director

dale spender has been a member of many advisory boards in the government and private sector. She has served on many committees, including the Queensland Government Communications and Information Advisory Board, and Enabling Queensland, as well as the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Australian Interactive Multimedia Industry Association (AIMIA). She is a founding member of the committee of the Second Chance Programme Fundraising Group (inc) for homeless women.

For nine years she was a director of Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) and for two years (2002- 2004) she was the chair.

COMPANIES

DIGITIAL STYLE P/L
dale spender is the principal director of digital style p/l. It is a research/ presentation and consulting company, which has specialised in the areas of new technology and - 'learning and earning'. As the principal director she draws on the work of the company, and writes reports, gives keynote addresses, undertakes workshops etc on an international basis.

AHOOT (AHead Of Our Time) p/l
dale spender is the current chair of AHOOT / Robert Sanders (CEO) - 
AHOOT specialises in information on the new wealth.
It assists businesses, governments, and educational institutions etc., to audit their IP, to assess its value, and to manage it as an asset. And to change the culture to reflect new wealth practices and priorities.

AHOOT also plays an educational role in making individuals and organizations more aware of the way this new wealth works by delivering its online guidelines in the form of PoP IP. (How many Picassos do you have on your PC? Are they yours? Should they be? What are they worth?) Available as Guidelines, Reports, Keynote Addresses, Consultancy Briefs, Audits, Workshops, Videos etc

PoP IP
PoP IP works on the principle that IP is now everybody's business and it brings alive a new subject which in popular terms covers everything from -- 'IP - who made it up?' -- to FTA agreements (given that IP formed more than 50% of the basis of the US-Australian FTA).

Its savvy 'pick'n'play' format (take what you want/ need) can be used by young and old, by individuals or groups, by those who want to find out more about the new wealth, and those who think they know their IP.

Units include 'Mickey Mouse Laws', 'Open Source - Open Mind', 'Creative Commons' and 'Copyleft' as well as a major section Plagiarism (the obsessions with who said it first) and Piracy (how the Recording Industry stole the word piracy).