Global Data & Digital Alliance
Purpose
The DigiSAS Lab for Data & Digital (University of Technology Sydney), in collaboration with its core partners Fintech AI Innovation Consortium (University of New South Wales), and Applied AI Centre (Macquarie University), and associate Australian and International Universities established the Global Data & Digital Alliance (GDDA). The GDDA brings together relevant global expertise from Academia, Government, and Industry to undertake cutting-edge applied research and develop high-tech exceptionally skilled data and digital workforce.
Our Focus
The Alliance will focus on addressing the following major challenges to government, industry, and society:
- How to co-design and deploy, trusted and secure, data & digital architectures for inclusive, ethical, and responsible, use of AI/GAI systems and services for all people and business?
- How to evaluate the impact of data and digital on government, industry, and society?
- How to build and evolve data and digital security and privacy in the context of AI/GAI?
- How to manage and govern connected and federated data and digital assets?
- How to enable observability and semantic lineage in complex data and digital ecosystems?
- How to develop and evolve data and digital profession for the future adaptive workforce?
Core Partners
GDDA Coordinator
Dr. Madhushi Bandara (UTS)
GDDA Accociates
| AU/NZ | – Professor Ghassan Beydoun, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia – Distinguished Professor Fang Chen, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia – Professor Daniel Catchpoole, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia – Professor Natalia Nikolova, , University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia – Professor Ali Babar, University of Adelaide (UoA), Australia – Professor Liming Zhu, CSIRO’s Data61, Australia – Distinguished Professor Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong (UoW), Australia |
| EU/UK | – Professor Henderik A. Proper, Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria – Professor Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland – Professor Dennis Kundisch, Paderborn University, Germany – Professor Boualem Benatallah, Dublin City University, Ireland |
| USA/Canada | – Professor Ophir Frieder, CyberSmart Center, USA – Professor Jarek Nabrzyski, CyberSmart Center, USA – Professor Sehl Mellouli, Université Laval, Canada – Distinguished Professor France Belanger, Virginia Tech, USA |
| Asia |
Key Capabilities of GDDA
- Data & Digital Architecture & Engineering
- Data & Digital Governance, Privacy & Security
- Trusted AI/GAI enabled Processes, Systems & Solutions
Sectors
| Digital Banking | Digital Government | Digital Health | Digital Engineering | SMEs & Start-ups |
MORE INFORMATION
For further information, please contact:
Professor Asif Gill
Director DigiSAS Lab, University of Technology Sydney (Lead Site)
Email: Asif.Gill@UTS.EDU.AU | Phone: +61 449 726 059
SPONSORSHIP
The GDDA brings together national and international research labs, centres, experts, and capabilities with a proven track of success via impact driven research & innovation-based solution and training delivery in data and digital across various disciplines: computer science, data science, decision science, information science, information systems and social science. Public and private sector organisations are invited to join GDDA as Sponsored Members. The sponsor membership fee is as follows.
- Full Year: AUD $50,000
- Half Year: AUD $25,000
- Top-ups: AUD $10,000
- Non-profits, start-ups, and small businesses may be invited to join at reduced fee, please contact us to discuss your organization and project.
The sponsorship fee will be used to recruit and support researchers such as PhD (3.5 Years), Master by Research (2 Years) and Honors (1 Year), research internships (3-6 months) and relevant research outputs for the sponsors. These researchers will undertake a research project relevant to the sponsoring member organisations under the supervision of academic advisors.
For more specific information, please contact the relevant core or associate partners to discuss your organization, project details, letter of intent and research agreement to sponsor the research.
BENEFITS
The partnership and sponsorship will provide following benefits and return on investment to sponsors.
- Affordable access to world-class expertise to address the complex data and digital issues and maximise opportunities for cost-effective innovative solutions with nominal overheads.
- Opportunity to team-up and collaborate with world-class research providers for bidding and participating in government grants and related programs including relevant R&D tax rebates (if applicable).
- Collaboration on data and digital challenges of mutual interest.
- Recruitment and workforce development opportunities, including opportunities to work collaboratively with students and researchers who are prospects for employment.
- Networking and collaboration with peers from a range of organisations in diverse sectors and regions to develop new and existing research and business partnerships.
- Participation in professional development workshops, symposiums, and exchange programs.
- Interactions and knowledge exchange with private organisations, government agencies andregulators to shape policies and practices.
- Input into the GDDA’s research direction, priorities, and selection of projects/researchers for funding/ sponsorship.
- Early access to new ideas, publications, and outcomes.
Sponsors:
