Economic and Political Outlook 2021
Check out CEDA's new report featuring insights from economists and political commentators on the year ahead.
CEDA’s partnerships and collaborations deliver targeted campaigns on key issues to build consensus on practical policy solutions. By bringing together a range of voices with diverse perspectives and expertise we can achieve greater impact.
Australia is facing many long standing ‘wicked’ problems, as well as complex emerging issues. Solutions are unlikely to be developed in isolation or by one sector. CEDA - with its broad cross-sector members and firm reputation for independence - is uniquely positioned to facilitate and drive impactful partnerships and collaborations.
Through our partnerships and collaborations CEDA draws on existing knowledge and expertise and works with organisations, academic institutions and individual experts in a variety of formats to overcome barriers to policy change.
In 2021, CEDA's work in this space is focused on:
- Justice system reform, in particular reducing female rates of incarceration and recidivism;
- Improving workforce participation;
- Public interest technology, in alignment with our research and policy work; and
- Our UN Sustainable Development Goals network, formed in 2020 to progress and build best practice use.
BENEFITS OF COLLABORATING WITH CEDA
Working together we achieve greater impact on important issues than we would otherwise be able to achieve individually.
Collaborating with CEDA enables your organisation to:
- Contribute to driving the conversation on the issues affecting the nation;
- Exemplify your organisation and people’s knowledge and expertise; and
- Align with CEDA, a known and trusted independent think tank.
Current collaborations and programs of work
CEDA’s Public Interest Technology program focuses on how emerging technologies can be designed, developed and used in the public interest.
How we advance and adopt technology and the use of data will fundamentally shape Australia’s economic and social development. Data and emerging technologies, used wisely and in the public interest, have the potential to deliver significant benefits.
Through this program of work CEDA brings together technologists, policy makers and business to further development, take-up and use of technology and data in a way that enables a dynamic economy and maximises individual and community choice, opportunity and wellbeing. This complements and supports work being undertaken as part of CEDA's 2021 research and policy agenda.
Following the inaugural CEDA PIT forum held in 2020, CEDA is looking to lead a national discussion in 2021 on what public interest technology means in practice and how to embed this approach to emerging tech.
Drawing on insights from the forum, our priorities include: building awareness of the importance of digital ethics and ethics in practice, regulation and regulatory frameworks for emerging tech, demystifying tech, building tech and public interest awareness and capability.
Foundation Partners
CEDA would like to thank Google, IBM and KPMG who have come on board as PIT Foundation Partners to help facilitate, guide and drive CEDA’s program of work.
PIT Member Advisory Committee
CEDA has brought together technologists, policy makers and business leaders to discuss how manage new technologies and foster collaborative approaches to maximising the benefits of new tech for individuals and the community.
Working with CEDA, the PIT Member Advisory Committee (MAC) is guiding a program of work to drive ideas, information sharing and policy solutions.
PIT Member Advisory Committee:
- Feyi Akindoyeni, Partner, Newgate Australia
- Melinda Cilento, Chief Executive, CEDA
- Kaaren Koomen AM, Director, Governmental and Regulatory Affairs, IBM
- Simon Goodrich, Founder and Managing Director, Portable
- Nyk Loates, Director, KPMG Futures, Innovation, Solutions and Ventures
- Alex Lynch, Public Policy and Government Affairs Manager, Google Australia
- Sam Nickless, Partner, Gilbert + Tobin
- Andrew Stevens, Chairman, Innovation and Science Australia
- Prof. Mal Thatcher, Professor of Digital Practice, Queensland University of Technology
- Prof. Glenn Wightwick, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Innovation and Enterprise), University of Technology, Sydney
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CEDA’s Sustainable Development Goals Network enables our members to have greater impact through facilitating understanding and use of the existing SDG framework.
Established by the United Nations, the Sustainable Development Goals are described as the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, addressing global challenges including poverty, inequality, climate change and justice*. The SDGs were adopted in 2015 and implemented in 2016.
The CEDA SDG network:
- Provides opportunities for CEDA members to be informed and educated on implementing, progressing or finetuning their organisations experience with SDGs, led by CEDA members already recognised as SDG aligned organisations;
- Delivers best practice around SDG adoption, implementation, impact and reporting; and
- Creates the foundations for CEDA members to lead and collaborate in the uptake of long-term sustainable development within their organisations, stakeholders and industry.
* Take Action for the Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations, United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, viewed 8 December 2020