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IIM February 2020 Newsletter Articles

3/2/2020

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear fellow information professionals.

As Australia started a lengthy and difficult process of recovery from the bushfires that engulfed our country in recent months, we are faced with another crises that is spreading around the world.  The coronavirus has already spread to 25 countries all over the planet, infecting over 20,000 people.

In his recent press conference statement in relation to the Novel Coronavirus epidemic, Prime Minister Scott Morison highlighted that  "...a key part of our armoury in dealing with this coronavirus issue is Information and having the right information and ensuring people are going to the right source of information and making decisions based on that accurate information.  And I would encourage all Australians to focus on getting that information from the trusted sources ..."
(Scott Morrison, Press Conference, 29 Jan 2020, Australian Parliament House). 

As information is in the core of our interests, passion and specialisation, we echo this message and strive to provide you with the intelligent information for smarter decisions.

Among many other interesting articles, this issue of your IIM newsletter aims to provide you with some essential information about coronavirus, how it is spreading, how it works, how to protect yourself and make smarter and informed decisions about the safety and well-being of your family.  

Understanding the essential facts related to viruses and having right information are fundamental for the proper understanding, protection and response in crisis like this, in order to minimise the health risks to yourself and people around you.
 
Vladimir Videnovic
National President

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Novel Coronavirus Outbreak Information

Coronaviruses is a family of viruses that can cause mild illness, such as the common cold and gastrointestinal infections, as well as more severe illness.  We are currently exposed to  an outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus called ‘novel coronavirus’ or ‘2019nCoV’.  
 
This article provides some additional information about the coronavirus, how it works, how it spreads and what to do to protect yourself and people around you.

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Globalisation and Health

The importance of information sharing for the prevention and control of infectious diseases has long been recognised.  In recent times, public health emergencies such as avian influenza, drug-resistant malaria, Ebola and now coronavirus outbreak have brought renewed attention to the need for effective communication channels between health authorities, particularly in regional contexts where neighbouring countries share common health threats.  However, little empirical research has been conducted to date to explore the range of factors that may affect the transfer, exchange and use of public health data and expertise across borders.

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Reinventing Cybersecurity with Artificial Intelligence – The new frontier in digital security – Capgemini Research Institute

A constantly evolving IT/OT landscape and ever-expanding attack surfaces lead to increasingly complex security challenges. Many firms have already begun exploring how AI in cybersecurity can help mitigate these risks: AI in cybersecurity adoption rates are on the rise. For firms that have yet to start using AI in cybersecurity – as well as firms that are already using it - there are a number of steps that are critical to realizing AI’s cybersecurity potential. Organizations next need to build a roadmap that addresses infrastructure, data systems, applications landscapes, skill gaps, best practices, governance, and use case selection and implementation.

AI-fuelled organisations – Reaching AI’s full potential in the enterprise
 
To become a true AI-fuelled organisation, a company may need to fundamentally rethink the way humans and machines interact within working environments. Executives should also consider deploying machine learning and other cognitive tools systematically across every core business process and enterprise operation to support data driven decision-making. Likewise, AI could drive new offerings and business models.

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IIM Newsletter January 2020 "Intelligent Information for Smarter Decisions"

14/1/2020

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear fellow information professionals

Welcome to 2020.

In Australia, the new year started with horrific bushfires that decimated our beautiful country.  As of today, 28 lives were lost, over a billion native animals perished, an estimated 10.7 million hectares of land and forests burnt and over 5,900 buildings demolished, including 2,200 homes. 

We acknowledge the firefighters, our tireless heroes who have been battling this enormous war against fire for many weeks.

We dedicate this IIM newsletter to people in need of information to understand their situation and make smarter and informed decisions about their safety and well-being. 

Although fire is a natural phenomenon in our environment, fire weather in Australia is clearly becoming more extreme and the fire seasons are longer.  As climate change is projected to exacerbate the warming and drying of our continent, there will be an increase in fuels that are drier and more ready-to-burn.  We are likely to face an increase in the number of days where the fire danger is characterised as “severe”.

Understanding the key factors relevant for the fire management and having right information are fundamental for the situational awareness and proper planning, preparedness, response and action as fire-driven disasters are becoming our reality.  We as a nation must be more rational in the way we collect and use the available data to improve our understanding of our fire-prone environment, to make smarter decisions that will help us prevent fire disasters and proactively manage risks. 

But most critically we all need to consider our own role, actions and lifestyle choices to reduce our impact on the natural environment, as climate change will continue to devastate communities across the world if we do not take action now.

