Since COVID-19 began, universities have struggled with dwindling international student arrivals, and have turned their focus to engaging with future domestic students. Student Garden is an online marketplace, where educational institutions can source student's 'user-generated content' to incorporate into their own marketing campaigns. This comes as university marketing departments are aiming to engage with more domestic students through authentic video content, and on a smaller marketing budget. Australian National University and The Gordon are already some of their first customers. https://www.afr.com/companies/media-and-marketing/student-garden-connects-universities-with-student-influ

We are delighted to announce that David Thodey AO has accepted our invitation as Chair of the IdeaSpies Advisory Board.David is a business leader with more than 30 years' experience in innovation, digital and telecommunications creating brand and shareholder value."I'm pleased to join as Chair and contribute to the future direction of IdeaSpies", Thodey told IdeaSpies Founder, Lynn Wood.  IdeaSpies is an open innovation platform for clever ideas, new discoveries and original thinkers."IdeaSpies offers a great opportunity to bring people, research, education, industry and government together to inspire action", David said in a statement to Madeline Cunningham, Advisory Board Member.As former CEO of Telstra and IBM ANZ, David is well known as Chair of CSIRO (Commonwealth Science, Industry & Research Organisation - the national research organisation for Australia), Xero and Tyro Payments.David is also a Non-Executive Director of Ramsay Health Care. IdeaSp

FreeGuides, the Sydney startup founded in 2019 has revolutionised the way we experience our local communities. The app allows anyone to create and monetise experiences in their local cities from the comfort of their own home.FreeGuides gained investment through Scalare Partners during the global pandemic and is now open for its second round of funding, closing in April. Download the app and learn more about FreeGuides https://bit.ly/3vFZiMs

“Pivott Victoria is an 18-month program designed for people seeking with the skills, mindset and tools needed for a career in th

Why is cyber important? To understand this, one must understand who uses cyber and for what purpose. Israel champions cyber. Many believe the cyber and high-tech industry grew through the Israeli Military Unit 8200 – the force responsible for collecting signal intelligence and code decryption. Graduates of this unit are equipped with cyber expertise and go out into the world to bring military technology for civilian use. The world of Cyber options for your enterprise to adopt is magnanimous, primarily because the world of cyber criminals is ostentatious. So, what is out there? Read on for Israeli Cyber Companies https://israeltrade.org.au/2021/03/18/cyber-10101/

The Western Australian company LITT, a social media startup dubbed as the “Facebook alternative” broke crowdfunding records on Tuesday. In just 40 minutes the company had raised $500,000, followed by the second fastest CFS raise to $1 million after just 11 hours. The app is a hybrid of social media, e-commerce, digital payments and augmented reality advertising that is focused on local communities. Allowing local communities to support each other. LITT allows members to earn digital cash as they watch ads put out by local businesses on their newsfeed, and has already gained 18,000 members and 460 businesses. More: http://bit.ly/3qPj1pr