2022: The Innovation Papers ~ Delivering a Functional NDIS eMarket
The Innovation Papers. Published by InnovationAus on 10 August 2022.
My paper is ‘Delivering a Functional NDIS eMarket’. PDF of the article can be found here.
I was one of forty Australian innovation leaders and thinkers invited to contribute a paper on the future of Australian jobs and industry, in the first publication of The Innovation Papers.
The Innovation Papers newspaper – an 80-page tabloid-sized collection of 40 engaging essays - of new ideas and new thinking to help shift government industry policy and to drive better social and economic outcomes for all Australians.
The 2011 Productivity Commission Report into Disability Care and Supports, which led to the establishment of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), identified the need for a NDIS eMarket to drive innovation across the economy, deeming this necessary for the scheme to scale and thrive.
That is, the eMarket was identified at the very beginning as essential for scheme sustainability.
Pursuing the same approaches that have failed for a century would not lead to changed outcomes.
However, notwithstanding the immense strategic and economic importance of the eMarket, the blistering politics around the NDIS would see the eMarket dumped.
In my opinion, this catastrophic void is one of the most serious impediments to scheme sustainability.
The NDIS eMarket remains the missing piece.
This NDIS eMarket project would be of such national significance that it should be considered as the next horizon of the NDIS: national, local and regional, with no one left behind. And, it is eminently achievable well within the first term of this government.