On behalf of the IIM, I wish you a safe, healthy and bushfire-free decade.

 
Vladimir Videnovic
National President

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INFORMED ABOUT BUSHFIRE
Being informed is crucial in an emergency.  When it comes to a bushfire, knowing what is happening, how far away is the fire front, is the fire under control, is the current location a safe place, which roads are blocked or likely to become blocked, what to do, where to go, how to protect from the fire hazards, and when to leave are all important pieces of information that people need to consider when making decisions that could reduce the risks to their lives, lives of others and to best protect their property.

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AIR QUALITY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
The Bureau of Meteorology works closely with State and Territory fire agencies to support their operations and keep Australians safe, including the acquisition of information from the State and Territory health and environment agencies, which are responsible for monitoring bushfire smoke and warning the community when the air quality exceeds safe levels.

Due to the bushfire crisis in Australia, since November several Australian cities have been measured as having the worst air quality in the world, for example Port Macquarie in Nov/Dec, and Canberra in Dec/Jan.

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Source: https://www.plantbasednews.org

FIRE INFORMATION
Fires in Australia are becoming more frequent and more devastating in their nature.  The fire weather becomes more extreme and the fire seasons are longer.  The projected warming and drying in southern and eastern parts of Australia will lead to generating fuels that are drier and more ready-to-burn, with an increase of days with severe fire danger.  Fuel load and human activities are very important factors in increasing the risk of fire.  However, weather conditions including drought, strong winds and extreme temperatures are a major cause that influences the number, intensity, manageability, speed and size of bushfires. 

Understanding these factors and managing the information related to the weather conditions, eco-system vulnerabilities and situational awareness are essential for proper planning, preparedness, response and action when a fire-driven disaster strikes.

Fire Management Information Systems provide access to information concerning fire management activities.  These systems integrate data from remote sensors and Geographic Information System (GIS) technologies to deliver information about fire locations and burned area information, which is used by natural resource managers, firefighters and general public to understand the associated risks, derive informed decisions and to accurately and timely plan, monitor and assess fire management activities.


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IIM Newsletter December 2019

19/12/2019

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CSU's IIM Award Winner
Tim Hennessey

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CSU's IIM Award Winner
The Institute for Information Management (IIM) prize  was awarded this year to Mr. Trent Hennessey for achieving outstanding successes while completing the Information and Knowledge Management specialisation, with Distinction, as part of his Master degree.

In his usual work role, Trent is a senior librarian in Giblin Eunson library at the University of Melbourne, and specialises in providing expert guidance on company and industry resources, as well as support the learning, teaching and research needs of the Faculty of Business Economics and Melbourne Business School. The IIM prize Trent receives includes a cash award of $300, one year's individual membership to the Institute of Information Management, and an inscribed certificate.

About the School of Information Studies (SIS) @ Charles Sturt University: SIS is an established 30 years old institute; a global leader in the world of information and library studies (LIS); is the largest and now the only school amongst Australian universities devoted to LIS education and research.

The School currently has around 2,000 students enrolled in the Bachelors and Masters of Information Studies, the Master of Education (Teacher Librarianship) and other specialist courses. It also has fifteen full-time academic staff, teaching and researching in a wide range of LIS subfields, many adjunct and sessional staff, and a large cohort of PhD students.

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SPY: Espionage in Australia – an exhibition about intelligence work at the National Archives of Australia
On 28th of November the “Spy: Espionage in Australia” exhibition was officially opened. This fascinating new exhibition with an everlasting intriguing theme reveals the stories of secret agents and the curious history of espionage and counter-espionage in Australia, from the early days of our Federation through to the present day.

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An Excellent Beginner’s Guide To Information Architecture (IA)
The world certainly needs information architects. In the information age we live in, it’s more important than ever before that every organization working with data is conscious of IA, that they plan ahead, plan carefully, and make sure that their content doesn’t turn into an unruly, illogical beast.
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Knowledge Management and the Digital Native Enterprise

Technology will change the way people perform work and will thereforeaffect the operating model of organisations. "The key challenge for Fourth Industrial Revolution organizations is to harness the real potential for digital transformation by having an integrated strategy and a holistic approach towards knowledge management". Ganesh Natarajan
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Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity.
Never knowing when they’ll use their evil prowess to destroy our credit or shut down the local power plant, what we need now are smart machines that help security professionals in the fight against this evil reality.  Cybersecurity is one of the greatest challenges of our generation.
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IIM Newsletter November 2019

13/11/2019

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Dear IIM members and affiliates

Since the October IIM newsletter, there was a plethora of interesting events, meetings and happenings related to our industry.  The world of information is not showing any signs of slowing down.  From the world summits on using geographic information and earth observations in Canberra, our own seminar on “Artificial Intelligence at Work” that was broadcasted around the globe, to the opening of the exciting exhibition “SPY: Espionage in Australia” at the National Archives of Australia last night.

