Australian Information Industry Association

Joining a Board of Directors is challenging at the best of times, the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) had four new members join at the dawn of the COVID-19 crisis. Each Director had to deal with dramatically changing circumstances in their own business at the same time that the AIIA was facing what seemed at the time to be an insurmountable crisis.

Imagine last year reading a story that began: ‘In 2020 we will have these massive fires and they will burn for months destroying 50 million acres and then we will have a horrible virus that will infect millions of people that make everyone on the planet stay inside.’ You would have been convinced that only an eight-year-old would write something like that!