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ZIG/ZAG: UNB - European Commission [EC] "Blockchains for Social Good [BSG]"
	 Challenge - DRAFT MINUTES W 10 APR 2019 FOR MTG B4 T 09 APR 2019

Date:		Tue 09 Apr 2019		Time:17:30 - 18:30

Venue:		Balgowlah RSL		Contact: Stephen GOULD
		30 Ethel Street		SAN Projects Co-ordinator
		BALGOWLAH 2092		M:{61}(4)1600-9468

			INVITEES & ATTENDEES

Peter AXTENS	[PMA] Chr	Y	Janece WILLS	[JPW]		E
Gloria OMODEI	[GMO]		Y	Carline DUFFY	[CJD]		Y
Jan NEILSEN	[JNN]		Y	Nick RIDDELL 	[NHR]		Y
Tim CHENKO	[TMC]		E	Stephen GOULD	[SGG] Sec	Y
Kathy REID 	[KCR]		Y	Any On-line Contacts

			     AGENDA

	A  17:30-18:00 - Confirm 4th quantum 13.30-14:30 Review the Australian Government "Aus Digital Economy - Dec 2018"
	B  18:00-18:15 - Review Overseas Cryptocurrency Research 
	C  18:10-18:25 - Update on "Blockchain" initiatives
	D  18:25-18:30 - Any other business - OIC web hosting by Network Solutions for 12-mths
	W  Action Items
	Z  Next Meeting	Tue 07 May 2019		17:30 - 18:30

A  17:30-18:00 - CONFIRM 4TH QUANTUM 13.30-14:30 ON-LINE TRAINING PROGRAM

A major part of the EC-BSG project will be to assist potential Project Partners to understand 
the key project issues hence the EC-BSG Committee is preparing an "On-line Introduction to 
understanding eCommerce, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency issues"

At the last meeting the Chairman reviewed the issues of concerns about the Standards bodies 
involved with eBusiness Standards and the how a great many of the Computer and Information
Technology organisations, banks and universities had joined the 2019 Hyperledger "Linux Foundation 
and Open Source Software project for Blockchain Applications"

As this section involves the published strategy for "The Australian Digital Economy - Dec 2018" it is 
worth considering the other changes at Standards Australia after the decision in 2003 to form Standards 
Australia International [SAI] Global

The 4th Quantum covers the following topics:

	a The Australian Government role in promoting EDI for the Information Economy
	b Are Companies receiving long-term royalties from Standards Australia ?
	c Australia's strategy for "The Australian Digital Economy - Dec 2018

a  THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT ROLE IN PROMOTING EDI FOR THE INFORMATION ECONOMY

This is the evidence that between 2001 and 2003 the Federal Government Strategy for the "National
Office for the Information Economy [NOIE]" was redirected

On Fri 28 Sep 2001 John GRANT Chief General Manager Government On-line of the Federal 
Government National Office of the Information Economy [NOIE] gave a Presentation to OIC Members 
on "The Government On-line Strategy"

On Wed 24 Oct 2001 Patrick CALLIONI Chief General Manager Information Economy of the Federal 
Government National Office of the Information Economy [NOIE] gave a Presentation to OIC Members 
on "The Information Economy - what is it ?"

These two presentations from key Federal Government General Managers gave OIC Members an 
insight into the Australian Federal Government On-line Strategy at the time

However by 2003 Standards Australia was changing and was no longer an Association but had
become a Limited Company

Mark BEZZINA as the Director of Business Standards at Standards Australia received a $ 200,000 
Federal Government ITOL Grant to develop the "BizDex" invoicing system for the Australian Wheat 
Board [AWB] Grain exports

IBM, Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, SAP and several small Australian businesses like Red Wahoo
and TEDIS were members of the BizDex Consortium

It has never been explained why 4 of the largest computer companies in the world with turnovers and 
profits of US $ Billions should receive an Australian Federal Government Grant

On 10 Jan 2004 the ebXML Forum announced "BizDex The Australian Government has combined 
with standards authorities and technology vendors to build a national e-business network for small 
companies"

"According to Steve CAPELL of Red Wahoo, one of the companies building BizDex, the registry 
metadata will generate Collaboration Protocol Agreements [CPAs] rather than combining two 
Collaboration Protocol Profiles [CPPs] as recommended in the ebXML specifications"

In 2005 it transpired that AWB was guilty of false invoicing in the "Oil for Food" scandal with Iraq 
yet no-one has been held responsible for the development of the fraudulent invoicing system

In 2006 BixDex was renamed Govdex

"Bizdex [11] and Govdex in Australia are projects to facilitate structured communication among 
companies and with Governmental services, respectively. 

The projects concentrate on the architecture for registering and employing models, rather than on the 
user interfaces and their flexibility"
Ref p293 "Structured communication for dynamic business" University of Groningen 2013

b  ARE COMPANIES RECEIVING LONG-TYERM ROYALTIES FROM STANDARDS AUSTRALIA ?

