DEWHA to roll out phase two of sustainability portal

Will help support Australian Government ‘household behaviour change programs’

The Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) is to roll out phase two of its environmental sustainability web portal LivingGreener.gov.au.

According to tender documents, the portal is part of a suite of Government measures aimed at helping Australians overcome barriers to making their homes and activities more environmentally sustainable.

“The portal aims to provide information for living greener that is trusted and readily understood; engage and empower Australians to improve their efficiency in energy, water, waste and transport; improved access to government programs and information; encourage greater uptake of government assistance; and support Australian Government ‘household behaviour change programs’”, according to the documents.

Phase one of the web portal provided links to Federal Government websites and websites sponsored by the Australian Government.

Phase two of the site is underway and is focused on adding content, extending the target audience groups, adding functionality and linking to state, territory and local government web sites.

The next 18 months is expected to see several releases of new content about relevant state and territory government assistance, content to assist helps schools and small businesses and location specific information filtering.

Additional updates to the site are to include content about relevant local government assistance and new site functionality such as Web 2.0, collaboration and end-user stories.

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mark

Thu 14/01/2010 - 14:27

Hopefully Dewha can get the program up and runing for the green loans program which has been crashed for over 3 weeks now. 3000 home sustainability assessors have been out of work waiting for the program to be fixed. They haven't even made any announcements as to whats going on.....pure silence.

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jan withers

Wed 03/02/2010 - 17:38

i can not log on i am an assessor and have beenUNABLE TO WORK DUE TO THIS DISASTER. I CAN NOT SPEAK TO ANYONE I HAVE LEFT NUMEROUS MESSAGES AND NO RESPONSE. YOU WERE QUICK TO TAKE OUR MONEY AND MAKE PROMISES BUT NO ACTION ON YOUR PART MY NUMBER IS HO53141 MY PASSWORD IS NOT WORKING AND THE TEST QUESTION IS REDICULOUS WHAT IS IT PLEASE HELP, JAN 0419321383

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Peter Buckland

Thu 04/02/2010 - 17:07

Ever since Lucca Consulting created a new online portal over Christmas the site has failed miserably. I dont know how much they were paid for the site but there are very few parts of the webpage that even work and those that do cannot even do basic functions like sort data. Even a high school kid could have built a more functional website.

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jeff phillipson

Mon 08/02/2010 - 12:57

This is a joke
I cant get on to bet accredited to get work
It stinks of a rort by garrett

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