Key Expertise

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 generally, but with particular reference to:

• emergent eBusiness technologies (a moving target, but recently including Internet plumbing, web commerce, smartcards and RFID, digital rights management, mobile commerce, ENUM, locator technologies, biometrics, P2P and Web 2.0)
• corporate strategies, architectures and business cases to enable the exploitation of emergent eBusiness technologies
• architectures to support entire industry sectors
• 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
• 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:
  • financial EDI
  • credit-cards, debit-cards and stored-value cards
  • multi-function chip-cards
• electronic publishing / eCommerce in digital goods and services,
  including metadata for discovery and information / content management
• eGovernment, including electronic service delivery, entry-point and portal architectures and governance, eDemocracy and eParticipation
• public policy issues, including:
  • trust and consent
  • legal aspects
  • stimulatory measures
  • measures to overcome impediments
  • regulatory measures
  • consumer, privacy and broader social concerns

Information Security generally, but with particular reference to:

• information security strategies, plans and reviews
• information security risk assessment and risk management
• identification, authentication and identity management,
  including cryptography, digital signatures, public key infrastructure, single-signon, and biometrics and its inadequacies
• software escrow
• malware
• evidentiary requirements

Information Privacy generally, but with particular reference to:

• privacy strategy for corporations and government agencies
• privacy risk assessment and risk management
• privacy impact assessment (PIA)
• adaptation of organisational procedures to ensure compliance with data privacy laws and appropriate protection of personal privacy, and privacy audit
• policy development relating to privacy issues
• privacy policy statements
• privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including anonymity and pseudonymity

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:
  • business case preparation and cost/benefit/risk analysis
  • project governance structures and processes
  • requests for proposals
  • responses to requests for proposals
  • proposal evaluation
  • commercial arrangements
  • project planning
  • project management
  • project audit
• 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
• information management and information policy
• content management and data management
• legal aspects, including contracts, copyright and patents

Created: 15 February 1995 - Last Amended: 20 June 2007
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