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Who are we?

The Pearcey Foundation aims to be the conscience of the Australian ICT Community.

It was founded in 1998 in memory of a great Australian ICT pioneer Dr Trevor Pearcey to promote the significance of the ICT sector and its ability to positively contribute to the Australian economy.

Objectives

The Pearcey Foundation is a non-profit organisation committed to articulating and advancing the vital role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in ensuring Australia’s sustained prosperity. The Pearcey Foundation recognises innovation and contributions in ICT through national and state awards and runs regular public events and debates on critical national issues such as productivity, the digital economy and technology-related public policy.

Activities

Each year, the Pearcey Foundation organises Events and makes Awards including:

National Awards which recognise outstanding achievement in Australian ICT
State Awards to recognise upcoming individuals in each Australian State
National Debates on critical issues affecting the Australian ICT Industry
Pearcey Oration by an eminent Australian on critical ICT issues

The most prestigious Australian ICT Award to an individual is the Pearcey Medal. In 2009, the Pearcey Medal was awarded to Murray Allen.

Initiatives

Proposal for an Economics Studies Institute

The Pearcey Foundation has recognised that Australia needs a combined repository of knowledge and skills about the impact (or potential impact) of ICT and digital media technologies on the Australian economy and broader community.

To address this, the Pearcey Foundation has proposed the establishment of a "hubs and spokes" Digital Economy Economic Studies Institute ("DEESI"), with broad support from most arms of government and industry.

The aim of DEESI would be to bring together fragmented and duplicated sets of statistics and analyses scattered among many government, academic and industry organisations.
This will enable a clear understanding of the impact and associated opportunities for technology in Australia from which policies, programs, initiatives and activities can be developed to maximise Australia's true capabilities.
It is intended that DEESI is a self sustaining institute, supported by services revenue, grants and endowments.

For further details please contact Wayne Fitzsimmons, Charles Lindop, Len Rust or Phil McCrae.

National Debates

The announcement in March 2009 by the Federal Government of the $43 Billion National Broadband Network (NBN) initiative, has stimulated substantial interest throughout Australia and especially within the ICT sector. With this in mind, the Pearcey Foundation held on the 1st October 2009, a public debate on the economic, business and social impact of the NBN on this nation as part of the 2009 National Pearcey Event held in Melbourne.

The National Debate the previous year was in Sydney as part of the 2008 National Pearcey Event and discussed the Cutler Review of Innovation in Australia.

Events & Awards

2010 Pearcey Medal Event

This year’s Pearcey Medal will be awarded on Wednesday evening 22nd September 2010 at a gala dinner in Brisbane. This 2010 Pearcey National event will form part of the 2010 World Computer Congress (WCC) (http://www.wcc2010.org/)and its major Congress Dinner all being held at the Brisbane Convention Centre. The WCC is a major international ICT International event being hosted in 2010 by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) on behalf of the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) – Australia hosted a previous IFIP conference in 1980 in Melbourne. The format of the evening is currently being finalised and will include

The presentation of the 2010 Pearcey Medal
The presentation of the 2010 Pearcey Queensland Award to an emerging entrepreneur
The Pearcey Oration to be delivered by Dr Megan Clark, CEO of CSIRO

The National Committee of the Pearcey Foundation are delighted Dr Clark will speak about CSIRO’s R&D vision for the future which is particularly relevant for Australia’s leading national R&D organisation in the context of an international conference such as the 2010 WCC. In addition to the evening event, the Pearcey foundation will hold a panel discussion session, immediately prior to the evening event, on the topic of government funded ICT R&D institutions and their priorities for the future. Included in the panel of speakers are Dr David Skellern (CEO of Australia’s National ICT R&D centre - NICTA) and Dr Alex Zelinsky, Group Executive, Information Sciences at CSIRO.

2010 Pearcey State Awards

Nominations are now open for the 2010 Pearcey State Awards.

These state-based awards recognise and celebrate the achievements of Australia's ICT entrepreneurs.
They are presented to individuals who have made a significant mid-career contribution to advancing ICT in Australia.

Details are being finalised on dates and venues as follows:

Queensland - as part of the 2010 Pearcey Medal Event set for Wednesday evening 22 September at the Brisbane Convention Centre. The event will be included in the 2010 World Computer Congress (http://www.wcc2010.org/) and organised by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) on behalf of the International Federation on Information Processing (IFIP).
New South Wales - at Parliament House Sydney on Tuesday 19th October 2010 in conjunction with NICTA
Aust Capital Territory - Thursday 16th September 2010 in conjunction with ACS Canberra Branch and the Canberra Business Council
Victoria - was presented to Brett Paterson as part of the ACS Fellows dinner on Tuesday 22 June 2010 (read more...)

South Australia - in conjunction with the SA ACS Branch one day conference on Thursday 21st of October 2010 at 4.30PM in Adelaide
Tasmania - to be advised

Please email admin@pearcey.org.au if you have any questions about our Events, Awards, Nominations, Initiatives or Sponsorship.