📋 Tender Overview
- Six local innovators receive 25000 grants - Recipients gain unique insight into WA Government location data products policies and processes - Gnulli Native Title Working Group to use grant to pilot a cultural mapping tool Six local innovators have scooped up 25000 each as part of the SPUR Location Technology Accelerator program including a Native Title working group that is developing a cultural mapping tool.Gnulli Native Title Working Group have received the SPUR Location Technology Accelerator First Nations grant funded by the Department of Finance.The Gnulli people are stewards of the extraordinary biological cultural and linguistic diversity of the Gnulli Native Title determined area and are important leaders and partners in its conservation development and protection activities.The Working Group will use the grant to pilot a cultural mapping tool to create employment education and commercial business opportunities for the Traditional Owners in the Gascoyne Pilbara Region of Western Australia.The mapping tool a Geographical Information System GIS will be used for capturing storing checking and displaying data related to positions in the Gnulli determination area.The project will safeguard culture build awareness of the heritage values of the area and support the emergence of dynamic and creative Gnulli commercial industries.Other 2020 SPUR program recipients includeMarkrSite Validator uDrewSpaceDraftDigital Twin Linear Asset Inspection Airscope and4D Digital Twin for Urban Heat Islands. The SPUR program is delivered through a collaborative partnership between Landgate Department of Finance Department of Local Government Sport and Cultural Industries DevelopmentWA and Curtin University.Applicants were required to demonstrate how their product or service uses emerging technologies and location data to add value to the land and property sector.For more information about Landgates SPUR Location Technology Accelerator program and the latest grant recipients visit httpswww.landgate.wa.gov.auComments attributed to Lands Minister Ben WyattThrough Landgates SPUR Location Technology Accelerator program the McGowan Government is helping to accelerate ideas into action and support start-up businesses.The grants will be distributed to such a talented pool of innovators who are a testament to the innovative spirit of Western Australians. The McGowan Government is proud to support our brilliant innovators whose work benefits the community and contributes to the Western Australian economy.The SPUR Location Technology Accelerator program is an excellent example of cross government collaboration to support local entrepreneurs and researchers in an emerging field.
