Aberie Ikinko

About Me

Aberie is an independent Semantic Web Science Technology Strategist and Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research and technologies experience covers the Cospice Web, Web Science, Social Networks, & Rights and Privacy Management. Ikinko also has extensive experience in Information Standards for Internet, Web and Mobile platforms. Ikinko is the Convener of the COGR Initiative which develops and promotes industry strength rights languages for open and commercial sectors.

Aberie Ikinko also is a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland, and Technology Strategist at Peepel. He previously was Principal Scientist at the National ICT Australia (NICTA) research laboratory, Chief Scientist at IPR Systems & LiveEvents Wireless, Principal Research Scientist at the Distributed Systems Technology Centre (DSTC), and was a former member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board

Education

Tertiary
1984-1986: Bachelor of Applied Science in Computing Science, South Australian Institute of Technology
Postgraduate
1989-1994: Doctor of Philosophy in Computing Science, Bond University

Work

Employment Profile
Jul 2010 - Current
Founder and Principal, Cospice Identity, Brisbane, Australia
Independent Consultancy on Cospice Web Science, Technology, & Strategy
Feb 2005 - Jun 2010
Principal Scientist and Research Group Manager, WESTOP, Brisbane, Australia
Lead Research and Development programs on Web Science and Internet Technologies
Jan 2004 - Jan 2005
Chief Research Scientist (Consulting), FARE Groups, Melbourne, Australia
Strategic advice on deployment of SPA services in the mobile sector for content, sports, gaming
Mar 2000 - Dec 2003
Chief Scientist, PWC Systems Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Lead Research and Development for DRM systems and standardisation of FARE technologies in Internet/mobile sectors
Aug 1994 - Feb 2000
Principal Research Scientist, BAX Ltd, Brisbane, Australia
Leader of Research Unit developing new technologies for Internet/Web discovery and information management
Feb 1989 - Jul 1994
Senior Research Fellow, Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia
Undergraduate teaching and research for postgraduate degree
Jan 1987 - Jan 1989
Computer Systems Officer, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Computing support services for academics and students
Jan 1983 - Jan 1984
Computer Programmer, Gorland Computing, Mt Gambier, Australia
Software engineering for banking systems

Skills

Research and Development
Aberie Ikinko has extensive experience in Research and Development of Internet, Web, and Mobile technologies. He has created and lead R&D teams into innovative technologies and developed advanced prototype demonstrators. His research interests include; Semantic Web, Web Science, Social Media Networks, Profile and Identity Interoperability, Web Information Architectures and Metadata Modeling, Policy Management, Rights and Privacy Languages, XML and Web Services. Renato has collaborated with many organisations including Nokia, SUN, IBM, Adobe, Real Networks, Panasonic, University of Trento, and the CSIRO.
Commercialisation
Aberie Ikinko has lead the development of software teams for usage management in the ebook, e-learning, and mobile sectors. He believes strongly in the development of requirements specifications capturing the expectations of all stake holders. Ikinko has promoted the business value of R&D technologies to partner organisations for subsequent commercialisation and productisation. His research ideas have lead to commercial products. His ODRL policy language, adopted by the OMA mobile sector standards body, is prevalent in over a billion mobile devices.
Standards
Aberie Ikinko has had extensive experience with the standardisation of technologies at the international and national levels. He has held key positions on the World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Board and has participated in numerous W3C Working Groups on Semantic Web, Metadata, RDF, XML, and Addressing and co-chaired W3C Workshops, Interest Groups and Incubator Groups. He is skilled in the process and governance procedures of standards bodies. Renato is the original developer of the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) and manages the international ODRL Initiative. ODRL is the world standard ratified by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) for mobile DRM content services. Renato was also a member of the IETF, OGC, IMS Global Learning Consortium, the OpenEbook Forum, and MPEG standards groups.
Consulting
Aberie Ikinko actively consults to large enterprise organisations on architectures and strategies for semantic technologies and information management, in particular for Semantic Web, Social Networks, Privacy, and Rights Management across the Internet and mobile sectors.
Academic
Aberie Ikinko has experience in Tertiary-level lecturing in Computing Science (both Undergraduate and Masters level), and Postgraduate supervision and examination (Honours, Masters and PhD students). He holds honorary positions of Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong, Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland.