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Contact
Details:
Tel: (02)
9365 1778; (02) 9319 6851
EMAIL click
HERE
Postal
Address:
PO Box 1852
Strawberry Hills NSW 2010
Sydney AUSTRALIA.
CyberPADDO
is the comprehensive site for the Paddington-Woollahra area
of Sydney, heart of Sydney's harbourside Eastern Suburbs.
CyberPADDO is one of 14 local community business networks being
developed by its parent company, CyberSYDNEY. CyberPaddo is
marked in MAUVE on this
map:
The CyberPADDO in-depth database already
includes over 5000 local businesses whose goods and services
are listed and searchable, ready for full e-commerce trading.
Our database is growing rapidly. If your business or organisation
is not already included, please email
us.
CyberPADDO,
covering the Woollahra Municipality of Sydney's Eastern Suburbs,
went "live" two years ago and contains about 4,000
businesses, including the fashion boutqies, art galleries
and restaurants that charactrise this affluent part of Sydney.
You can also click on CyberPaddo on the map to reach the site.
CLICK HERE
TO READ ABOUT THE PADDINGTON_WOOLLAHRA AREA.
CyberBONDI,
the site geographically closest to CyberPADDO, was our first
Cyber Site, established back in 1995 and covering the Bondi-Waverley
area of Sydney's beachside Eastern Suburbs. You can also click
on CyberBONDI on this map to reach its site. CyberBONDI attracts
over 6-million "hits" a year from all over the world
and locally.
CyberSouth, covering trhe South Sydney
area from Moore Park and Randwick to Botany Bay, will go "live"
soon.
CyberNorthernBeaches and CyberMetro (Inner
Sydney) will soon follow.
CyberSydney
enables businesses & organisations to become fully-functioning
members of the world of e-commerce and the Internet.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
The
first thing to know about us is that we have been at
what we are doing for a long time - since 1995, in fact.
(Though we did not launch our first Internet Community
Network - CyberBONDI - until 2000.)
It all started in late 1995 when we - Robert Darroch
and Sandra Jobson (Darroch) - were appointed Media advisors
at the then new Australian Technology Park at Redfern.
We had just been introduced, by our young "techo",
to the Internet (previously we had been involved in
syndication and desktop publishing). Realising - having
been in the Media all our professional lives - the potential
of the Internet, we decided to start up an Internet-oriented
business at the ATP.
Coincidentally, we learned that an Internet World Expo
would be held the following year, so we resolved to
try to construct a virtual pavilion as Sydney's entry
in the Expo - we called it Cybersydney.
We decided to model our Cybersydney virtual pavilion
on a digital recreation of the famous Garden Palace,
which housed the Sydney International Exhibition of
1879-80, and which "showcased" the goods and
services then available in Sydney, NSW and Australia.
Our intention was to use the "expo" format
of plazas, courts, lobbies, etc, to showcase the goods
and services of modern Sydney. For us, this seemed an
ideal and convenient way to enable people to find and
access such goods and services via the Internet.
Our vision was very much of a digital future, when the
Internet would interconnect all homes and business in
Sydney, and people would use the Internet - and our
plazas - to conduct their daily lives.
Moreover, we were convinced that, when this new era
of connectivity dawned, people would tend to patronise
the localities they were most familiar with - their
own neighbourhood. (We also thought that local businesses
would need to compete with business outside their immediate
areas, who would try to compete with them by exploiting
the Internet to service their local customer base.)
Therefore, from the outset, we focussed on neighbourhood
precincts, and "localness". We divided Sydney
up into precincts (comprising 14 Cyber subsets) and
started constructing local Internet Community Networks
(ICNs) to service them.
We then used the expo concept to list all local business
and other interests, provide access to them via our
plaza format, showcase their goods and services, and
thus promote and facilitate local e-commerce.
Time and tide, however, played havoc with our plans
and intentions. The Internet did not develop as quickly
as we had assumed it would. The ICN concept was more
complex than we had envisioned. A lot of fresh code
had to be written, and new systems developed. A lot
of blind alleys were gone down.
But we learned from our experiences, and persevered.
We believe we have found solutions to problems that
others have yet to encounter.
(Fortunately, from a financial perspective, one of our
early employees got an idea for an open source Internet
project, and this blossomed, and is now Squiz p/l, one
of the most successful open source Internet companies
in the world. Robert Darroch is chairman of Squiz. See
http://www.squiz.net
)
As the years passed, we continued to develop our systems
and data-gathering-and-updating (and enhancing) techniques
to the point when, first, in 2008 we launched our second
Cybersydney ICN, CyberPADDO, and now we are poised to
open our third (Cyber South Sydney)…
…and we are well-advanced with several more (Cyber
Inner Sydney will probably be our next and fourth ICN,
though Cyber Northern Beaches, Cyber CBD, Cyber North
Harbour and Cyber North Shore are also well advanced).
We are continuously improving and refining what we do,
while trying to keep our growth and development in step
with the growth and development of the Internet, e-commerce,
and the dawning digital age.
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Important Notice: Our sites will continue to develop
and change as time goes on. We have a team out "on the
ground" in each of CyberSydney's Cyber sites working
to eradicate and correct the inevitable anomalies and errors
that creep into any list. You can help us by providing updates
and corrections about your business. Just email
us.
Please also contact CyberPADDO if you
find an error in our information, such as an incorrect phone
number or address. We want to make CyberPADDO as accurate
and useful as possible.
How We Help Local Businesses
We believe that being local is the way to help businesses
and consumers in our area.
By having an Internet presence, local businesses can be open
24 hours a day, 365 days a year. What's more, being local
is a real plus. Why should people have to search the world
for what they want when the same goods and services are right
at their door and can be picked up immediately or delivered
the same day?
CyberSYDNEY is developing an interlocking
system of Internet Community Networks (ICNs) based on existing
suburban and regional shopping centres and marketplaces to
make Internet e-commerce easy and profitable for local businesses
everywhere.
FREE WEB PAGE
If your business is located in the Paddington-Woollahra
area and is not already listed in CyberPADDO, please email
us.
Chief Executive:
Robert Darroch
Executive Director & General Manager: Sandra Jobson
Database Manager: Peter Jeffery
Database Assistants: Lisa Jeffery, Janet Liang
Artists: Lucy Barker, Danielle Holden
Advertising Department: Tel: (02) 9365 1778; (02) 9319
6851
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