Archive
ICT Capital News - June 2006
Contents
- New members
- PWB Sector Project Manager
- Upcoming events
- Calling all Java Application Developers
- New ICTqualification
- Enterprise Development Grant
- Get Sustainable Challenge
- Noticeboard
1. Welcome to the following new members;
- Bruce Aylward - w3a
- Brian Bernon - Bernon Consulting
- Slade Boyle - Slades Computers
- Matt Freeman - Freeman Media
- Wendy Forman - Dual River
- Silverio Governo - Verve
- Tom LeGrice - Infinity Solutions
- Duncan McLachlan - Future Ecentric
- Kath McPherson - Optimation
- Vignesh Nadarahah - Singular
- Claire Tanner - Simply Calling
If you wish to find out more about our new members, please check out their capabilities and contact details on the Member Section.
2. PWB Apoints New Sector Project Manager
Many of you will have met Frances Manwaring at some of the recent events. She joined PWB at the end of March as Sector Project Manager for ICT and Creative Manufacturing. Frances is now PWB's representative on the Cluster Management Group and the point of contact for member queries.
London based for fifteen years, Frances worked for leading businesses in the international media and venture capital industries. Latterly she was investment director of a small private equity company for which she acted as company representative on the boards of directors of three investee businesses in the UK, France and Spain. Frances moved to New Zealand at the end of 1994 and, after more than six years as manager of a group of retail pharmacies, set up her own consulting business in 2001. Since then she has worked on a variety of projects across different sectors, most recently as project manager of the training and education partner programme of the Food Hawke’s Bay Major Regional Initiative. Frances holds a Master of Arts Degree with Honours in Medieval History and a post-graduate qualification in corporate management.
3. Upcoming events
You will shortly receive an invitation to the next Cluster Event being planned for late July. Don't forget to have a regular look at the calendar of events - there's a lot on!
4. Calling all Java Application Developers
PWB is hosting an event on 28 June 2006 in association with the Wellington Java User Group and the NZ JAIN SLEE Forum to outline what needs to happen to further develop a JAIN SLEE industry in Wellington. The Forum is looking to compile a capability database of Java Application Developers.
JAIN SLEE is a JAVA driven technology that will help realise telecommunication technology convergence. Not perhaps the most memorable of new technology acronyms, but the revenue potential from JAIN SLEE within the global mobile telecommunications sector is estimated to be worth billions. Industry analysts Moriana Group and Yankee Group predict that the Telco market for JAIN SLEE will be around US $20B by 2009, and in its wider application into other verticals up to US $40B. Examples where the opportunities will be are in mobile commerce, mobile games, security, re-bundling and combined services.
In this potentail market, Wellington has a lead as a result of the pioneering work of Open Cloud Limited and considerable invetment in R&D and infrastructure. Open Cloud was the global specification lead in the JAVA community process. It is the global market leader with its Rhino product line and has significant access and relationships with many of the major Telco industry players and most of their suppliers.
The JAIN SLEE Industry Forum in an industry-led and managed forum that is bringing the NZ key players together with the aim of maximising NZ's share of this emerging market. The Forum is speaking with all the main Telcos in NZ, as well as all the relevant and interested universities and R&D activity, and developing a database of JAVA Application Developers that would provide the backbone of the JAIN SLEE capability.
5. NEW ICT Qualification
Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Development (Electronics and ICT)
To achieve career progression and operate successfully in the workplace, it's important to keep up to date in your area of technical expertise and learn relevant business skills. Massey University and the University of Canterbury are collaborating to offer a Postgraduate Certificate designed to meet those needs. It may be studied over a two-year period, while you continue to work.
The Postgraduate Certificate will also contribute to the professional development requirements of:
• Engineers seeking to apply for Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) status or who have attained CPEng;
• Members of the New Zealand Computer Society.
The Certificate has been designed to meet the needs of graduates and those with equivalent work experience in the ICT sector. The high level outcomes of the qualification are to:
1. Incorporate professional practice rather than focus only on knowledge and skill transfer.
2. Encourage critiquing of current professional practice through reflection on workplace practice.
3. Enable recent entrants to the workplace to better realise their potential and to further develop their creative abilities.
4. Develop graduates who have the ability to synthesise their knowledge and skills in the workplace to exercise a higher level of professional judgement.
5. Encourage ethical decision making and practice.
6. Focus on graduates applying skills learnt in the workplace through an appropriate change in their work organisation.
6. Enterprise Development Grant
In the May budget, the Minister for Economic Develpment announced that the market development component of the Enterprise Development Grant scheme will reopen on 1 July 2006 with a substantial increase in funding. There are also some changes in elegibility criteria:
- Application details will be available from NZTE from 1 July 2006
- Firms will be informed from 1 October 2006 if their applications have been successful
Judging by the last round of available funding, strongly suggest you contact NZTE and start planning as soon as possible!
7. Get Sustainable Challenge
The Sustainable Busienss Network invites you to participate in the Get Sustainable Busienss Challenge. It can be tough on the journey towards sustainability – the Get Sustainable Challenge will assist you on this journey and make the challenges more rewarding. Entrants will be encouraged and enabled to monitor ongoing progress long into the future, and a framework to let the particular challenges of their business be brought into focus.
June – Get your Business Into Shape – Entries Close on June 30.
July - Anticipate your Success!
August – Time to Collect your award…Awards ceremony 31 August
The Get Sustainable Awards are your chance to be recognized for your businesses contribution to sustainability. Whethe you’re an old hand, or have just started, you have a chance of winning recognition. Register your interest by contacting Kirsten Gendall, SBN Central Regional Manager or visit the website.
8. Noticeboard
Congratulations to ICT Custer businesses Innaworks, Optimal Usability and Spikefine for being finalists in the 2006 Gold Awards.
If you are aware of any good news, drop us an email so we can tell all our members of your great achievements.
As we sometimes get requests to make contact with people and businesses with particular specialities, like the one for Java specialists, it's really worthwhile keeping your members details as complete as possible and up to date. If you do, we have a much better chance of putting you forward for any opportunities that arise in your area.
Well, that's it for now!
