Our Clients...

Metis Internet Partners works with clients that have an enthusiasm for the internet extending beyond webpage visits and views. We work with clients that see the internet as a tool that can be utilised to extend their project or business brand and reach.

Below is a list of our current and past clients with some case studies to highlight our work.

Online store selling Aboriginal Art from Utopia

Eastern Desert Art

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Utopian Aboriginal Art is an Australian outback Aboriginal online art gallery representing the work of significant Aboriginal artists from the eastern desert and Utopia region (Angarapa) of central Australia, 250kms north east of Alice Springs. Utopian Aboriginal Art is proudly part of the Utopia community project initiative.

Visit Us: http://www.utopianaboriginalart.com.au

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Clean coal technology public company

White Energy Company

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White Energy Company Limited is a public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol WEC. White Energy is in the process of creating a diversified resource group with unique mining technology capabilities. White Energy's existing assets include
Coal Technology assets and Mineral Exploration assets. White Energy has the worldwide exclusive license to a patented coal upgrading technology (17 years of patent protection remaining) (“the White Technology”) that has been developed and refined over several years by CSIRO, the Australian government sponsored research organisation.

Visit Us: http://www.whiteenergyco.com

Pro Bono database development for leading humanitarian organisation

Australian Red Cross

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Since 1914 the Australian Red Cross has been responding to the needs of Australians in suburbs and towns right across the country.

Today the Australian Red Cross has more than 30,000 trained volunteers and delivers over 60 local programs and services around Australia mostly funded by public donation and corporate partnerships. The Australian Red Cross is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the largest humanitarian organisation in the world with more than 97 million volunteers worldwide.

Metis Internet Partners provides pro bono support to the Australian Red Cross in Alice Springs to ensure that their Meals on Wheels and health care management system and databases are able to meet the increasing demands of clients and funding agencies.

Permit processing and decision support for remote Aboriginal Land Council

Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council

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The Pitjantjatjara Lands cover approximately 103,000 square kilometres in Central Australia. The Pitjantjatjara Lands are known as punu puli country which means tree and stone country.

The communities of Amata, Fregon, Indulkana, Irintata Homelands, Kalka, Kaltjiti Homelands, Kanpi, Mimili, Murputja, Nyapari, Pipalyatjara, Pukatja, Tjurma Homelands, Turkey Bore, Umuwa, Watarru, Watinuma, Yunyarinyi, Aputula, Imanpa, Kaltukatjara and Mutitjulua make up the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands with the boundaries of communities determined by landform.

The Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council is responsible for overseeing the activities of the different groups and serves the people in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands. Visitors need a permit to enter the Pitjantjatjara Lands and usually visitors have connections with community members or are involved in business, through one of the many organisations working out here. After the contact fills out the permit form it is sent to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council for processing.

Metis Internet Partners worked with the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council to extend their existing permit management system. We had a series of consultations and undertook three stages of development which decreased the administration load on the council and expedited the processing of permits. Metis Internet Partners also developed a series of reports that allowed the council to make more effective management decisions and to identify risks and conflicts ealier.

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Information management consultancy for Aboriginal community controlled health service

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress

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Central Australian Aboriginal Congress was established in 1973 and has grown over 30 years to be one of the largest and oldest Aboriginal community controlled health services in the Northern Territory. Congress delivers primary health care services to the Aboriginal population of Alice Springs.

Metis Internet Partners was engaged by Congress to consult on the integration and implementation process of a records management system to improve data management and efficencies across the whole organisation.

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Website strategy for Aboriginal art peak body

Desart

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Desart is the Association of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres. Australian Aboriginal art is now recognised in both Australia and internationally as one of the world's most exciting art movements.

Desart member Art Centres are owned and managed by Aboriginal people in their own communities. Desart represents Art Centres which support these objectives:

Authenticity of artworks
100% returns to Aboriginal people and their organisations
Promotion of professional art practice and ethical dealingswith artists

Metis Internet Partners was engaged by Desart to rebrand their website. Metis Internet Partners created a three stage website strategy to inform the future direction of the Desart website.

