L ocal Information Economy Network

The Local Information Economy Network [LIEN] has been formed to enable Local Government 
Areas to benefit from the Federal and State Electronic Transaction Acts [ETA].

On 03 Dec 2006 a letter from the Hon Minister Jennifer RANKINE, Minister for Consumer Affairs, 
Minister for Volunteers and Minister for Status of Women South Australia stated that the
Electronic Transaction Act 2000 "provides the Regulatory framework that-

	a	Recognises the Importance of the Information Economy to the
		future economic and social prosperity of Australia

	b	facilitates the use of electronic transactions

	c	promotes business and community confidence in the use of
		electronic transactions; and

	d	enables business and the community to use electronic communications
		in their dealing with Government"

However it transpired that the Australian eCommerce Standard AS4590 had two conflicting
address formats that was "inhibiting and destroying consumer confidence" in eCommerce

On 22 Dec 2006 Members of the "Organisation for the Advancement of Structured Information 
Standards [OASIS]", ebXML Australia and the Open Interchange Consortium [OIC] reached agreement
that the complex address version of the Australian eCommerce Standard AS 4590 should 
always be used for Information Economy Applications

On 06 Mar 2007 Bankstown Council issued an "EOI for Name & Address Integration" for
"six (6) key corporate applications and a number of minor databases"

This is the issue that OIC Members have been seeking to address by developing Internet
Applications that utilise the same Name and Address format.
 
LIEN has been formed to enable Australian Local Government and their eCommunities to 
implement these applications that have been developed using the complex address option 
of AS4590 as the foundation structure

The first tier in the LIEN Network is the Local Government Agency.

For a Local Government Agency, the Membership of LIEN is based on the Population listed in 
the latest published document on Local Government by the Australian Bureau of Statistics

In addition as a Member of LIEN a Local Government Agency can sponsor an event to promote
a Tourism Attraction or the sale/development of a Local Asset

There are currently eight eApplications available on the Local Information Economy Network.

NOTE BENE [NB]

These fees are based on the following understandings:

1	This ia a totally new concept and there are risks involved including the fact 
	that information may have to be re-keyed as the formats are changed due to 
	practical experiences 

2	These applications have been developed so that the smallest Council can
	use them at minimal financial cost hence they are not sophisticated fail-safe
	computer applications

3	The OIC and its members have developed these applications to stimulate
	the use of the Interent and Standard application software to enable 
	Local Communities to benefit from the Electronic Transactions Acts

4	all application download and support will be from the Internet 

5	One of the objectives on the Local Information Economy Network is to
	develop Local CIT Skills to support Local Business
 
POPULATIONANNUAL
 A          100 -     5,000$    250.00
 B      5,001 -   10,000$    500.00
 C    10,001 -   25,000$ 1,000.00
 D    25,000 - 100,000$ 2,500.00
 E 100,000 +$ 5,000.00

		LOCAL INFORMATION ECONOMY NETWORK APPLICATIONS

	Assisting Local Government to benefit from the Electronic Transaction Acts

	As a member of the Local Information Economy Network your Local Government
	Agency will have access to the following applications that have been developed
	utilising the Complex Address Version of the Australian eCommerce Standard AS4590

	The Current Applications that are available for licence include:

	A	The OTMG Electronic Tender Information Management Service [TIMS]

	B	The Local Event Information Management Service [EEIM]

	C	Local Junior Sports Information System [JSIS] which facilitates Sports 
		Team Sponsorship by Local Businesses.

		JSIS incorporates Child Protection Information as part of the process

		This is the link to the prototpye spreadsheet for a record of the 
		details of all the Sporting Clubs within a Council Areas 

	D	Electronic Volunteer Information Management [EVIM]

	E	Electronic Contract Information Management [ETIM]

	F	Electronic Committee Information Management [ECIM] process developed
		for local community networks

	G	A eComplaints process [EPIM] which can apply for a Child Abuse or Local 
		Complaint/Applications issue

	H	the OIC eQuestionnaire process developed as a part of a Joint Venture Contract 
		with the Federal Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small
		Business [DEWRSB]

	The current fees for these applications are based on

	A	one-off application download fee for registration for on-going updates, 
	B	10% Transaction fee as part of the Information Economy process, 
	C	10% eCredits Fee for local support 
	D	10c web page hit fee

PROMOTING LOCAL EVENTS AND ASSETS

	As a member of the Local Information Economy Network a Council can sponsor a 
	monthly meeting.

	Sponsoring a monthly meeting provides a Council with 4 weekly opportunities to
	raise awareness of an issue like an Event, a Tourism Asset or the Sales of 
	Assets or Land

	OIC and SMEEMS event emails are distributed to 12,000 email contacts around in 
	Australia and 30,000 email contacts around the Asia-Pacific region.

	The fee for Sponsoring an event is $ 1,000.00 for the 4 week email process with
	a link to the Council Event, Asset or Home Page

 

*Mandatory - Field must be completed

Aa: ORGANISATION DETAILS
 *Organisation Name:
   
  *Short Name:
   
   ABN (Bus Reg No):    
 *Size of LGA  :    
 *Main Application Interest:    

Ab: ORGANISATION LOCATION
Room/Suite:  
Floor:  
Building:  
Street Number:  
Street:  
Suburb:  
State:  
*Pcode:  
Country:  

Ac: ORGANISATION POSTAL DETAILS
PO Box:  
Post Office :  
Suburb:  
State:  
Postcode:  
Country:  

Ad: ORGANISATION COMMUNICATIONS
*Telephone Area Code:  
*Telephone No:  
Free Phone:  
Fax Area Code:  
Fax Number:  
Free Fax:  
Organisation Web Address:  
http://  
 
*Organisation email Address:  
   
 
   

Ga: APPLICANT DETAILS
Title:  
Initials:(incl Family Name)  
*Preferred Name:  
First Name:  
Second Name:  
Third Name:  
*Family Name:  
Position:  

Gb: APPLICANT LOCATION
Room/Suite:  
Floor:  
Building:  
Street No:  
Street:  
Suburb:  
State:  
*Postcode:  
Country:  

Gc: APPLICANT POSTAL DETAILS
PO Box:  
Post Office :  
Suburb:  
State:  
Postcode:  
Country:  

Gd: APPLICANT COMMUNICATIONS
*Telephone Area Code:  
*Telephone No:  
Mobile:  
Fax Area Code:  
Fax Number:  
Pager:  
*Applicant email Address:  
   
 

Sa: MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS
Membership Type: 
   
Payment Method:  
   
Payment Amount: 
   
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Card Expiry Date:  
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