Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
The Commonwealth’s Government 2.0 Taskforce will announce within weeks application details for Web innovators seeking grants through the taskforce’ $2.45 million Project Fund.
The Taskforce met in Canberra today to discuss the Project Fund issue,
and to finalise a series of innovation competitions it will run through
the Government 2.0 process that will attract healthy prizes from the Project Fund pool.
Taskforce chairman Nicolas Gruen said although the Project Fund would
seed ideas that would be included in the Government 2.0 Taskforce reporting process – reporting to Finance Minister Lndsay Tanner by the
end of the year – and may also provide backing for projects that run
beyond December.
“There are a range of projects that we’d like to see completed – funded
and completed – by the end of the year, so that we can have them feed
into our final report,” Dr Gruen said.
“But there is scope for projects that might extend beyond that date,”
he said, adding taskforce is trying to get “get details for funding out
there as quickly as possible.”
Different Project Fund initiatives would be announced that would ensure
the maximum participation of innovators from both the private sector,
as well as departments agencies and councils from all levels of
Government.
The Project Fund is a $2.45 million fund available to the Taskforce to
support the development of Web 2.0 tools and applications that either
enable engagement between government and the community or support the
innovative use of government information.
The Project Fund was established in partnership with Microsoft from a
special Service Provision Fund (SPF) that was created as a part of
Microsoft’s sourcing arrangement with the Federal Government. A portion
of revenue from sales to Government between 2001 and 2008 were tipped
into the SPF, which Lindsay Tanner then steered to the Gov 2.0
Taskforce.
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