Kids Safe-at-Sport Network     [KSAS-Au]	An OIC Initiative

10:21 Thu 12 Apr 2007			REF:ARU2SBN1

TO:	MarK GREEN			cc	Dan MOORE-President
	CEO					Ben ANSON-Barkers OB
	NSW SUBURBAN RUGBY UNION		JSIS Development Team 

	RUGBY CLUBS & THE LOCAL INFORMATION ECONOMY

Hi Mark - further to our telephone conversation I thought it may be 
helpful to confirm why the Sports Information System developed for
the "Local Information Economy" is unique.

A	Federal & State Electronic Transactions Acts [ETA]
B	Local Information Economy
C	On-line Registration Processes
D	Volunteer Management System
E	Next Steps

A	FEDERAL & STATE ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION ACTS

Very few Australians are aware of the Federal and State Electronic
Transaction Acts passed in 1999-2003

These Acts means anybody clicking on a web-page generates a 
"hit" which will have a value for the "Local Information Economy"

Any electronic message "now has value" - hence all the junk mail 
to stimulate emails and questionnaires and share trading

B	THE LOCAL INFORMATION ECONOMY

The "Local Information Economy" has been promoted by a number of 
MPs including the Hon Jennifer RANKINE SA Minister for Volunteers.

This is her letter to the OIC dated 03 Dec 2006

Ben ANSON the President of Barkers Old Boys has been copied
in on this email as Ben was commissioned in 2003 by Sydney Port 
to produce a report on the Problems for the Port with eCommerce.

This is Ben's report to the Federal Treasury 2003 Public Consultation 
"E-commerce:A Best Practice Model - Building Consumer Confidence"

I appreciate many of the NSW Suburban Rugby Union web sites
have sites developed by Interfuse Media Group [IMG] and there is a 
contract until Dec 2008.

However you may want to share this information with IMG as we are 
prepared to work with them to assist NSW Suburban Rugby Union 
Clubs benefit from "Local Information Economy".

The key issues for the "Local Information Economy" are:

A	An On-line Registration System - This email

B	A Volunteer Management System - This email

C	Local Information not Centralised Information

D	Enabling local businesses to sponsor individual web-pages

A	ON-LINE REGISTRATION SYSTEM

The Infrasport System already provides an On-line Registration 
System for "players, coaches, managers or other volunteers"

This On-line Registration System provides credit card payment
facilities as part of a secure eCommerce system

However this On-line Registration System format only uses the simple
address version of the Australian eCommerce Standard AS4590.

In Oct 2006 at an OASIS XML Conference in Sydney delegates and
speakers agreed to form an eCommittee to resolve the problems of
two different address formats in the Australian eCommerce Standard

There is a Simple Address Format and a Complex Address Format

The two formats requires each electronic transaction to be checked
to see which Format is used and convert the simple address format
into the Complex Address format - a significant and unnecessary 
cost component for each Electronic Transaction

On 22 Dec 2006 an international eCommittee confirmed that the
Complex version of AS4590 should always be used to avoid a 
perpetual on-going conversion fees from converting the simplex version 
to the complex version as web applications are enhanced

B	A VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

In 2002 the Federal Department of Families and Community Services 
[FaCS] commissioned a report "The Communities Most Valuable 
[Hidden] Asset-Volunteering in Australia".

This report quoted the Ironmonger 2000 report which "estimated
(in 1997) the value of Volunteering to Australia as $ 41 Billion
at the hourly rate of $ 17.10/hr"

In 2004 the Rio Tinto WA Future Fund set up a Volunteer Management
Scheme [RTVMS] with the WA Department of Sport

This Volunteer Management Scheme records Volunteer Credits
as an Asset for the Local Council and the Sport Peak Body NOT the
Sports Club or the Volunteer.

In 2005 OIC members formed an eCommunity Special Interest Group
to develop the Junior Sports Information Service [JSIS].

This was a joint venture with a Junior Soccer Club in the Northern 
Beaches.

It was developed to assist with the Management of Team and Player
records and provide a way for Local Businesses to support Local Team
by providing 4 sponsor slots on 10 web-pages per team

Here is an example with the Chatswood area

At the 2005 NSW Suburban Grand Finals the program produce by
St Ives for the final with Hornsby included 18 Sponsors just for 
a one-off game !

At the Nov 2005 AGM a Football Club agreed to a joint venture for 
Electronic Volunteer Management System

On 24 Dec 2005 the President of the Joint-venture football club
produced a new Volunteer Function document that included 22 new 
Volunteer functions including a Sub-junior, Junior and Senior Web 
Coordinators

This is the way we believe most amateur sports clubs will develop

E	NEXT STEPS

Dan/Mark - please share this information with Infrasport and your members 
as we would be interested in their feedback.

The other issues will be sent to you next week

Regards


Stephen GOULD
Project Co-ordinator
JUNIOR SPORTS INFORMATION SYSTEM [JSIS]
AND KIDS SAFE-AT-SPORT NETWORK [KSAS-Au]
14:29	H	2007/04/12	Syd	2065

E:	stephen.gould@oic.org
M:	0416-009-468