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Who are we?The Pearcey Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 in memory of a great Australian ICT pioneer Dr Trevor Pearcey. The Foundation operates broadly across the Australian Information Communication Technologies (ICT) sector, from celebrating achievements through national and state awards, to being involved in debate and public policy on critical national issues such as productivity, the digital economy and national infrastructure. AwardsEach year, the Pearcey Foundation organises events and makes awards including:
The most prestigious Australian ICT Award to an individual is the Pearcey Medal. In 2012, the Pearcey Medal was awarded to Dr Mal Bryce AO. InitiativesThe Pearcey Foundation is also proactive in ICT initiatives. For example, in order to accurately measure the impact of ICT in the Australian Economy, the Pearcey Foundation has put forward a Proposal for a Digital Economy Economic Studies Institute (DEESI). The aim of the Institute would be to bring together fragmented and duplicated sets of statistics and analyses scattered among many government, academic and industry organisations. |
Awards and Events2013 Pearcey State AwardsCalling for entries in the State Pearcey Awards. This year's state awards are all in train in each state. The Pearcey Foundation is looking for nominees at any time. If you know of anyone please use the form on the Nominations page. The individual State Pearcey Awards in 2013 will be presented as follows:
2013 Tony Benson AwardThe winners of these awards will be automatic finalists in the Tony Benson Award for the National Entrepreneur of the year. Due to timing differences, the ACT and NSW Pearcey Award winners selected in Oct/Nov 2012 are their state finalists for the 2013 Benson Award. This year's Tony Benson Award will be presented at the 2013 iAwards gala dinner to be held on Thursday 8th August 2013 in Melbourne. For more details, please see Awards pages. |
NewsReport on Australia 3.0 ForumAs part of the 2012 iAwards program, the three organisations responsible for the 2012 iAwards (Pearcey, AIIA and ACS) also organised a debate on national productivity and how it might be improved through innovative applications of ICT. The debate was focused on four vertical areas:
The debate took the form of an on-line discussion using a social media tool for enterprises known as Yammer (moderated by Hub Melbourne) that commenced on the 1st July and continued until the day of the event Thursday, the 9th of August. On the Thursday 110 ICT professionals attended a five hour discussion facilitated by Roger Perry (CEO, Bevington Group)all of whom had participated in the five week of on-line discussions. A full report on what actually was discussed and what were the outcomes can be read in the Australia 3.0 Forum Report. "The Health of Australian Science"Professor Ian Chubb AC, Chief Scientist of Australia, delivered this paper at "Lunch at 401" (Collins Street) on Thursday 30th August 2012. Dr Chubb launched the "Science in my world" education program for Primary Scools which the Pearcey Foundation keenly supports. The event was organised by the Royal Society of Victoria. |
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