Digital Regions Initiative Stakeholders Meeting 30/04/09

Today we attended a meeting to discuss the DRI funding made available by the Federal Government. The DRI funding is an extension of the Clever Networks program that current funds my position and we were hoping that there would still be further funding made available to continue educating non profits on broadband technology. Sadly the grants require a 50/50 investment with a minimum of $2 million buy in. This puts all non profits within South Australia out of contention and basically ends the program. We will continue to source other funding but at this stage the project will end on the 31st October 2009.