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E-markets

Definition

E-Markets are systems or platforms that digitally connect or link users to the provisioning of products or services. E-Markets can facilitate the following types of interactions:

  • Businesses to Individuals
  • Businesses to Businesses
  • Businesses to Government
  • Individuals to Businesses
  • Individuals to Individuals
  • Individuals to Government

E-Markets involve the use of digital platforms, technologies, and services to avail products and services in a virtual marketplace.

Purpose

E-Markets provide crucial bridges between product/service providers and consumers, enabling a multitude of transactions and engagements in the many and varied manners enabled by Commonwealth entities.

The capability of E-Markets is realised through:

  1. Implementation of Commonwealth technology supplier E-Market solutions that provide an informational or transactional interface.
  2. Development and deployment of Commonwealth E-Market applications by platform owners, typically Commonwealth entities responsible for platform development and maintenance.

Objective

The objectives of this Australian Government Architecture (AGA) content are to:

  • establish and implement consistent standards or designs for the implementation of E-Markets
  • maximise the reuse of other existing core systems when implementing new E-Market solutions
  • establish whole-of-government (WofG) arrangements for E-Market solutions.

Whole-of-Government Applicability

The Government may facilitate, for the benefits of the populace, E-Market interactions in line with the missions of individual entities. E-Market solutions contribute to the seamless delivery of government services by:

  • ensuring E-Markets are accessible and inclusive, providing services to the entirety of the population in line with varied needs
  • leveraging multiple-entity shared services arrangements (business process, platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service)
  • reusing commercial engagements for E-Market supply, including WofG procurement arrangements
  • reusing existing E-Market designs identified on the AGA website
  • replicating and redeploying proven technology platforms, data ontologies, and development approaches.
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