WREDO is also supported by five major business enterprises operating in the western suburbs
of Melbourne: Australian Gas and Light Limited, City West Water, McGregor By Road,
Powercor Australia Limited, and the Urban and Regional Land Corporation.
The chapter describes the creation of the Bizewest Business-to-Business (B2B) Portal, and
WREDO??™s difficulty in persuading local businesses to change their ways sufficiently to adopt
and fully utilise the portal. It begins with WREDO applying for a government grant to set up
the portal, without much prior discussion on its purpose or value: it just seemed like a good
opportunity. Next we discuss the development problems WREDO experienced in setting up
the portal, and finally WREDO??™s attempts to get local SMEs to make use of the portal.
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Business-to-Business.Portal
In February, 2000, the Victorian State Treasurer announced a new government initiative known
as the Victorian E-Commerce Early Movers Scheme (VEEM). The scheme was designed to
provide assistance to local government to allow it to encourage small to medium enterprises
operating within their boundaries to use e-commerce for the purpose of expanding business
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