Mr Gerald (Gerry) White

Mr Gerald (Gerry) White
Dip. T., Adv. Dip. T.(distinction), B. Ed., M. Ed., MACS, FACE

Gerry White is currently Chief Executive Officer of education.au limited which (http://www.educationau.edu.au ), is a company limited by guarantee and owned by the Australian education and training Ministers. The business of the company is to build and manage national education networks supported by distributed online information services for schools, vocational education and training and universities. The company does this through the use of collaborative, national processes utilising information and communications technologies, and through the formation of international alliances with similar government nationally sponsored organisations

Gerry has had the opportunity to work at the cutting edge of information technology and telecommunications in education and training nationally and internationally. Gerry as Chief Executive Officer of the national ICT agency in Australian education and training, provides leadership and direction in the development, enhancement, standards and use of online distributed and managed national education networks. His current work involves oversight of a number of major national projects and the formation of national and international alliances.

Gerry has been a member of the Australian ICT in Education Committee (AICTEC) and other the national groups advising on ICT in schools and vocational education and training for nine years.

Gerry has been a teacher, Mathematics Consultant, Deputy Principal, Curriculum Management Consultant, and School Principal with the South Australian Education Department, then Deputy Director of Catholic Education and National Coordinator of Information Technology and Telecommunications in Education for Catholic education across Australia.

Gerry has worked in education for over thirty years, specialising in curriculum and technology in education. His Master's graduate thesis examined the integration of computers with curriculum in schools including the impact of computer location and configuration on educational use.

Gerry founded the Computer Education Group of South Australia in 1984 and was Chairperson for five years. He was also a member of the Australian Council for Computers in Education for many years. In 1987, Gerry became Chairperson of the Australian Computers in Education Conference. Gerry was President of the SA Chapter of the Australian College of Education (ACE) and was admitted as a Fellow of the ACE in 1991. His Fellowship was awarded as recognition for his outstanding work in the field of technology in education. Gerry served for several years on the National Council of ACE as a technology in education adviser. Currently, Gerry is a Director of the Internet Society of Australia and works with the South Australian Chapter of Australian Telecommunications User Group.

Barcelona for the International Online Educa Conference (May 2003), at the Eminent III conference in Stockholm (November 2003), CeBIT (May 2004), Asia Pacific Forum Science Meeting in India 2004, Online Educa Conference in Berlin (2003, 2004) as well as at the annual COSN conference (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005) and the South_East Asian Summit (2005).