Grant categories
Our Connecting Australia research shows a rise in Australian women bringing their ideas to the fore and starting their own businesses – and we want to help these savvy professionals to turn their dreams into reality .
You may be an entrepreneurial businesswoman in a regional area who uses digital innovation to not only expand market-reach, but drive community-led change.
You’ll also be a leader with a deep passion and drive to push for meaningful equality for women in regional and remote communities.
Research shows a long-term disparity in health outcomes between city and regional areas.
With this in mind, we're looking for businesses who are offering innovative digital health solutions with an aim of helping to improve healthcare access for regional and remote Australians, irrespective of where they live.
This could include how healthcare is delivered virtually, or how your business is helping to improve digital literacy with online health solutions including telehealth, electronic health records and e-prescriptions
The arts and cultural communities throughout regional Australia are brimming with people from all walks of life.
We’re looking for businesses run by artists and unique characters who continue to drive exciting content that has a positive impact on their local areas.
Businesses that are ready to show the way they use technology to bring their passion to life and engage with their audiences, both domestically and internationally.
With education for all ages becoming more accessible online and the pandemic forcing many of us to shift to digital and remote learning, the need for creative and inclusive educational opportunities has never been more important.
We're looking for progressive businesses who are providing flexible online learning options that are helping to redefine and futureproof regional and remote education.
Digital agriculture is the future of farming, with the potential to add $20.3 billion to the value of the Australian agriculture industry by the year 2030.
You may be an agribusiness with a technology focus, exploring new technologies and solutions for supply chains, livestock management, shared data analysis or bio-security, or you may have built an app to help connect local farms with the rest of world.
If this sounds like you, and you’re as familiar with a pixel as you are with a paddock – we want to see your application.
The pandemic has proven challenging for our local tourism and hospitality industries.
Through initiatives like the Innovate with nbn™ Grants Program, we’re doing what we can to get behind tech-savvy operators in the tourism sector.
We’re looking for established regional tourism specialists who embrace digital innovation to either help optimise their unique offering, or actively promote your region’s key attractions.
As an Indigenous business owner, you embrace innovation and have bold ideas on how to create solutions and find new ways to operate; all within the digital landscape.
You could be an Indigenous-owned enterprise, or a tech company that’s partnering with Indigenous remote communities - if you’ve used connected technology to bring your idea to life, we’d love to hear from you.
Our Connecting Australia research shows a rise in Australian women bringing their ideas to the fore and starting their own businesses – and we want to help these savvy professionals to turn their dreams into reality .
You may be an entrepreneurial businesswoman in a regional area who uses digital innovation to not only expand market-reach, but drive community-led change.
You’ll also be a leader with a deep passion and drive to push for meaningful equality for women in regional and remote communities.
Research shows a long-term disparity in health outcomes between city and regional areas.
With this in mind, we're looking for businesses who are offering innovative digital health solutions with an aim of helping to improve healthcare access for regional and remote Australians, irrespective of where they live.
This could include how healthcare is delivered virtually, or how your business is helping to improve digital literacy with online health solutions including telehealth, electronic health records and e-prescriptions
The arts and cultural communities throughout regional Australia are brimming with people from all walks of life.
We’re looking for businesses run by artists and unique characters who continue to drive exciting content that has a positive impact on their local areas.
Businesses that are ready to show the way they use technology to bring their passion to life and engage with their audiences, both domestically and internationally.
With education for all ages becoming more accessible online and the pandemic forcing many of us to shift to digital and remote learning, the need for creative and inclusive educational opportunities has never been more important.
We're looking for progressive businesses who are providing flexible online learning options that are helping to redefine and futureproof regional and remote education.
Digital agriculture is the future of farming, with the potential to add $20.3 billion to the value of the Australian agriculture industry by the year 2030.
You may be an agribusiness with a technology focus, exploring new technologies and solutions for supply chains, livestock management, shared data analysis or bio-security, or you may have built an app to help connect local farms with the rest of world.
If this sounds like you, and you’re as familiar with a pixel as you are with a paddock – we want to see your application.
The pandemic has proven challenging for our local tourism and hospitality industries.
Through initiatives like the Innovate with nbn™ Grants Program, we’re doing what we can to get behind tech-savvy operators in the tourism sector.
We’re looking for established regional tourism specialists who embrace digital innovation to either help optimise their unique offering, or actively promote your region’s key attractions.
As an Indigenous business owner, you embrace innovation and have bold ideas on how to create solutions and find new ways to operate; all within the digital landscape.
You could be an Indigenous-owned enterprise, or a tech company that’s partnering with Indigenous remote communities - if you’ve used connected technology to bring your idea to life, we’d love to hear from you.
Grants
5 x $10,000
Covering each of the segments:
- Health
- Arts
- Education
- Agriculture
- Tourism
$10,000
$10,000
$25,000
Champion Award
Applications
Applications closed on 30 November 2021.
Successful Grant recipients will be announced February 2022.
Innovate with nbn™ Grants Program partners:
nbn is commited to lifting the digital capability of Australia, helping Australians to have access to a fast, reliable broadband network.
Regional and remote communities across Australia are a priority for nbn, and in 2019 a dedicated business unit - nbn™ Regional & Remote – was created to help meet the needs of customers in rural and regional Australia, while aiming to raise the digital capability of these areas.