On 22 Jul 1997 Stewart FIST published an article in the Australian "Standards compromised by self-
interest, lack of scrutiny"

Also in 2004 Red Wahoo claimed it was the author of the Australian "Name & Address XML 
Schema AS 4590" as well as being the Chair of the UN/CEFACT DCSS Working Group and the Lead 
Architect of the UML Modelling Tool and a key member of OASIS

It was subsequently revealed in Oct 2006 that both the Australian "Name and Address XML Standard 
AS4590" and UN/EDIFACT ISO 9735 allowed both a Simple Address and Complex Address in the 
eBusiness standard

This means every EDI message has to be checked to see what type of message s being sent and 
whether the simple or complex address is used

If there is a simple address at some stage this has to be converted to the complex address format so 
that the address can be stored in an XML Database

It was subsequently revealed that Red Wahoo not only received Royalties from Standards Australia 
for its work developing the Australian  "Name and Address XML Standard AS4590"  but also gave 
presentations world-wide on behalf of the Australian Government  on "E-Government Interoperability 
Framework" in Jun 2008 to the Semantic Interoperability Centre Europe [SEMIC] in Brussels Europe

Slide 4 of this presentation reveals the number of Australian Federal Government projects on which 
Steve CAPELL of Red Wahoo worked

Slide 9 names the different eStandards with which Steve CAPELL is involved including

A   AS4590 - Australian eName and eAddress Standard with 2 different addresses
B   EDIFACT - ISO 9735 - eStandard for Administration, Commerce and Transport
C  LandXML - for Land Title electronic lodgements - This was finalised in Jul 2018
D  IFRS - International Financial Reporting Standards - all Councils and RSLs now have to use IFRS
E  HL7 - Health Level 7 software - Here the address is only referred to as address with no details

In 2008 the NEHTA ICT Advisory Committee published 8 different "candidate standards" for software 
developers to use for eHealth Applications 

On 31 Oct 2009 Standards Australia announced its new Business Model

c  AUSTRALIA'S STRATEGY FOR  "AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL ECONOMY - DEC 2018"

On 19 Dec 2018 Justin HENDRY published an article "Australia finally gets a new digital economy 
strategy"

This announcement "Highlights four areas to focus efforts"

"Those four areas are: 

	1	people, 
	2	services, 
	3	digital assets and 
	4	the enabling environment

each of which is accompanied by opportunities and areas for further improvement."

"It replaces the existing digital economy strategy, which was last revised in May 2016 after first being 
released by the then Department of Communications in May 2011.

There is similarly a need for businesses, particularly small businesses, to upgrade underpinning 
technology, including upgrading to modern cloud-based business solutions and embracing emerging 
technologies such as AI (Artificial Intelligence) , Blockchain and IoT (Internet of Things)as they 
evolve.

In 2015 OIC members reviewed the NSW ICT Strategy 2015-2020 as part of the National Digital 
Economy Strategy [NDES] released in 2011

B  18:00-18:15 - REVIEW OVERSEAS CRYPTOCURRENCY RESEARCH

The Meeting reviewed these "Cryptocurrency" articles

a 2018/02/15 Vic Government paper on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain explained
b 2019/03/31 Massive Bitcoin Exchange Hack Exposes Bithumb's Arrogant Disregard of Security
c 2019/03/31 Tezos Price Surges 57% in Days as Coinbase Fuels Another Crypto Rally

c 2019/03/31 Tezos Price Surges 57% in Days as Coinbase Fuels Another Crypto Rally

The full article can be reviewed here

b 2019/03/31 Massive Bitcoin Exchange Hack Exposes Bithumb's Arrogant Disregard of Security

The full article can be reviewed here

a 2018/02/15 Vic Government paper on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain explained

The full article can be reviewed here

C  18:10-18:25 - UPDATE ON "BLOCKCHAIN" INITIATIVES

a 2019/04/02 1st Blockchain, Robotics and AI for Networking Security Conference 
b 2019/04/08 1st International Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM 2019)
c 2019/04/12 Workshop on Managing and Managed by Blockchain (Man2Block) 

c 2019/04/12 Workshop on Managing and Managed by Blockchain (Man2Block)

The full article can be reviewed here

b 2019/04/08 1st International Workshop on Blockchain and Data Management (BlockDM 2019)

The full article can be reviewed here

a 2019/04/02 1st Blockchain, Robotics and AI for Networking Security Conference

The full article can be reviewed here

D   18:25-18:30 - ANY OTHER BUSINESS

SGG reported that "Network Solutions" has been appointed as the OIC Internet Service Provider 
[ISP] for the next 12-months while further details about the 3-year contract paid for in 2017 were investigated

ACTION ITEMS		ACTION				WHO	FOR	WHEN		

1	Notice On-line Minutes			SGG	All	by H 2019/04/11

2	Review Australia Standards & SAI Global issues	All	by F 2019/04/12

3	Report "Blockchain" & "Hyperledger" articles	OMG	All	On-going

NEXT MEETING

Date:	Tue 07 May 2019		Time:	17:30 - 18:30

Venue:	Balgowlah RSL	 	E: 
	30 Ethel St		F:{61}(2)
	SEAFORTH	2092	P:{61}(2)9949-5477

Stephen GOULD
Projects Co-ordinator
SUSTAINABILITY ACTION NETWORK
 
B: PO Box 517 Neutral Bay Junction NSW 2089
E: ehn.1a3posgg@gmail.com
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