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OPEN INTERCHANGE CONSORTIUM [OIC]Founded 1994 to assist Large, Medium and Small Business understand the myriad of new
Electronic Technology issues through regular lunchtime lectures and special interest
groups
On 23 Jul 1996 at the Annual General Meeting [AGM] OIC members gave a unanimous
mandate to form an eCredits system for Volunteers
On 23 Aug 1996 OIC members used the "Group Support System [GSS]" provided by one of
the members "Decision Support Centres Australia" to agree the OIC Mission, Services
and Culture
In 1997 while researching GSS applications, the paper from the University of Arizona
"Lessons from a dozen years of GSS research involving 4,000 projects" confirmed the
tremendous potential of GSS for project management including:
Table 1. Lessons learned about GSS in organisations
1 GSS technology does not replace leadership.
2 GSS technology does not imply any particular leadership style.
3 GSS can make a well planned meeting better; and it can make a poorly planned
meeting worse.
4 Individuals must have incentive to contribute to group effort.
5 GSS can reduce labour costs by more than 50% and project time by up to 90%
In 1998 members developed an On-line system called "OIC Y2K Resource Asset
Management Program [OIC Y2K RAMP]" to enable Small & Medium size Enterprises
[SMEs] to provide On-line evidence for their suppliers and customers of their progress
with Y2K Compliance
In Jun 1999 this On-line software application won 1st prize in the "IT for SME" Category
of the prestigious Global Bangemann Challenge in Stockholm Sweden where the trophy
was presented by the King of Sweden
In Jul 2000 members released an "XML Tender Information Management Service [TIMS]" to
provide a uniform On-line Tender systems for Australian and New Zealand Federal, State and
Local Government tenders - TIMS published over 18,000 tenders" analysed over 9 different
Industries and 11 different application groups
In 2001 the Federal Government Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Small
Business [DEWRSB] commissioned the OIC Local Government Interest Group [LZIG] to conduct
a series of On-line surveys with 173 NSW Local Government agencies about raising
Awareness of XML for On-line local Government application
OIC members established over 20 Special interest groups including:
1 XML [XZIG] established Mar 2000
2 Local Government [LZIG] established Mar 2001
3 Open Source & Linux [OZIG] established Jan 2004
4 eHealth [HZIG] established Mar 2011
5 Cryptocurrencies & Blockchain [TZIG] established Oct 2016
In Oct 2006 the OIC was invited to speak at the International OASIS conference in Sydney
about "XML in the Government Tender Process"
During that presentation when it was revealed that the Australian eName & Address
Standard AS 4590 and the International EDIFACT Standard both allowed a simple
address and complex address to be used in the Standard.
The members of OASIS agreed that only the complex address format should be used at all
times for electronic forms
