to Dr Schloegl. [...]" |
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Global Access Partners - Virtual Opportunity Congress III "New technologies such as broadband and wireless networking have raised the stakes of critical infrastructure protection, according to a top federal government official. The Attorney-General's deputy secretary of criminal justice and security, Peter Ford yesterday said the advent of always-on technologies such as broadband had made information security a more important component of critical infrastructure protection. [...] Speaking at the Virtual Opportunity Congress on security and risk, Mr Ford said co-operation between the private sector, state and territory government was also a challenge for critical infrastructure protection. [...] "Businesses are understandably wary of sharing information with their competitors." Mr Ford did not dismiss a proposal from the chair of the congress steering committee, Peter Fritz, that the Attorney-General's Department form a committee to discuss existing public policy and commercial strategies that deal with information security." |
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• "Australia hosts key security forum". - By Helene Zampetakis "Two problems stymie efforts to secure the electronic world: the risks to the internet are not fully understood and regulation is often at odds with other sovereignties. Next week Australia will take a decisive step towards changing that by hosting a high-level forum of international representatives from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union, US industry and Australian government and business. Delegates will seek to transcend the cultural stalemates that have hampered international co-operation to now. [...] The Virtual Opportunity Congress III, which is being held at the NSW State Parliament on December 16 and 17, will tackle issues ranging from the need for internationally co-ordinated regulation to the challenges and opportunities of internet security. [...] Professor Peter Fritz, chairman of the steering committee of the GAP Forum, hopes this will also advance Australian technology responses that balance solutions from the United States, Europe and Asia. "Risk is an opportunity for Australian technology developers. But we also need policies and training and a co-ordinated plan to respond to needs." |
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The GAP Forum on Informatics in Biology & Medicine 2003 "A unique Forum to address issues in informatics in biology and medicine was held on 4-5 December in Melbourne. Senior members of both the biotechnology and ICT industry came together to discuss the growth opportunities for Australia in the field of informatics. [...] Outcomes that will drive more effective systems for health management were a major focus of discussions during the Forum. A Consultative Committee has been formed to ensure that the outcomes of the Forum are actively pursued." |
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• "Forum to address sluggish bio-IT". - By Karen Dearne "The possibility of creating a "big science" project to boost Australia's profile in bio-IT and health informatics is to be discussed at a high-level meeting in Melbourne this Week. [...] "Australian's growth in bioinformatics is currently slower than in other countries, especially in Asia", a GAP spokesman said. "Informatics in biology and medicine requires the input of feeder industries, government and investors. It's agreed the industry here is fragmented and there is a need for centralisation." IBM Asia-Pacific bioinformatics specialist Tim Littlejohn said the forum would look at how health and life sciences "have turned into information industries, because they are now so information driven". [...] "One of the big challenges for Australia is the lack of big life-science projects compared with the US, Europe and Japan", he said. [...] GAP will play an ongoing role in the industry's business and policy development through a government consultative committee to be established this week." |
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TCG Group "Professor Peter Fritz, who has been developing Australian technology businesses even longer than John Howard has been in Parliament, setting up his company TCG in 1971, says increased competition and more stringent conditions means that getting a grant is harder than ever. He says, however, that a greater challenge is achieving an attitudinal shift among policy makers, encouraging them to see Australia as an economic force rather than a "pimple in the global firmament". As the group managing director of TCG, Fritz says he finds that Liberal and Labor governments are both willing to work with the IT sector but both suffer from short-termism. "We are not giving ourselves enough time. The BITS program is a roaring success but because it has not created an IBM in five years they are saying we have failed. But this has to be supported not for five but 10 or 20 years. We are not hanging in there long enough." |
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Global Access Partners - DATATRENDS "Jewellers have reaped the benefits of a surge in spending on fashion items over the past few years, but there are threats to that golden period. With shoppers being able to buy a quality watch over the internet from Japan for a delivery-included price of about $800, compared with $1100 at a local store, there are ample reasons for customers to look overseas. That's of particular concern to small jewellers, who suddenly finds themselves competing in a global jewellery market... Australians spent more than $2.8 billion on jewellery and watches in 2002 - an amount growing at twice the rate of overall consumer expenditure since 1999. With jewellery currently at the peak of a cycle, and at a growth rate double that of consumer expenditure, those in the industry need to look at managing a growth slowdown in the next few quarters..." |
