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Project profiles - round 7
The projects funded in Round 7 cover a range of regional and national initiatives. Many of the projects have a specific focus on small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Secure Internet Information Exchange in the Health Sector
Conducting eBusiness in the health sector, where privacy is paramount presents significant challenges. This project brings together a range of industry and government players to design and implement a secure Internet information exchange system using secure digital signatures.
By building on a previous project that exchanges secure patient data between doctor and hospital to improve clinical outcomes, this project aims to increase productivity and profitability by streamlining interactions between patients, healthcare providers and payer organisations by developing an e-billing and e-payment system using smart card technology.
Integral to this project is a robust research and evaluation component to test the viability of the concept for wider application in the health care sector. This solution will be trialed at the Brisbane Waters Private Hospital.
ITOL Funding: $130,000
Contact: peter.flower@smartcard.com.au
E-Culture Continuum
This consortium from the Albany region aims to pilot an automated intelligent eBusiness tool designed to increase and strengthen eBusiness business transactions by automatically searching for market opportunities, matching profiles and selectively delivering specific marketing information via email. The project is targeted at small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and is not industry specific, it could be replicated in any region at the completion of a successful pilot by this consortium
ITOL Funding: $174,000
Contact: Joh@albanycci.org.au
Mid North Coast E-Commerce and Portals
This is an innovative portal aggregation project. The project's primary purpose is to provide a means of leveraging the combined power of 19,000 businesses in the Mid North Coast of NSW region by creating a virtual business community. Increasing business to business awareness and uptake by SMEs in the region will be achieved by listing the products and services in an aggregated business format both locally and regionally and by grouping products and services together in a virtual shopping mall.
Community ownership will be achieved by extending support to eight established CoastCall portals whereby SMEs will be fully web enabled allowing them to individually market their businesses.
ITOL Funding: $135,000
Contact: peter@informationvista.com
Mobilising Construction
There is enormous potential for the building and construction sector to reap the benefits of eBusiness tools. This consortium aims to deliver quantifiable benefits to the construction industry by developing and delivering an eBusiness tool to streamline workflow management. The objective is to reduce major construction project bottlenecks by enabling site-based teams to receive, access and manage critical resources using mobile phone and Internet technologies. Process efficiencies that include safety error reductions and faster project delivery will be trialed on a live construction site in Melbourne and benchmarked for the wider construction industry.
By creating new opportunities to leverage information technologies throughout the construction supply chain, the beneficiaries of this project extend to telecommunication companies, industry groups and building supply networks.
ITOL Funding: $158,000
Contact: jeromy@bsite.net
e-EMF for Viticulture
The objective of this project is to drive viticulture productivity by further development of the Australian viticulture industry Environmental Management Framework (EMF) and adapt the framework as an eBusiness management package.
The proposed eBusiness system will allow individual growers and vignerons to use web based tools to document and implement best environmental management practices, based on specific conditions and requirements tailored to individual growers' operations.
The EMF is a SME integration tool to drive viticulture productivity and incorporates an electronic forum and research facility, an environmental management package, an environmental management training program and a best practice guide for the viticulture industry and environmental management and operational benchmarks. This solution will be trialed in the Mornington Peninsular region.The objective of this project is to adapt the Australian viticulture industry's Environmental Management Framework (EMF) for application as an e-commerce management package. The proposed adaptation provides a web-based tool that will allow individual growers and vignerons to document and implement best environmental management practices, based on specific conditions and requirements tailored to individual business conditions.
An electronic forum and research facility, an environmental management package, an environmental management training program, environmental management and operational benchmarks and a best practice guide for the viticulture industry will support the e-EMF.
ITOL Funding: $182,000
Contact: dgiles@coomes.net.au
Appliance Industry e-Commerce Project (Applie-com)
The small appliance industry comprises a competitive group of retailers, wholesalers and suppliers who traditionally operate in isolation to maximise their market share. This project seeks to develop an Australian standard for this industry through a high level of collaboration with the industry stakeholders.
This extensive consortium aims to devise and implement 25 Message Implementation Guidelines (MIGs) to extend cost reductions through efficiency gains. Other specifics include documenting best eBusiness transaction practices in supply chain management; providing a consistent communication message through repeat activity; achieving industry consensus on solutions to facilitate SME update of eBusiness and also achieving industry consensus on appropriate e-catalogue solutions.
An essential element of this project is a national communication program to ensure that the industry members and particularly rural based retail outlets are fully is informed about delivering efficiencies across supply chain trading partners and customers.
ITOL Funding: $94,000
Contact: Bigstep@bigpond.net.au
Development of Online Benchmarking Database
Research conducted by Queensland Department of Primary Industriesy (QDPI) and the Bread Research Institute (BRI) identified an urgent need to reduce production costs, improve competitiveness, improve output performance of systems and equipment and also improve worker safety levels within the amenity horticulture industries (plant nurseries, cut flower farms) and turf producers) and the bread baking industry.
This consortium's project's objective is to develop an information network using Internet technology for the generation, evaluation and monitoring of production performance. The network will enable industry members to -
- Access up-to-date information and continually monitor production performance against industry benchmarks
- Instantly evaluate production performance and identify areas where improvements can be made
Identify how industry best performers operate and access current information on industry best practice; - Evaluate the cost/benefit ratio of potential improvements and increase production performance by implementing best practice; and
- Evaluate the effectiveness of improvements implemented and objectively evaluate the performance of products and services sold by allied industry businesses.
The proposed solution project's could be adapted to any production-based industry and this concept will be investigated with the assistance of the Bread Research Institute.
ITOL Funding: $188,500
Contact: Voytek.Radajewski@dpi.qld.gov.au