The Digital Enterprise program will provide training and advice to small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) and not-for-profit organisations (NFPs)—including local cultural institutions—in 40 communities that  benefit from the National Broadband Network (NBN). The program will help these organisations to better understand how they can maximise the opportunities from greater digital engagement, enabled by the NBN.

The program will provide group information and training sessions as well as deliver advice and assistance to individual organisations at their places of business on how to use high-speed broadband applications enabled by the NBN to diversify their operations. Such applications will help improve online presence, offer new products and services, expand markets, improve competitiveness, and increase the means for communicating with customers, suppliers and partners.

The program will also assist NFPs to engage online by using the NBN to extend their reach into the community, expand their donor pools to include, potentially, the entire world, and explore more innovative ways of creating awareness for their causes.

Local cultural institutions participating in the program will be assisted to use broadband services enabled by the NBN to engage online to enhance their standing as community-based centres and reach wider audiences, while helping foster an environment of shared knowledge and understanding.

Digitalbusiness.gov.au Has Been Launched (www.digitalbusiness.gov.au) This website provides guidance for small businesses, not-for-profits and community organisations to establish or enhance their online presence.