Visit Us: http://www.desart.com.au

Systems integration for Aboriginal Art Centre

Julalikari Arts

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Julalikari Arts is situated in Tennant Creek. Julalikari Council Aboriginal Corporation operates the Julalikari Arts Centre under its CDEP programme. Julalikari Arts and Crafts was established in 1994 in response to the local Aboriginal women's requirements to do more meaningful work. There are currently 27 women working at the Arts Centre. Some of them have been painting for many years and others have just started.

Metis Internet Partners worked with Julalikari Arts to provide a content management system for their website and to integrate their online gallery with their art database. The project has allowed Julalikari Arts to be independent and manage their website with minimal effort, although the 500km's between Tennant Creek and Alice Springs caused plenty of headaches throughout the project.

Visit Us: http://www.julalikariarts.com/

IT Support for independent community school

Fitzroy Community School

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Founded in 1976, Fitzroy Community School operates in Brunswick Street North Fitzroy, in three terrace houses (595-599), opposite the Edinburgh Gardens. As well as following a normal academic curriculum, Fitzroy Community School provides many outings, camps, concerts and other outdoor activities. The school was founded to ensure that children develop confidence and communication skills.

The roll is kept to about 55 children, so that everybody knows everybody, and the school enjoys a community spirit. There is a personal atmosphere, rather than an institutional one. The classes are small and the curriculum is broad. Fitzroy Community School is an independent school. It has its own unique style of operation. It has a relaxed atmosphere and good outcomes at the same time. Children are keen on learning and keen on coming to school. Some years we have no turnover of families at all.

Metis Internet Partners worked with the Fitzroy Community School for four years providing IT and technical support, website development and school databases.

Visit Us: http://www.fcs.vic.edu.au

Gallery management advice for Alice Springs Cultural Precinct

Araluen Cultural Precinct

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The Alice Springs Cultural Precinct is home to some of the most interesting cultural and historical experiences in Alice Springs, encompassing performing and visual arts, the natural history of the region, Aboriginal art and culture and the more recent European settlement.

With seven registered Aboriginal sacred sites and trees of significance, the Precinct is an essential part of any visit to Central Australia.

Metis Internet Partners worked with the Araluen Centre for Arts and Entertainment to review and develop a strategy for their Art Gallery database.

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Online store with Australia's largest range of Aboriginal artworks

Central Art Aboriginal Art Store

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Central Art is located in the heartland of the Central Australian Desert and represents one of the largest online Aboriginal Art galleries in the world for contemporary Australian Central Desert and Aboriginal art. Central Art was established in 2004 by Sabine Haider and husband John McEwen with the encouragement of the Aboriginal Artist Ada Bird Petyarre, one of the famous Petyarre sisters from Utopia.

Metis Internet Partners is engaged by Central Art to provide strategic advice, project planning, project management and delivery of their new e-commerce website.

Visit Us: http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au

Alice Springs Aboriginal Mentoring Organisation

Footprints Forward

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Footprints Forward was created to assist in building the partnership between the business and Indigenous community, to create a better future for all people in Alice Springs. Footprints Forward works with young Indigenous people while they are still at school, then when they leave school to get themselves into a job or training, and sustain that opportunity. Footprints Forward Inc has a very strong mentoring component.

Metis Internet Partners has provided both commercial and pro-bono database development for Footprints Forward and has assisted with their compliance reporting and job search program.

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Community Aboriginal Art Centre south of Alice Springs

Titjikala Art Centre

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Titjikala Art Centre is located 120 kilometres south of Alice Springs, in Central Australia. Titjikala Art Centre is an Aboriginal owned and managed corporation that sells artwork on behalf of its members. Since its foundation Titjikala Art Centre has concentrated on developing the artistic abilities of its members. The Titjikala Art Centre produces paintings, batik, woodcarving, block printing on fabric and silk painting. The Titjikala artists are well known for wire sculptures of animals and birds.

