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and small, in every State and Territory. The Australian Industry Group is becoming increasingly active in the area of e-commerce and provides its members access to online services. The Australian Industry Group has a team of certified consultants to deliver AUSe.NET products and workshops across urban and regional areas in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
The AeB.N has also been working in partnership with AUSTRADE to help exporters and potential exporters in the small business sector to use e-commerce to improve their export competitiveness and capture new market opportunities. AUSTRADE will be running specific export-oriented e-commerce training workshops for small businesses using components from the AUSe.NET workshops.
Further information about the AeB.N and its business partners can be found at www.aebn.org.au .
Information Technology Online program
The Information Technology Online (ITOL) program is an annual competitive grants program managed by the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE). The goal of the program is to accelerate the national adoption of business to business electronic commerce solutions, especially by communities of small and medium enterprises. The projects demonstrate new and innovative online solutions that improve business competitiveness for identifiable clusters of Australian business, for real business benefits.
ITOL provides catalytic grant support on a competitive basis to collaborative projects including consortia of enterprises, business/ industry associations and universities. Successful proposals from the fourth round of funding were announced by the Minister for Communication, Information Technology and the Arts on 31 March 2000.
ITOL projects are catalysts for e-commerce uptake across industry sectors. They provide real business examples of the benefits of e-commerce and therefore help build business cases for going online.
Further information about the ITOL program can be found at www.noie.gov.au.
ExportNet Project
The ExportNet Project (www.tradegate.org.au) project involves developing electronic messaging facilities between shipping companies and their trading partners covering booking confirmations, forwarding instructions, pro forma bill of lading/waybill and export receival advice.
The great benefit of the project is that it will make the electronic documentary system for exports accessible to the small players who canˇ¦t afford EDI. This will be done through the Tradegate ECA Bureau Service (www.tradegate.org.au ) that can link EDI users with users of less expensive and sophisticated electronic commerce systems (eg e-forms).
ImportNet Project
The ImportNet project (www.tradegate.org.au) aims to establish a secure web-forms based bureau service that will enable small importers and customs brokers to receive electronic commercial releases from shipping lines. These are known as Import Delivery Orders (IDOs) and provide the shipping lineˇ¦s authority for release of the cargo by the container terminal operator.
The project has similar features to the ExportNet project in that it provides an Internet based solution using electronic commerce messaging systems that are affordable to the small operators. The project also allows for the use of EDI for those parties fitted with such a facility.
The IDO together with the electronic import clearance provided by Customs, are the two essential documents that importers, or their brokers, need to enable them to arrange transport to collect containers from the wharf terminal.
Paynet Project
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