ISACA Awards Presented to Top INFO 301 Students
Top-performing INFO 301 student Indrani Roy's project has been recognised with an ISACA award.
Top-performing INFO 301 student Indrani Roy's project to explore and predict the possible future impact of biometrics in the hotel industry has been recognised with an ISACA award.
Indrani, along with fellow students Rhys McIlwaine and Stephanie Isaac, received cash prizes for project work which applied frameworks from INFO 301 to explore the impact of a new or emerging technology in a novel business situation that they invented. These students, along with family, friends, and staff at the School of Information Management, attended the function at SIM on Friday 10 February to acknowledge the winners.
Vaughan Harrison, President of the Wellington chapter of ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), noted that these awards would be a great help to the students when they were trying to stand out in the job market further down the track.
"The ISACA Wellington Board of Directors is pleased to support Victoria University's INFO 301 Strategic Information Systems Management course, which focuses on the strategic importance of information systems within organisations," said Mr Harrison.
"The related research essays demonstrate the skill sets learned by students that will enable them to successfully contribute to the current information system change agenda."
ISACA's other prizes acknowledged the high quality of reports by INFO 301 students from the 2011 cohort. Rhys investigated the potential benefits and issues of the use of RFID sensor tags by Progressive Enterprises within an automated ordering system; and Stephanie's project investigated the issues surrounding the use of RFID chips in patient's wristbands in hospitals.
ISACA, an international professional association that deals with IT Governance, established these awards to assist and encourage students studying in the areas of Information Systems audit, control, security and governance.