Australian Society for Progress & Wellbeing
Launched at NSW Parliament House at the GAP 5th Annual Growth Summit, the Society is a member-based organisation through which like-minded people can champion the concepts of progress and wellbeing. It provides a forum where key stakeholders can engage, influence and advocate change with the aim of ensuring concepts of progress and wellbeing are integral to the thinking and decision making of individuals, communities, business and governments. For more information about the Society and how to become a member, please visit its website at www.aspw.asn.au.
 

GAP "Second Track" Taskforces 2007-2015
GAP taskforces are underpinned by a process called the "Second Track". It streamlines previously ad-hoc mechanisms for stakeholder engagement in government consultation and decision making. A "Second Track" Process brings together creative thinkers from relevant sectors - government, business, academia, non-government organisations and consumer groups - with a likeminded approach to resolving the issues positively and driving practical outcomes. Working collaboratively, these groups identify problems, initiate discussions, prepare white papers, develop solutions and oversee their implementation. GAP has pioneered and effectively used the "Second Track" Process in areas of knowledge capital, participative democracy, telecommunications regulation, urban water pricing, low carbon economy, social investment, health policy, evidence-based medicine, pharmacogenomics and others. For more information, visit the GAP website.

April 2012
NSW Strata Laws Online Consultation
With the support of NSW Fair Trading, GAP facilitated a highly successful online consultation on strata laws from 15 December 2011 to 29 February 2012. Hosted on Open Forum, the consultation saw 1,230 individual comments on four key questions and 25 blogs. Overall, almost 600 suggestions for procedural change or law reform were put forward by participants. The most cited issues concerned the procedures and standards of governance in strata, antisocial behaviour, pets, smoking and parking. GAP's final report on the consultation was used by NSW Fair Trading to further progress its strata legislation reforms. A final bill on strata title law reform which contains some of the key recommendations from GAP's community consultation is expected to be introduced to Parliament. If passed, the proposed legislation represents the most significant social reform in strata since 1961.
 

November 2011
National Standing Committee on Cloud Computing (NSCCC)
The Committee was established in response to one of the key recommendations of the 2011 GAP Taskforce on Cloud Computing. Comprised of federal and state government agencies, industry leaders, the research community and advocacy groups, all represented at a senior executive level, NSCCC meets three times a year. It seeks to identify national and global opportunities for Australia arising from the adoption of Cloud computing, including implications for businesses and consumers. It also serves as an advisory group to all levels of government. In 2012, The Committee consulted the Australian Government on the development of the first National Cloud Computing Strategy, launched at CEBIT on 29 May 2013. The Strategy is an integral part of the Digital Economy White Paper, released by the Australian Government at the Digital Productivity Conference in Brisbane on 13-14 June 2013.

October2011
International Complex Project Management Taskforce
GAP, in collaboration with the International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM), established this Task Force in 2010 to assist in the development of an international report on complex project management. Members of the Taskforce included eminent representatives from 35 of the world's most forward-thinking organisations. The outcome was the publication of a tiered set of documents "Complex Project Management - Global Perspectives and the Strategic Agenda to 2025", comprising a Report and a Compendium of Working Papers created to stimulate debate and encourage stakeholder investment into a dedicated CPM research centre. This work led to the development of a proposal for a CRC for Managing Complex Projects and Programs led by ICCPM and involving the Queensland University of Technology, Sydney University, University of Technology Sydney and University of Adelaide, with other institutions offering their skills in engineering and systems.
 

September 2010
National Economic Review: Australia's Annual Growth Summit
The Summit featured keynote addresses by the Hon. Wayne Swan MP, Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, Australian Government; the Hon. Eric Roozendaal MLC, Treasurer, Minister for State & Regional Development, Minister for Ports & Waterways, Minister for the Illawarra, Special Minister of State, NSW Government; and by international guest speaker Mr Jonathan Coppel, Economic Counsellor to the Secretary General of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). On 17 September 2011, the Sydney Morning Herald, Herald Sun, The Australian, CIO Magazine, ComputerWorld, SkyNews, the Australian Financial Review and other media reported on Treasurer Swan's keynote speech at the Summit's opening dinner. A full transcript of the speech can be reviewed at the Treasury Ministers Portal. In an interview with The Australian, the Summit's keynote speaker Jonathan Coppel said Australia needed to address its "low productivity performance", which was well below the level of the top OECD nations, and identified the lack of spending on infrastructure as one of the reasons behind Australia's fall-off in productivity. <<