Projects That will Not Be Supported
The auDA Foundation will not support the following types of projects or budgetary items:
- Projects for a religious, political or sectarian purpose;
- Requests for sponsorship;
- Endowments, memorials or named academic chairs;
- Conferences;
- Retrospective costs;
- Projects whose main focus is outside of Australia;
- General fundraising appeals; and/or
- General operational or administrative functions, including for example:
- firewalls,
- secure transaction functionality,
- online search functions, or
- intranets.
- Training proposals that provide generic IT training, (such as introduction into social networking or trading websites) rather than focusing specifically on Internet use that has a specific application relevant to the project;
- Website design (such as development of a new website or redesign of existing website) , rather than focusing specifically on delivery of the project using the website;
- Applications that will likely be established in direct opposition to existing commercial enterprises;
- Applications that replicate research currently being undertaken on a commercial basis;
- The provision of funds for overseas travel;
- Applications seeking IT equipment for general purpose training rooms; and/or
- Marketing or market research activities, even where that research is about website usage.