The company is in the business of staying ahead of technology and its impacts.
Its areas of expertise accordingly migrate quickly. The following are indicative
of topics the company has been active in during the last 5-10 years. It is not
exhaustive.
eBusiness Technologies, including:
eBusiness – B2B,
including:
- corporate strategies and architectures
- business
cases to enable the exploitation of emergent eBusiness technologies
- business models utilising liberal copyright licences for software and content
- architectures to support collaborative undertakings, whether among strategic
partners or across entire industry sectors; including portals, entry points
and inter-operability protocols and standards
- all forms of electronic
trading, including supplier directories, product catalogues, technological
capability registers, B2B exchanges, online auctions, and coding schemes
for
suppliers, and for goods and services, and extending to carbon
trading schemes
- electronic transaction mechanisms, including electronic
data interchange (EDI) for structured messages, e-mail for unstructured
communications, electronic conferences, video-telephone, video-conferencing
and the transmission of design data
- electronic
payment and mechanisms
to support it, including:
- electronic
publishing / eCommerce in digital goods and services, including:
- both conservative and liberal approaches to copyright licensing
- metadata
for discovery and information / content management
- B2B adoption factors
- B2B impediments to adoption, and how to overcome them, especially trust
eBusiness – B2C,
including:
eGovernment,
including:
Information and IT Security
generally, but with particular reference to:
Information Privacy generally,
but with particular reference to:
Information Infrastructure, and the Information
Economy and Society generally, but with particular reference
to:
- Internet architecture, operation
and
governance
- Internet technologies and infrastructure
- Internet 'growing pains' (such as cookies,
spam,
'Information
wants to be free ...', malware,
defamation,
inadequate
judicial understanding of technology, content
regulation, gambling
regulation, software
product liability)
- strategic planning for Intranets, Extranets and the Internet more broadly
- electronic
publishing, and cross-media publishing
- net-based
payment mechanisms
- public confidence and trust
issues
- regulatory issues
- criminal
investigation issues
- public policy, including access, equity and the regulation of cyberspace
behaviour
- open
source, open content and open access
Information Technology Management
generally, but with particular reference to:
- technology evaluation
- major information technology projects, particularly those that involve many
parties, and including:
- risk assessment in relation to information technology projects
- information technology architectures to support both application development
and maintenance, and ongoing operations, including later-generation
development languages and tools
- content management and data management
- legal aspects, including contracts, copyright
and patents
Information Management
generally, but with particular reference to:
- copyright licensing
- open content, open access, Free for Education (FfE) and Creative Commons
(CC) licences
- metadata to support information management and to support discovery
- document and data formats
- content management
- data management
- data quality assurance
- identity management and authentication
- risk assessment and business continuity
- retention and archival
- governance aspects
Information Policy
generally, but with particular reference to:
- access and equity
- regulation of Internet behaviour, incl. defamation, gambling, prohibited
materials
- eConsultation
- eParticipation
- eDemocracy
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