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ITOL is an Australian Government funding program that supports the take up of collaborative e-business across a wide range of industry sectors by offering competitive funding of up to $200,000.

The objectives are to:

• encourage collaborative industry based projects that aim to accelerate the adoption of business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solutions across a wide range of industry sectors, especially by clusters of SMEs
• foster the awareness and strategic take up of innovative e-commerce solutions within and across industry sectors which deliver sustainable economy wide returns and contribute to increased competitiveness.  

ITOL encourages industry groups and small business to identify and adopt commercial uses of the Internet to support productivity and profitability. The ITOL program is a catalyst for industry groups to work collaboratively to solve common problems on an industry wide basis, rather than working individually and developing multiple solutions and in some cases unnecessarily duplicating efforts. The preferred e-business solutions will be open and inclusive for all participants.

Previous ITOL recipients have supported projects across areas as diverse as agriculture, health and pharmaceutical, building and construction, automotive and welfare groups. These projects have been located in regional and metropolitan areas and in all Australian states and territories.

In each ITOL round the industry solutions have demonstrated high levels of innovation and reflected emerging e-business applications such as e-marketplaces, wireless solutions, value chains, introduction of industry standards and promoting interoperable solutions. A central feature of many of the successful applications has been a high level of collaboration among businesses.

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