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
This grant is currently closed to applications
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.