Seeking Partners and Supporters

The International Indigenous Business Web Portal. This portal aims to facilitate business amongst indigenous nations on both a national and international level. Although at an early stage of development, we believe that this pre-release of the portal is in the best interest of organisations and communities we will be representing. We are currently processing, verifying, and gathering data for the portal and we would welcome your input.

My name is Janine Connors & my business idea is I'd like to go into a chain of hotels about 4-5, here in NSW & also QLD. <p>

Our goal is to develop a centre that will provide skills, knowledge and awareness for emerging Indigenous Communities/outstations/new homelands looking at ways to establish their communities for future sustainability using alternative applications of power and water and the establishment of ventures for the focus of sustainability, life style and profit. <p>
The enterprise will hold a sustainable community development focus and provide research and training for Indigenous governance in the areas of:<p><ul>

<a href="http://www.isx.org.au/resources/clips/1130466393_9641.html">Watch Clive Atkinson present the case for Investing and Supporting Mirrimbeena</a><p>

Clive Atkinson's Shields Designed specially for the Commonwealth Games<p>

<b>Project Purpose</b><p>
To further progress the expansion of Online Patient Health Records for Aboriginal people in remote and regional communities.<p>

At present a project is underway to provide Online Patient Health Records for all of the people in the eleven communities of the Ngannyatjarra Lands in W.A.. They will become the first Aboriginal community in Australia where all of their people will have online health records entered for all their visits to nurses or doctors in their remote clinics and participating hospitals.<p>

<b>1 Introduction</b><p>

This is a project to organize the establishment of local Technology Training and Support Centres (TTSC) in regional and remote communities. The primary beneficiaries will be Indigenous communities who are socially or economically disadvantaged and are on the other side of the Digital Divide.<p>

<b>What would a TTSC look like?</b><p>

At the Yawuru trading floor in May 2004, an exciting new partnership was announced between the Kimberley Aboriginal Pastoralists Assn (KAPA) and the Northern Cattle Alliance (NCA) from Cape York. The Northern Indigenous Pastoral Alliance (NIPA), as the partnership is known, will, among other things, develop a franchise business model for IPEs.
NIPA believes that the franchise model can deliver the possibility of sustainable IPEs by providing all key stakeholders with the incentives, skills and mentoring necessary to direct and manage indigenous cattle enterprises.

MSH Pty Ltd t/as Manbana, the wholly owned subsidiary of Kimberley Aquaculture Aboriginal Corporation (KAAC), and KAAC have secured funds to establish the sustainable marine aquarium fish enterprise over a 3 year period. Grant funds were received from Indigenous Business Australia (IBA) for the establishment of capital infrastructure and a mix of grant and primarily loan funds from IBA for operating, with Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR) grant funds also contributing to operating costs.<p>