You can read about some of the exciting news and interesting activities and themes in this issue.

Your IIM also had our Annual General Meeting, which celebrated a very successful year with activities and events held across our country and set foundations for exciting 2020.

Yours sincerely
Vladimir Videnovic
President

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GEO Week provides a unique forum where governments, businesses, the research community, non-for-profit organisations and other communities concerned with the well-being of our planet come together to share views, mature the overall vision for the GEO future, cooperate on issues and create solutions.

Building on the Mexico City Declaration from 2015, the GEO Week 2019 focused on the GEO Strategic Plan aiming to bring the GEO communities together in order to grow the understanding and importance of Earth Observations.  Most of the business decisions today need to carefully consider how they impact the changes of “GEO”, our planet.

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SPY: Espionage in Australia – an exhibition about intelligence work at the National Archives of Australia
29 November 2019 to 27 April 2020
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Artificial Intelligence in Business: Balancing Risk and Reward.
AI technology is evolving faster than expected and is already surpassing human decision making in certain instances. And sometimes, in ways we can’t explain. While many are alarmed by this, AI is producing some of the most effective and dramatic results in business today.
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Age of Intelligence - By Microsoft AI
Age of Intelligence – Democratizing AI to empower individuals, organizations and society towards fulling the promise of holistic growth.
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Microsoft’s vision for AI in the enterprise
At Microsoft, we believe that the enterprise can achieve far more with a comprehensive AI strategy rather than incremental changes through isolated use cases. Our vision for the enterprise is to enable every company to transform by bringing AI to every application, every business process, and every employee—and as a result, achieves more than they ever thought possible.
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A Developer’s Guide to Building AI Applications - Create Your First Intelligent Bot with Microsoft AI
This book will show you how to create your first AI application in the cloud, and in the process learn about the wealth of AI resources and capabilities that are now rapidly becoming available to programmers. The application we create will be an AI-infused Bot, a "Conference Buddy," that helps create a novel Question and Answer experience for the attendees and speakers participating in a conference.
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National Archives of Australia Media Release for World Digital Preservation Day

7/11/2019

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Increasingly, the things we want to keep have been created and stored on digital media, from floppy disks to digital video cassettes. Alarmingly, many once-modern formats are now considered ‘critically endangered’. According to the worldwide Digital Preservation Coalition, such formats include portable magnetic media more than 5 years old, including floppy disks, Zip disks, reel-based magnetic tape, MiniDV and digital audio tape (DAT).
In securing our digital heritage, the National Archives of Australia has led the way in preserving and migrating files on these at-risk media to sustainable formats.

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"Ethics in AI Seminar" Video Recording

30/10/2019

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Sponsor
The Institute for Information Management and DAMA Australia have joined together to present a seminar series, focused around the practical use and experiences related to implementing solutions based on the Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The theme for the second seminar in this series is "Ethics in AI".

Speakers
Dr Richard Lucas. Dr Richard Lucas spent 17 years as an IT professional in both the public and private sectors. He has been in the tertiary sector for the past 22 years. He is the Head of Discipline for Information Systems at the University of Canberra and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
City AI Representative
City.AI has emerged into the world's leading non-profit connecting the AI community globally and supporting local AI ecosystems
David Williams
David is the 2019 ACT Australian of the Year - Local Hero. During the week, David works as a Program Manager in a Federal Government agency.
Ethics in AI Panel Discussion
Dr Richard Lucas, Australian National University
Dr Asim Qayyum, Charles Sturt University
Dr Rohan Baxter, Australian Taxation Office
Dr Neil Brittliff, Data Scientist, Microsoft
David Williams, Program Manager, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission
Surend Dayal, Chief Executive Officer, Magia Solutions
Jerome Reid, Director Plan Jericho, Australian Air Force

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IIM Newsletter Issue 10 – October 2019

