Homelessness in Australia, and New South Wales more specifically, are increasing. What is alarming is the way that young people are disproportionately represented in these statistics. Between 2006 and 2016, homelessness among 19-24 years olds in New South Wales...
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was an American nun, educator and pioneer in computer science. She was involved in the development of the BASIC computer programming language and was the first American woman to earn a PhD in computer science. Keller entered the Sisters of...
Since 2018, we’ve been working closely with our ambitious client New Horizons to launch unboxd, the world’s first Wellbeing Enterprise Lab. The bold and urgent mission of the lab is to incubate and accelerate startups and businesses focused on enhancing people’s...
Over the last few weeks youth around the world have been well and truly stepping up to the plate: making their voices heard and making a visceral call to older generations to consider their future. Whether it was the climate change demonstrations, or Eggboi’s one-man...
Karen Spӓrck Jones was a British computer scientist who specialised in natural language processing and information retrieval. Her work on information retrieval is still used today and provides the foundation for how search engines supply us with relevant information....
New Handbook outlines a practical 4-hour workshop to get your business from identifying its purpose to determining the priorities for action. Purpose-driven organisations can create positive value that is far greater than the sum of their parts; the potential to...
New Handbook provides a guide as to how your business can survive – and thrive – through disruption. Whilst most organisations are aware that automation is occurring, only 44% of businesses believe they are adequately prepared to deal with that disruption...
In a recent video published by The Guardian, author of Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson asks: “Where are the women in the brave new world that’s being designed for us?” It’s a pertinent question in International Women’s Month, especially when we...
Over the past few weeks the Disruptors have been in the thick of events, for International Women’s Day, for startup accelerators, for small business and for the Sydney Design Festival. What’s been interesting is that without our having to orchestrate it, all events...
Joan Ball was an online dating pioneer who created the first computer dating service in 1964. Although the credit often goes to Harvard’s ‘Operation Match’ service, Ball’s matching service was operational and in use a whole year before ‘Operation Match’ started...