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Global Access Partners - DATATRENDS "...Hairdressing is one of the traditional small business areas. The managing director of Datatrends Worldwide, Tony Langman, said Australians spend $2.5 billion on hair care each year. In relative terms, we outspend even the Americans. "On every dollar we spend, 0.6 of a cent is spent on keeping hair cut, styled, coloured, coiffured and blow-dried..." |
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| November 2002 | ||||||
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Information City "...Since April 2002, when the Federal Government decided to allocate $78 million to establish a network of IT incubators throughout Australia, the technology sector has fallen on hard times. The 10 incubators funded under the Building on IT Strengths (BITS) program are finding that attracting investment funds to start business is not easy. Information City Victoria executive director Robert Crompton says that in the wake of the technology-sector collapse, the time required to develop business is much longer and funding has been curtailed dramatically. "To get serious funding support now, the requirement is to have a well-established business," says Crompton..." |
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Global Access Partners - DATATRENDS "...Total expenditure on café and restaurants accounts for $27 billion... Between 1998 and 2002, growth in the café restaurant sector went from -3.6 per cent to 15.7 per cent. It is now 3.9 per cent, but it is slowing. "What will probably happen is there will be a resurgence of restaurant sector growth due to uncertainties of offshore travel and the relative certainties of staying in Australia, particularly in the holiday season," Langman said..." |
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| October 2002 | ||||||
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Information City "Early-stage funding for IT start-ups is at a critical low, but many new ventures jeopardise potential investment by only focusing on product development, a leading IT incubator has warned. ... Mr Crompton [...] said a lot of investors were focusing more on reconstructions and amalgamations rather than genuine start-ups. "A lot of them are saying 'we will not even look at anything under $5 million' and a number are saying 'we would prefer a $10 million start-point' [...] Mr Crompton said the next wave of investor interest would come from wireless computing and IT solutions that help big corporates become more efficient..." |
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• "Incubator in deal to fill funding gap". Working capital. - By Jason Clout "The looming consolidation of the venture capital industry has come a step closer with the first deal between a pooled development fund and an incubator. The shareholders of the incubator Information City have injected $200,000 into the Technology Development Investment PDF to give them a 10 per cent stake. [...] Information City has strong management processes and TDI has institutional investors like the meat employees industry superannuation fund, which means there should be a good fit between the two. Information City's executive director, Robert Crompton, said this was a unique deal. [...] "We bring a lot of systems and administration. It's a good mix because there is a commitment to early-stage businesses from both of us," he said..." |
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• "Incubating sustained business growth". - By Robert Crompton "...Australia's business incubation experience, like that of many other countries outside of the US, usually involves government support, in conjunction with cash and in-kind contributions from industry players. According to NBIA, the average incubator company creates 468 direct jobs and another 234 indirect ones. Further, the cost per job created in relation to public grants is more than US$1100, while the cost per job of other economic development programs runs three to six times higher. [...] While business incubators are an important contributor to creation of new jobs and wealth, both in Australia and overseas, recent studies have shown that the most effective are those that offer an extensive network of powerful business connections, enabling fledgling start-ups to beat their rivals to market..." |
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Eling Forest Winery "... Eling Forest is one of six wineries (five with cellar door open to the public) and 46 vineyards within Australia's newest designated wine region, the NSW Southern Highlands, an area previously best known for its tulips. Wineries are producers, which have the facilities to process their own or other growers' grapes, while vineyards either sell their fruit or have it made into wine elsewhere. [...] The quality of Eling Forest and Kells Creek reds lend weight to viticulturist Dr Richard Smart's prediction the Southern Highlands could become a top red wine region. "It might take 20 years but the area has good soils and a fantastic climate," Smart says. "The Southern Highlands gets lots of sun but with low temperatures and relatively moderate to high humidity, all similar to Bordeaux..." |
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Global Access Partners - DATATRENDS "Florists are blooming as customers spend up big on flowers and garden supplies. Over the past few years florists have been one of the growth areas in small business as consumers have allocated more of their expenditure to buying flowers as corporate and personal gifts. [...] Langman says the immediate prospects for florists and nurseries are good. He expects two more quarters of growth, and says the industry is likely to peak in early 2003..." |
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