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Project profiles - round 5
The projects funds under Round 5 cover a range of regional and national initiatives. Many of the projects have a specific focus on small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Spatial Australia - Delivering Export Business Facilitation through e-Collaboration
This project will develop a business-to-business on-line solution to enhance the export competitiveness of the spatial information industry. The project will involve web based collaboration between SME members of the industry cluster - Spatial Australia, in responding to and executing export project opportunities. An important aspect of the project will be the production of generic specifications capable of being re-used by other industry clusters, thereby providing for a standard industry approach to responding to export opportunities.
ITOL Funding: $85,000
Dubbo City Online
This project builds upon an established and well regarded local website, and will provide 1800 local businesses with e-commerce opportunities. By utilising locally developed Knet software this project will add e-commerce facilities to the existing site. By combining many small and medium businesses' products and services into a single facility, regionally based users can search for a specific requirement, without having to move around several sites. The cost to each business is vastly reduced by sharing the expense of software, hardware and maintenance between many companies, and additionally by integrating Dubbo City Online and it's existing facilities and funding.
ITOL Funding: $22,000
Contact: dcdc@dubbo.com.au
Master Builders - I-Build
This project comprises the design and construction of a whole-of-industry portal to engender greater awareness within the building and construction industry of the multiple online approaches of accessing information and services. The building industry is notoriously fragmented and slow in its uptake of IT compared to other industries and it is hoped that this initiative will provide a single entry point for the industry to access general industry information, tender listings, online training courses, economic forecast and project management and document management applications. We are also working with the public and private sector clients, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, project managers and numerous sub-contractors across all trades to ensure commonality of outcome with regards to our e-business strategy.
ITOL Funding: $110,000
Contact: mark@mbansw.asn.au
smartTEN Textile, Clothing and Footwear - B2B HUB
This project is being established to implement B2B e-commerce services into a section of the TCF market with the intention of an established product standards being adopted by the entire industry. This project will implement a hub that will allow TCF companies to better meet the needs of their customers. The project will facilitate the adoption of standards in the industry for messaging and product identification and has the potential to generate significant savings in supply chain management as well as positively effect import replacement and export targets.
ITOL Funding: $50,000
Contact: casprel@attglobal.net
E-Global: Aged Care Online Portal
There has been a strong focus by government on improving the aged care industry over the last four years. This project will provide a portal that will link aged care providers to the wide range of services being provided online, such as a Bed Vacancy Management System, OH&S Management System and E-procurement System to name a few. The project has gained support from a range of organisations within the industry, including industry associations. The project team is also aware of other developments in the sector and is keen to link them to the portal rather than developing competing solutions, this is particularly so of another initiative to develop an online care planning and claims management capability.
ITOL Funding: $75,000
Contact: john_gilmore@eglobal.net
South Australian Local Government E-Procurement Project
This project aims to deliver a whole of local government e-procurement solution for South Australian councils and their suppliers. The project hopes to demonstrate the potential for e-procurement systems to deliver savings and efficiencies to both buyers and suppliers alike.
ITOL Funding: $100,000
Contact: David.duncan@Ecouncils.com.au
Conception to Consumption
This project will integrate the needs of butchers and small goods manufacturers with the production planning processes of beef producers and abattoirs, creating efficiencies and allowing better business planning. The project will demonstrate how a small-scale Intranet can enable rural businesses to work together in an integrated supply chain, thereby benefiting all members.
ITOL Funding: $75,000
Contact: innobiz@vicnet.net.au
Remote Business Australia
Businesses in central Australia suffer significant difficulties because of their isolation from both their suppliers and customers. This project aims to bring the benefit of e-commerce to these businesses and allow them to interact more efficiently with their supply chain. The project will reach beyond businesses located in Alice Springs to the many cattle stations and properties across a wide area of central Australia, enabling both buyers and sellers to reap the benefits of supply chain efficiency through e-commerce. Other potential benefits include expanding work options for people living in these areas so that they can take advantage of working over the Internet, and creation of a platform for e-commerce growth.