7/10/2019

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Vladimir Videnovic National President
Dear fellow information professionals
I am pleased to present the IIM Newsletter in a new ‘look and feel’, the result of the hard work by our directors Linda Shave and Robert Goode – a huge thanks to them.
In the last couple of months, we have held a couple of successful activities:
  • in Perth their August seminar "Business Intelligence and Information Management using out of the box SharePoint and Outlook365";
  • in Canberra on the 29th Aug (jointly organised with DAMA Australia) we held the inaugural seminar of a series of dedicated to the field of Artificial Intelligence, called AI@Work. 
The inaugural AI@Work seminar was very well attended, and we are now working on the next session, with the theme "Ethics in AI".   As we did with the first seminar, we plan to broadcast this seminar live via internet so our interstate community can participate in this exciting event.  
A copy of Perth's August seminar and the recording of the first "AI@Work" video are available on IIM’s website.
I hope that you will enjoy reading articles prepared for you in this newsletter.  Please provide us with your feedback on the content and the new look of your IIM eNewsletter (please send feedback to iim@iim.org.au).

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1st Seminar Report
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From the successful Information Awareness Month (IAM) 2019, the presidents of DAMA (Andrew Smailes) and IIM (Vladimir Videnovic) agreed to collaborate on a series of seminars focusing on the practical use and experiences of AI solutions.

Speakers at the first seminar in August were Tony Krizan CFO and CIO NHMRC; Dr Neil Brittliff Data Scientist Microsoft; Jovan Stojanovic tech entrepreneur and founder of the Agronomio startup company and Tony Boyle Automated Reasoning Alliance  sponsor to the event.


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Skills: the job currency of the future.
As the jobs we are doing will change, so too will the skills that we need to succeed in them. Some of these are well-known; for example, the growing demand for people with coding and programming skills.
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Digital Megatrends a perspective on the coming decade of digital disruption
Australian industry faces imminent and critical skills shortages.

This report captures some of the emerging socio-economic and human issues associated with adapting to a digitally enabled world.
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Deloitte-Adobe Rethinking the digital dividend: Government needs to deliver better citizen digital experiences.
Governments need to renew their commitment to digital transformation - not with more "IT projects" - but by focusing on improving and simplifying citizen experiences of government services, through better use of data and build digital platforms that support it.
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The new physics of financial services how artificial intelligence is transforming the financial ecosystem
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how financial institutions get and keep customers.  AI offers the opportunity for significant market innovation. The one certainty is that firms must adapt their products and services for the day when AI automates customers' financial lives-or much of it, anyway-and improves their financial outcomes
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IIM & DAMA "AI @ Work" Video August 2019

3/10/2019

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Presenters:
Tony Krizan
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Information Officer, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Neil Brittliff, Data Scientist, Microsoft

Jovan Stojanovic, AI Enthusiast, City AI

Anthony Boyle, Director, Automated Reasoning Alliance


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IIM Perth Seminar - August 2019 Presentation

1/10/2019

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David Dunn from Smart Office Systems and the City of Nedlands Executive Director and the City's Information Analyst will presented:
Business Intelligence and Information Management using out of the box SharePoint and O365.
David spoke about the opportunities to manage business information and processes more effectively using Microsoft Office 365, Power BI and SharePoint-online.  

The City of Nedlands shared their real-life experience and their journey from paper-based processing and legacy record management - to online processing with automated workflows and business intelligence dashboards.  They will also outline the practical business benefits they achieved and share some of the challenges they encountered along the way.

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City of Sydney Tender

30/9/2019

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Unified Customer View - Customer Master Record Solution (CMRS) and Data Management Platform (DMP)
City of Sydney desires to improve our understanding and the way we communicate with  our customers and stakeholders.  Initially this will be by development of a trusted Customer Master Record Solution (CMRS), bringing together our disparate customer records.  This will allow us to make updates across all relevant systems, facilitating excellent customer service and streamlining internal processes. It is envisaged that the solution will be developed on a Data Management Platform (DMP), which should improve Data Quality and reinforce Data Governance.
Via an open Expression of Interest, companies will be invited to propose their capability and  solutions.  They will be evaluated by their proposals for inclusion in a subsequent paid engagement to demonstrate abilities, proof of concept and innovative value add.  During this engagement, companies will have the opportunity to better understand the problems, request additional information, and identify opportunities for unique value add.
Selection for a final contract award will be by evaluating the deliverables at the end of the engagement.
If you are interested in being involved in this upcoming Expression of Interest, please provide your contact details in this link by the 18th of October 2019 to be notified when this event opens.

Monica Barone
Chief Executive Officer.

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