Australian Industry Minister, Ian Macfarlane, today announced Federal government innovation funding for a Woden company to market a unique software programme which brings multiple users together online.

TASKey will receive a $336,095 Commercial Ready grant for the software, which allows people to work securely together on complex activities, over the web, regardless of their location.

Mr Macfarlane said the novelty of the person-to-person technology is its ability to coordinate work across separate enterprises and to connect external individuals, such as consultants.

"It will provide web-based team collaboration by securely transferring critical data, reporting, and feedback in near real time so managers can effectively coordinate the tasks and teams involved," Mr Macfarlane said.

"Areas within the Australian Department of Defence have already installed TASKey TEAM and the product’s potential market includes other national and international public and private sector activities, as well as humanitarian aid and reconstruction projects."
[Contact: TASKey Pty Ltd, Dr Neil Miller 02 6296 1150]

TASKey is one of two companies in the ACT and 31 nation-wide sharing $17.8 million through the latest round of Australian government innovation funding.

Auraya Pty Ltd, of Bruce, will receive a $64,000 Commercialising Emerging Technologies (COMET) grant to bring to market its voice system for authenticating the identity of users using secure telephone and Internet services.

The product/service can be used to verify users accessing secure call centres, interactive voice response systems, speech recognition and Internet services.
[Contact: Auraya Ptd Ltd, Dr Clive Summerfield, 02 6201 5253]

View a list of the latest Commercial Ready grants.
View a list of the latest COMET grants.

Contact: Lisa Chalk, Minister's Office, 02 6277 7580 or 0409 476 619
             Warren Ludski, AusIndustry, 0419 271 132