CeRDIs 25th Anniversary
CeRDI commenced 25 years ago as the Centre for eCommerce and Communications. At that stage the Internet was just being rolled out to regional communities. This was the context for the Centre for eResearch and Digital Innovation being established.
The early years were very much focused on online portals, business websites, and digital skills activities. Since these early beginnings CeRDI has become more research intensive. This is reflected in the multi-disciplinary nature of the CeRDI team, and the various disciplines that our academic leads come from.
CeRDI 25-year anniversary video (5:23)
Today, we are collecting more data than we ever have at any other time on earth. But most of that data is invisible to us. So, the work that we do at CeRDI is that we are trying to get the private sector data and the public sector data together to give us the best amount of data that we can possibly use to make the best decisions. Better data to better decisions.
CeRDI commenced 25 years ago as the Centre for eCommerce and Communications. At that stage the Internet was just being rolled out to regional communities, so that was really the context for CeRDI being established. In our early years it was very much focused on online portal and business websites, and digital skills activities, and then we've become more research intensive that's reflected in the multi-disciplinary nature of the team and the various disciplines that our academic leads come from. Right-now we'd have about thirty major projects in progress. And those projects span a-number-of areas, but digital agriculture would be by far the largest area of focus. For example, say soils data, there are a lot of different custodians of soils data. Some might be held by the state government. Some might be held by private companies. And some might be held by farmers. And so federating data is an approach to bringing data together regardless of the system that it might be stored in.
Visit our interactive 25 years of CeRDI timeline.
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