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:
- Implementation of Commonwealth technology supplier E-Market solutions that provide an informational or transactional interface.
- 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.