Grants for Grabs: Collaborative solutions program

Got a killer app or a new gadget in need of a cash injection to get it off the ground? Then listen up: the NSW Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services is on the lookout for new mobile and wireless technologies, devices and applications to help get their public service wired and up to 21st-century scratch. And it is offering hand-outs of up to $200,000 to do it.

Broadly speaking, the mobile government program aims to support and enhance the most innovative IT-related and other capabilities and put them to use in a variety of ways across the full spectrum of the NSW public sector.

As a guide, each grant awarded will be a maximum of 30 per cent of total direct project costs, up to $200,000.

Entry into the program isn’t as straightforward as most other government programs but organisations with great ideas should stick at it: public sector support often can deliver the critical mass you need to turn great ideas into commercial realities in one swoop.

To be eligible, solutions must be predominantly developed and piloted in NSW.

Businesses must also apply as a consortium of three members, of which at least one member must be a user organisation (an agency within the department).

Don’t know any user organisations? Don’t fret – an industry and government pitching event will be held on December 8 to facilitate introductions, the exchange of ideas and the formation of consortia.

Businesses and department divisions will both have the opportunity to make brief presentations.

Further conditions apply, so consult the website.

Name: Department of Trade and Investment, Regional Infrastructure and Services

Phone: (02) 9338 6706

Web: www.business.nsw.gov.au

This information is provided to BRW by GrantReady, which maintains the largest source of grant and funding information for Australian businesses.

BRW

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