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Australia's most innovative in ICT hailed at 2013 National iAwards
THERE was enormous diversity in this year's national iAwards. CSIRO won the R&D prize for its Zebedee Mobile Mapping project, GS1 Australia and Australian Food & Grocery Council won the Consumer award for its GoScan program, while Geomatic Technologies and Sydney Trains won the Industrial prize for developing GT AIMS in support of Sydney Trains Mechanised Track Patrol (MTP).
Queensland's Department of Transport and Main Roads took the Government gong for its work with Transmax on the Queensland Emergency Vehicle Priority system, while the New Product winner was Avoka Transact's Transaction Experience Management Platform, an area in which UnityHealth and Xero also won a Merit award.
In addition, the evening saw Dr Alex Zelinsky of the ACT awarded the Pearcey Medal and the induction of two new ICT luminaries into the Pearcey Hall of Fame: Robert Elz (of Thailand) and Prof. Rod Tucker of Victoria.
The National 2013 iAwards winners were announced last week at the iAwards Presentation Ceremony and dinner held at Crown Melbourne. The 2013 iAwards was an impressive showcase of innovations in ICT and highlighted the many ways in which ICT is delivering innovation and can help to drive productivity and economic growth.
The iAwards is widely regarded as Australia's premier technology awards program, focused on recognising the contributions that ICT makes across all sectors of the Australian and global economies. The program provides a pathway for ICT professionals and students to achieve international recognition, with the journey for iAwards winners beginning each year with success at a local State or Territory level.
iAwards chair Russell Yardley said, "It's always rewarding to see the far reaching impact which the use of innovative technology has on our economy. ICT can lead to improvements in productivity and can also have a tangible impact on society in areas as vast as health, education, mining and the environment.
"This year's iAwards program again uncovered some exceptional innovations in the application of ICT across many different industry areas and showcased the true value of ICT to our nation. We congratulate every nominee, state and national winner for participating in this year's program and wish them well for the future."
In support of the continuing development of the program, the 2014 iAwards will include a new award, presented in conjunction with Hills Holdings: the Hills Young Australian ICT Innovator of the Year iAward.
Mr Yardley said of the new award, "By coming together to support these wonderful awards the three host organisations ACS, AIIA and the Pearcey Foundation are striving to engage industry, government and academia, to celebrate the incredible value that the ICT industry offers and to motivate our young people to aspire to follow careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics."
As the only truly international ICT awards program in Australia, company winners of the 2013 iAwards have the opportunity to compete with businesses from across the Asia Pacific region at the 2013 Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards.
Each year APICTA recognises the best in innovation from across the Asia Pacific ICT community. Past winners have gone on to international business success, secured funding, formed new partnerships and realised significant business growth as a result of their expanded horizons.
The Australian iAwards evening was attended by Minister Assisting Innovation and Industry, Senator Kate Lundy, and Victorian Government Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier Craig Ondarchie along with hundreds of guests from across the information and communication technology (ICT) industry, the wider business community, government and the education sector.
APICTA representative and Hong Kong Computer Society vice president, Stephen Lau, attended the evening to show the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance's endorsement of the 2013 iAwards program. The 2013 APICTAs will be held in Hong Kong 0n November 24 - 27.
About the iAwards
Over 19 years, the iAwards has become the premier technology awards platform in Australia delivering the most comprehensive awards program in the technology industry. Since 2011 the iAwards have been open to both the companies at the cutting edge technology innovation as well as leading professionals across the industry. The iAwards are judged by industry, for industry and provide achievements with public recognition that extends across the ICT sector to government, community and beyond. They are strongly focused on promoting essential relationships between the ICT industry and vertical business sectors in every field to promote the value of our industry where it counts most. Many winners of the iAwards have the opportunity to compete with businesses from across the Asia Pacific region at the APICTA Awards (Asia Pacific ICT Awards).
The organisations partnering the iAwards are the Australian Computer Society (ACS). The Australian Information Industries Association (AIIA) and The Pearcy Foundation.
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The 2013 Australian iAward winners are:
Research & Development winner: CSIRO (Qld) for Zebedee Mobile Mapping. Merit: Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO (WA) for the Computer-aided Ocular Biomarker Suite for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease; eWAY (ACT) for Rapid 3.0.
