Tag: Sandy Plunkett

Summer reading: An ultimate list

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Ho Ho Ho and Merry Christmas to all fellow travellers and happy campers! May you all get the holiday break you deserve after a hilarious and ridiculously busy 2017....

Sandy Plunkett on tech & culture

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Sandy Plunkett has had several careers in the tech industry. I first met her in the very early 1990s when she was a reporter covering the technology beat for...

Innovation in a handout culture

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When economists Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster released a study in 2015 arguing Australia was a plutocracy where our richest amass their wealth by political connections rather than innovative...

Beware the wolves of Silicon Valley

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The call from a Silicon Valley colleague a year ago led with the news his all-male venture capital firm was courting a female partner. He thought, correctly, that I...

Tech culture here is just as bad

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A number of prominent women in the Australian tech and startup communities have spoken out about the discrimination, sexism and harassment they regularly encounter in the sector. The tech,...

2030 plan must finally get serious

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Australia has some alarmingly poor innovation performance indicators and nailing down the methods for improving them will lead to some sharp debate as Innovation Science Australia constructs its strategic...

ISA: Where are all the gazelles?

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Australia ranks stone motherless last in one of the most critical measures listed in the Innovation and Science Australia report on how this country fares in creating wealth from...

Data61 cranks global talent drive

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The uneasy relationship between the science and technology communities in the US and the Trump Administration – particularly over immigration – presents a huge opportunity for Australia to aggressively...

Summer reading: A lazy book list

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Ho, Ho, Ho, you beautiful people. We are readying the car for an insanely long road-trip through the deserts of the ‘real Australia’ and have been gathering all the...