Richard is a co-Founder and co-Director of Ryan Watson Consulting Pty Ltd (RWC), a small consulting firm in Geospatial Data Analytics in Melbourne, Australia. Richard worked for 25 years as a Research Scientist in Operations Research for the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, and as a Part-time Lecturer in IT. Although many people of his age group are content to retire, Richard and his co-Founder Peter Ryan are committed to lifelong learning and helping the community, and set up their consultancy to help public and private organisations make better use of the real-time and open data now available via internet-of-things technology and government open data policies. As well, RWC supports free and open-source software, including geospatial, which can facilitate decision making in many areas of government and industry.

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