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Sirca Young Researcher Workshop 4, 10-11 July: Call for Papers

05/03/2014 at 3:53 pm

Sirca is pleased to invite young researchers to submit a current research paper for possible inclusion in the Sirca YRW4 to be held in Sydney from Thursday 10th to Friday 11th July, 2014. Please submit papers to: callforpapers@sirca.org.au.

To qualify at least one author must be a young researcher; defined as a person currently engaged in PhD research or one whose PhD thesis was completed less than five years ago.

Deadline for Paper Submission: 30 April, 2014. All submissions will receive notification of outcome by 15 June, 2014.

Please see link for further information on the Young Researcher Workshop: Sirca YRW 4

Sirca Releases New Data Library!

17/02/2014 at 5:15 pm

SIRCA is pleased to announce the release of a newly designed Data Library, found within the SIRCA portal under the DL2 tab. This new layout presents a user friendly interface for intuitive and immediate use, provides users with descriptions of each of the datasets and enables useful search capabilities.

To move this new Data Library into production, the SIRCA Academic Portal will be unavailable between 9am-10am EST on Tuesday 18th February.

We look forward to your feedback on this new development!

Sirca and Sense-T Partnership in the News

22/01/2014 at 1:28 pm

Sirca’s recently announced partnership with Sense-T has hit the headlines again!

The Age has run an article on this partnership and the potential that some of the technologies developed out of this collaboration can have in other areas, which has also piqued interest from the World Bank.

Sense-T founding director Ros Harvey says they are building a unique data ecosystem that app developers, non-governmental organisations, governments and others can innovate on. “It’s not just the [sensor] data, it’s how you combine that with the smarts of user-friendly apps to help people make better decisions,” Harvey says.

Sirca CEO Mike Briers, on Sirca’s knowledge of big data systems, also added “There’s a unique capability we developed because we have to deal with high-frequency data to a discerning audience like investment bankers who don’t want the system to go down for a second,” Briers says.

Read the full article here.

Sirca Welcomes A New Member

15/01/2014 at 4:36 pm

Sirca is pleased to announce that the University of Otago has recently joined us to bring our Membership base to 38!

Founded in 1869, the University of Otago is New Zealand’s oldest University. The main campus of the University of Otago is located in the city of Dunedin with additional campuses in Christchurch and Wellington.

On behalf of the Sirca community we wish you a very warm welcome!

Sirca’s partnership with Tasmania’s Sense-T in The Australian

11/12/2013 at 12:12 pm

Sirca has recently partnered with Sense-T and the University of Tasmania to develop its big data platform. The partnership will look to establish Tasmania as a hub for world-class big data engineering and research, drawing in existing local technology businesses and enticing new ones.

The Australian has run an article on this partnership, with Sirca’s CEO Mike Briers saying “We were looking at, from a Sirca perspective, adjacent areas where we could exploit and deploy our big data capability into alternative spaces. We realised that there was just a great opportunity for us to partner with such an amazing, exciting project in Tassie.”

Read the full article here.

Channel 7 Sunrise TV story on Stand-up Working featuring SIRCA

22/11/2013 at 4:00 pm

Channel 7’s breakfast TV show Sunrise visited SIRCA recently for a story they are doing about stand-up working. The fact SIRCA offer stand-up desks, a stand-up breakfast bar and of course have stand up meetings and scrums, has caught their interest from a recent feature article by Melinda Ham which featured SIRCA published in this month’s CPA magazine InTheBlack.

Sunrise Producer Katie Mazzolo and the Channel Seven crew interviewed Mike, Paul and Chris and filmed staff in stand-up meetings and working at our stand up desks. The segment is aired on Tuesday morning’s show.

Watch the video here.

Katie Mazzolo, Producer, Sunrise and Channel 7 camera man visit SIRCA

Sirca Welcomes A New Member

12/11/2013 at 9:07 am

Sirca is pleased to announce that Victoria University of Wellington has recently joined us to bring our Membership base to 37!

Victoria University of Wellington has four campuses throughout Wellington, New Zealand.

On behalf of the Sirca community we wish you a very warm welcome!

Sirca Annual Survey Winner 2013

08/11/2013 at 2:55 pm

Sirca would like to thank everyone who completed our annual survey recently. The response was very insightful and we’re looking forward to working on some of the feedback over the coming months!

We are pleased to announce that Maria Strydom from Monash University has won the draw for an iPad Mini. Congratulations Maria we hope you enjoy it!

University of Melbourne Graduate Wins First National Medal for Tech Entrepreneurship

30/10/2013 at 11:44 am

Today SIRCA announced Hany Pham as the inaugural winner of the SIRCA-Tech23 University Medal for Technology Entrepreneurship. Hany is the Co-founder and CEO of Breezedocs (formerly OneTouch). This new national award is presented to the most outstanding new technology enterprise led by a current Australian University student or recent graduate.

Hany graduated from the University of Melbourne with a combined Law and Property and Construction degree in 2010 before establishing Breezdocs (formerly OneTouch) in 2011. Breezedocs provides automated document processing in the cloud services for the mortgage processing industry and has already attracted seed investment from Angel Investors and leverages Mr Pham’s hands on experience having previously run a national award winning mortgage broking business.

For the full press release please click here.

2012 Update to the Corporate Governance Database

22/10/2013 at 9:30 am

The 2012 update to the Corporate Governance Database is now available via the Sirca Member Portal.

The latest edition contains Corporate Governance information for ASX listed companies with balance sheet dates to December 2012. Now included are records for foreign incorporated companies with primary listing on ASX and Australia incorporated companies reporting in foreign currencies.

Members are advised to pay close attention to the product documentation located via the Help button. If anyone requires assistance please be sure to lodge your enquiry via the Helpdesk function in the Member Portal.