ITOL Funding: $110,000
Contact: martin.pike@pattens.com.au
PacStream: Creating More Time to Promote and Sell Books Efficiently
Although books were probably one of the first products in Australia to carry barcodes and have unique identifiers, the battle to enhance book selling supply chains to take advantage of this is still being fought. The project will facilitate the development and implementation of standards for information exchange for the industry, resulting in greater supply chain efficiency.
ITOL Funding: $100,000
Contact: pacstream@connect.net.au
Flinders Rangers On-Line Reservations Systems
The program is focused on the tourism accommodation industry in the Flinders Ranges and particularly the smaller operators. The project will enable those operators to have their computerised reservation system sit behind their web page allowing customers to book accommodation over the internet and have immediate confirmation. This project aims to bring the benefit of e-commerce to business in central Australia, allowing them to interact more efficiently with the supply chain. The project will bring many businesses in remote northern regions online, including cattle stations and properties across a wide area of central Australia. Potential benefits of the project include expansion of employment opportunities for people living in these areas through application of internet technology. The project will also minimise barriers to e-commerce business entry, create a platform for e-commerce growth, and generally meet the supply chain needs of SME's in remote areas of northern Australia.
ITOL Funding: $25,000
Contact: aeastick@nrdb.com.au
Cootamundra - Taking Care of Business
The Cootamundra project will demonstrate the benefits available to small businesses in regional Australian through using the Internet to improve business information flow. The project consists of a portal for businesses in the district. The portal will create opportunities for economic growth in the region through alliances, shared services and collaborative industry development. The project will focus on Cootamundra, but the experience will be transferable to surrounding shires and other areas within Australia.
ITOL Funding: $25,000
Contact: cdc@yol.net.au
KU Arts Online
The project will deliver benefits to indigenous Australian's and their art and craft centres located in north-west South Australia by unifying stock control and retail management. The project will facilitate the movement of information online from these isolated communities to other sites and trading partners in Australia and overseas, effectively bringing artists and the businesses involved in marketing their art close together. Once established, the model can be replicated by other indigenous arts communities. This project also has an international flavour - 80% of site traffic and 50-60% of sales are expected to be from outside Australia.
ITOL Funding: $75,000
Contact: Will@waru.org
Online Livestock Exchange
Establish and develop an online livestock Marketing system that ties into the existing physical auction system enabling accurate animal assessment language, linkage to all member livestock exchanges throughout Australia, including linkage of the National Livestock Identification Scheme (NLIS) as developed by MLA and the National Vendor Deceleration form into our On-line Livestock Exchange program, and the introduction of a refined video support appraisal system. The project plans to bring saleyards and their users into the information age. There are also ancillary benefits such as minimising misclassification of livestock.
ITOL Funding: $60,000
Contact: soansw@ozemail.com.au
E-hub: The Electrical and Cabling Industry e-Commerce Initiative
This project will deliver a set of standards and processing capabilities for the distribution of product and trade document data within the Australian Electrical and Data Cabling industry. A company, Universal Exchange Services, has been formed to deliver the e-Commerce requirements of the project. The project aims at improving business process efficiencies through open standards, the adoption of the European Article Numbering (EAN) approach and a centralised processing capability.
ITOL Funding: $75,000
Contact: jamie.collins@pacificcommerce.com.au
E-Retailing and Distribution for Regional Supermarkets
This project will facilitate development within the independent retail sector throughout Australia by establishing a retail community portal. The portal will e-enable small businesses to enhance their operations, primarily by improving the flow of information along the supply chain. The portal will also allow supermarkets to expand their range of services through the use of online technology. The portal will create opportunities for economic recovery in the independent food retail sector through alliances, shared services and collaborative industry development.
ITOL Funding: $100,000
Contact: wmason@aiw.com.au
eBOM - electronic Business Oriented Method
A key element in the development of EC solutions for industry sectors is having a systematic approach to business analysis, workflow analysis and the identification and specification of technology specific solutions. This project aims to develop business and workflow analysis tools, so that they can be easily applied to different sectors of the economy and facilitate the development of appropriate industry EC solutions. The project takes advantage of international developments in the both the UML and XML standards, and applies them toward developing a product that will permit industry-wide process description and message standards development.
ITOL Funding: $75,000
Contact: keith.finkelde@btfinancialgroup.com