Establish a business to increase digital awareness
Empowering Business To Go Digital
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.
Closed
The grant is no longer available
What do you get?
A one-time grant of up to $3 million in matched funding.
Who is this for?
Australian incorporated entities with an ABN and a desire to increase digital awareness.
Overview
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.