ICT Centre of Excellence Advisory Panel
The following documents and information are provided for historical reference purposes only:
An Advisory Panel of eminent researchers and business people was appointed to oversee the establishment of the Centre. Following consultation with stakeholders, the Advisory Panel developed the application guidelines.
The Advisory Panel assessed the applications and made a recommendation to the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, and the Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs, who jointly decided on the operator of the Centre.
In April 2002 as a result of the passing away of Mr Norman McCann (Chair until March 2002), Mr Neville Stevens was appointed to the position of Chair of the Advisory Panel. In a media statement, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Senator Richard Alston said that, "the Australian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector has lost a great friend and advocate".
The members of the ICT Centre of Excellence Advisory Panel were:
Mr Neville Stevens, Chair
Former Australian Public Service
Professor Vicki Sara
Australian Research Council
Dr Chris Nicol
Head, Wireless Research and Development, Bell Labs Australia, Lucent Technologies
Dr Michael Sargent
Managing Director, MA Sargent & Associates
Dr James Fox
Managing Director, Vision Systems Ltd
Dr Rod Badger
Deputy CEO, NOIE
Mr Norman McCann (deceased)
Managing Director, Hewlett-Packard,
(Chair of panel until March 2002)Dr David Skellern
Director, Technology, Wireless Networking Business Unit, CISCO
(resigned from Panel 29 November 2001)Mr Lloyd Roberts
CEO, SMS Management & Technology
(resigned from Panel 11 December 2001)Dr Geoff Garrett
Chief Executive, CSIRO
(resigned from Panel 13 September 2001)
The Advisory Panel was assisted in the assessment of the applications by a number of internationally renowned ICT researchers. The International Advisers attended the interviews with the short listed applicants between 2-5 April 2002. These International Advisers provided a global perspective through their extensive experience in managing world class research facilities to the ICT Centre of Excellence assessment process. The International Advisers were:
Professor Steve Beaumont
Director, Institute for System Level Integration, ALBA Centre, Scotland www.sli-institute.ac.uk
Professor A. Richard Newton
Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA http://www.coe.berkeley.edu
Professor Raj Reddy
Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, USA http://www.cs.cmu.edu
Professor Dr Joerg Siekmann
Head, Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany http://www.dfki.de/
The Advisory Panel finalised its report in late April 2002. Ministers made their decision and announced on 22 May 2002 that National ICT Australia was the preferred applicant to establish and operate the ICT Centre of Excellence.