Tijikala Art Centre has been using the Aboriginal Art Centre Database since 2005. Metis Internet Partners has also worked with the Tijikala Art Centre on internet strategy.

Information source for Respiratory Medicine department

Royal Melbourne Hospital Respiratory Ward

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The Department of Respiratory Medicine provides general respiratory services to inpatients and outpatients, including respiratory function assessment, fibreoptic bronchoscopy, sleep monitoring, lung oncology as well as clinical management of all respiratory disorders. Respiratory Medicine outpatient clinics are held weekly.

Metis Internet Partners developed an intranet for the Department of Respiratory Medicine and an outpatient database.

Species management for Olive Pink Botanic Garden

Olive Pink Botanical Garden

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Founded in 1956 by the legendary Miss Olive Pink, the Olive Pink Botanic Garden features a diverse collection of over 250 species of Central Australian plants, excellent birdwatching and self-guided walks. The Garden opened to the public in 1985 as the Olive Pink Flora Reserve, and was renamed Olive Pink Botanic Garden in 1996. The Garden is managed by a voluntary Board of Trustees which has employed a succession of Curators to manage the expanding plantings and visitor’s experience of the Reserve.

Metis Internet Partners restructured, redeveloped and provided strategic advice on the Olive Pink Botanic Garden Plant Database.

Online store for complete systematic phonics program

Fitzroy Programs

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Fitzroy Programs offers a range of literacy materials.These materials form a complete systematic phonics program, aimed at the primary school level, as well as secondary revision. The creators of the Fitzroy Literacy Program are Philip O'Carroll and Faye Berryman, founders of the Fitzroy Community School.

Metis Internet Partners worked with Fitzroy Programs developing IT strategies, scopiong and developing a successful online store selling phonic readers and providing internet strategy.

Visit Us: http://www.fitzprog.com.au

Internet strategy for private investment company

Hunter Bay Partners

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Hunter Bay Partners is a private investment company with a primary focus in investing in the food and beverage sector. Hunter Bay also has interests in the mining sector through its involvement with the ASX listed White Energy Company (ASX: WEC). Hunter Bay's primary objective is to develop, invest in and/or manage businesses that own quality food and beverage brands.

Metis Internet Partners has worked with Hunter Bay Partners over six years to develop a series of proposals, strategies, websites and online analysis.

Visit Us: http://www.hunterbay.com.au/

Information management for for Desert Research Organisation

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre

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The Desert Knowledge CRC is a research and brokerage institution that links researchers with 27 partners. The Desert Knowledge CRC focuses these research efforts on creating useful outcomes with commercial application for desert people, communities and our partners. These partners provide in-kind and cash support to the Desert Knowledge CRC.

The Desert Knowledge CRC exists to:

Provide sustainable livelihoods for desert people that are based on natural resource and service enterprise opportunities that are environmentally and socially appropriate
Encourage sustainable remote desert settlements that support the presence of desert people, particularly remote Aboriginal communities, as a result of improved and efficient governance and access to services
Foster thriving desert regional economies that are based on desert competitive advantages, bringing together Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities, government and industry and
Apply social science insights into governance, human capacity and the design of appropriate institutions to all these outcomes.

Metis Internet Partners has worked with the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre for two years. David Atkinson has been with the Cooperative Research Centre during this period in a leadership role. Metis Internet Partners has also run a major strategic website redevelopment for the Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre and developed a series of databases.

Community Aboriginal Art Centre in Alice Springs

Irrkerlantye Arts

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Irrkerlantye Arts is a group of Eastern Arrernte and Central Arrernte women and young men artists living in Alice Springs. Since 1999 Irrkerlantye Arts has held many successful exhibitions in Alice Springs showcasing a range of work including paintings, prints, sculpture, ceramics and fabric. The art centre started in a small room with barely enough space to squeeze between the table and the wall, often students would have to work outside due to the lack of space.