New Product winner: Avoka (NSW) for Avoka Transact - Transaction Experience Management Platform. Merit: Smart Services CRC & University of Sydney (NSW) for Cruiser Connected Surfaces Platform; Organic Response (Vic) for Organic Response.
Tools winner: Podzy Pty Ltd (Vic) for Podzy.
Financial winner: Xero and Payroll (Vic) for Payroll by Xero.
Industrial winner: Spectra QEST (SA) for QEST Quality Platform. Merit: Geomatic Technologies and Sydney Trains (NSW) for GT AIMS in support of Sydney Trains Mechanised Track Patrol (MTP) process.
Resources winner: V2i Pty Ltd (Qld) for the V2i immersive, integrated, content rich, eLearning platform for induction, OH & S and training. Merit: ITC Global (Australia) Pty Ltd (WA) for the BHP Billiton Iron Ore Integrated Remote Operations Centre (IROC) Satellite Service.
Consumer winner: GS1 Australia and Australian Food & Grocery Council (Vic) for GoScan. Merit: ISD Analytics (SA) for Simulait Online.
Education winner: SEQTA Software (WA) for The SEQTA Suite. MeritL Jacaranda and Media Saints (Qld) for Knowledge Quest: English; Genix Ventures Pty Ltd (Vic) for ProTRACK Lifecycle Management Platform.
Health winner: UnityHealth Pty Ltd (Vic) for The Integrative Medicine Gateway. Merit: SRA and NT Government Department of Health (NT) for ISARS; Australian e-Health Research Centre, CSIRO (WA) for the Automated Disease Grading and Clinical Decision Support for Diabetics Related Eye Disease.
Government winner: Queensland Department of Community Safety, Transmax and Qld Department of Transport and Main Roads (Qld) for Emergency Vehicle Priority. Merit: Department of Tourism, Major Events, Small Business and the Commonwealth Games (Qld) for the Business Industry Portal; CSIRO Computational Informatics and Bureau of Meteorology (ACT) for Environmental Linked Data.
Community winner: Gridstone (Vic) for EmergencyAUS. Merit: The Australian eHealth Research Centre, CSIRO (Qld) for Smarter Safer Homes Platform; Vision Australia and The Mastermind Group (Vic) for the Accessible Warehouse Manager System.
Regional winner: Landgate, University of Western Australia and Department of Fire and Emergency Services (WA) for Aurora for the Regions. Merit: Sense-T, University of Tasmania, Dept of Health and Human Services and CSIRO Intelligent Sensing and Systems Laboratory (Tas) for Sense-T Aquaculture Decision Support System (AquaDS). Merit: Centre for eCommerce & Communications, University of Ballarat (Vic) for Visualising Victoria's Groundwater.
Sustainability winner: Lingo Systems Pty Ltd (Vic) for PoolCar.
Secondary Student Project winner: Deinyon Davies of Oxford Falls Grammar School (NSW) for InRoad.
Undergraduate Tertiary Student winner: Jose Alvarado, Adriansyah, Huihyon You of Edith Cowan University (WA) for Parkinson iTest - A System to Provide Collaboration Between Patient and Supervising Clinician. Merit: F X Dio Budiraharjo, Scott Lambert, Anij Shrestha, Stephanie Pearl Siao, Curtin University (WA) for Project Zero Harm.
Postgraduate Tertiary Student winner: Jeremy Breen of the University of Tasmania School of Computing and Information Systems (TAS) for Autonomous analysis of marine sediment chemistry using an underwater robot.
CIO of the Year winner: Susan Sly (Vic).
ICT Professional of the Year winner: Dr Rod Dilnutt, FACS (Vic).
ICT Woman of the Year winner: Yvette Adams (Qld).
ICT Educator of the Year winner: AProf. Richard Buckland (NSW).
Start-Up winner: Organic Response (Vic) for Organic Response.
Victorian Government Inspiration Award winner: Organic Response (Vic) for Organic Response.
2013 CSIRO Benson Entrepreneur Award winner: Leni Mayo (Vic).
Pearcey Medallist: Dr Alex Zelinsky BSc, Phd (ACT).
Pearcey Hall of Fame: Dr Alex Zelinsky BSc, Phd (ACT).
Pearcey Hall of Fame: Robert Elz BA, LLB (Thailand).
Pearcey Hall of Fame: Prof. Rod Tucker, BEng, PhD (Vic).
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