Establish a business to increase digital awareness

The Empowering Business to Go Digital program will provide a single grant of up to $3 million in total to support a non-government organisation – either existing or new - to build and enhance small business digital capability and to address issues raised in the Small Business Digital Taskforce report.

The Empowering Business to Go Digital program will provide a single grant of up to $3 million to support the establishment of a non-government organisation to build and enhance small business digital capability and to address issues raised in the Small Business Digital Taskforce report. The program will run from 2019-20 to 2021-22.

The objectives of the program are to:

• establish a financially self-sustaining non-government organisation (NGO), or leverage an existing NGO, to increase small business awareness and adoption of digital technology, in line with the recommendations of the Small Business Digital Taskforce Report
• establish a website that will draw together existing digital resources from across government and the private sector, providing a one-stop-shop in empowering a digitised society
• improve information sharing between businesses, government, industry associations and the small business commissioners.

The intended outcomes of the program are:

• increased accessibility of small business digital information
• increase small business awareness and adoption of digital technology
• improved small business digital capability and productivity.

The Empowering Business to Go Digital program is closed to applications.