Irrkerlantye Arts has been using the Aboriginal Art Centre Database web export function since 2005. Metis Internet Partners has also worked with the Irrkerlantye Arts on internet strategy and in 2007 Irrkerlantye Arts started using the Aboriginal Art Centre Database.

Aboriginal Art Centre Database for Town Camps Art Centre

Tangentyere Artists

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Tangentyere Council’s inaugural town camp exhibition, and their new art centre, Tangentyere Artists, was opened in March at the Araluen Centre.

The art exhibition showcased the wealth of talent and ability of Tangentyere Town Camp artists. Their work ranges from highly accomplished to new and emerging artists that reflect the diversity of language groups and talents across the town camps.

Tangentyere Artists have been using the Aboriginal Art Centre Database since 2005.

Community Aboriginal Art Centre in Alice Springs

Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra - Many Hands Art Centre

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Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra, the Many Hands Art Centre is situated in the township of Alice Springs and has been established to provide a place for Western Arunda Artists to come together to paint, share and learn new techniques and ideas.

The Many Hands Art Centre was established to preserve the ‘Hermansburg school of Art’ including the works of Albert Namatjira and his descendants. The Art Centre has many water colour artists and traditional dot painters living in the Alice Springs area. Its aim is to create not only a place where artists can gather and socialise but also pass on cultural knowledge with an emphasis on encouraging young artists to explore their talent.

The Many Hands Art Centre has been using the Aboriginal Art Centre Database since 2005. Metis Internet Partners has also worked with the Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra on internet strategy using the Aboriginal Art Centre Database website export.

Recommended Resources: Tangentyere Artists Irrkerlantye Arts Titjikala Art Centre

Elliat Rich Design website

Elliat Rich Design

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Elliat Rich is a multi-disciplinary designer based in Alice Springs, Australia. Born in Paris in 1978, Elliat moved to Burma with her parents and then to Canberra in 1984. Before, during and after her Bachelor of Design at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Elliat travelled extensively throughout rural and remote Australia, both by road and on foot with teams of pack animals. Elliat draws strongly on her experiences to influence her practice. Elliat completed her degree with first class honours in 2005. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally. She recently finished working as a designer with Indigenous communities for The Centre for Appropriate Technology in Alice Springs.

Metis Internet Partners has worked with Elliat Rich for two years and built a content management system for Elliat to manage her personal and professional website.

Visit Us: http://www.elliatrich.com

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Our Clients...

Online store selling Aboriginal Art from Utopia

Eastern Desert Art

Clean coal technology public company

White Energy Company

Pro Bono database development for leading humanitarian organisation

Australian Red Cross

Permit processing and decision support for remote Aboriginal Land Council

Anangu Pitjantjatjara Land Council

Information management consultancy for Aboriginal community controlled health service

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress

Website strategy for Aboriginal art peak body

Desart

Systems integration for Aboriginal Art Centre

Julalikari Arts

IT Support for independent community school

Fitzroy Community School

Gallery management advice for Alice Springs Cultural Precinct

Araluen Cultural Precinct

Online store with Australia's largest range of Aboriginal artworks

Central Art Aboriginal Art Store

Alice Springs Aboriginal Mentoring Organisation

Footprints Forward

Community Aboriginal Art Centre south of Alice Springs

Titjikala Art Centre

Information source for Respiratory Medicine department

Royal Melbourne Hospital Respiratory Ward

Species management for Olive Pink Botanic Garden

Olive Pink Botanical Garden

Online store for complete systematic phonics program

Fitzroy Programs

Internet strategy for private investment company

Hunter Bay Partners

Information management for for Desert Research Organisation

Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre

Community Aboriginal Art Centre in Alice Springs

Irrkerlantye Arts

Aboriginal Art Centre Database for Town Camps Art Centre

Tangentyere Artists

Community Aboriginal Art Centre in Alice Springs

Ngurratjuta Iltja Ntjarra - Many Hands Art Centre

Elliat Rich Design website

Elliat Rich Design

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