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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

60th Anniversary of CSIRAC

2009 Pearcey Celebration of CSIRAC 60th Anniversary was held on Wednesday 18th November 2009 at the Melbourne Museum, Victoria. The event was attended by 80 special guests was addressed by several distinguished speakers who highlighted the importance of Australian innovation 60 years ago with one of the worlds first stored program computers, CSIRAC. (Read more...)

2009 National Awards

2009 National Pearcey Event - On Thursday 1st October 2009 the 2009 Pearcey Medal and Pearcey Oration was held in Melbourne.

  • Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications, and Digital Economy gave a keynote and presented the 2009 Medal to Dr Murray Allen at a gala dinner.
  • Robyn Williams, of the ABC's Science Program, delivered the 2009 Pearcey Oration.
  • Preceding the dinner was a robust and lively roundtable debate regarding the impact of the newly announced NBN initiative on the Australian economy.

2009 Entrepreneur Awards

2009 - State Entrepreneur 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 information technology in Australia.

The 2009 Award winners were:

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

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