COMMITTEE
Chairman: Deb Byron
Vice-Chairman: David Butterworth
Committee members: Phil Adcock, Jon Allen, Tim Craine, Asanka DeSilva, David Dorricot, Chris Gledhill, Chris Hall, Chris Hobbs, Paul Jarvis, Claire Milne, Bill Mummery, Tony Verrall
Committee meetings are held monthly - first Wednesday of each month at 08.00
PRIORITIES 2008/09
- e-Gaming: Review e-gaming organisational structure to ensure all working to common strategy, goals, targets and objectives
- e-Money: Introduce new e-money legislation to establish IoM as a leading location for reputable e-money providers
- e-Business : Identify which new niche sectors IoM will pro-actively attack in order to diversify the e-business offering
- Recruit additional specialist business development resources with segment expertise to accelerate growth of new high quality inward investment
- Produce annual GNP statistics which are aligned with the Economy 2014 sector definitions
- Implement a simple graduate portal/database to allow IoM Govt funded graduates to be kept up to date on IoM developments and future job opportunities
- ICT apprenticeships
- Promotion of IT as an exciting career choice to children in secondary education
- Work in partnership with ISD to help review, prioritise, test and communicate all e-Government developments targeted at the business community
- Lobby Government to create one marketing and business development department for e-business
- Introduction of volume-based discounts on electricity usage tariffs for large customers with usage above an agreed threshold
- MEA cable to be managed in line with IoM Govt communications policy