The example of the art gallery served to demonstrate that some businesses are more difficult to electronically enable than others. Centrebet is one of the most sophisticated examples of the application of internet technology to be found in Australia. The on-line sports betting industry particularly lent itself to electronic enablement. Instead of taking bets over the telephone and manually updating the odds, Centrebet has invested a significant amount of money in an email based betting system. Technology was being developed to automatically accept wagers which fell within certain parameters and direct large or unusual bets to a human operator who then decides whether to accept or reject the bet and email the customer back with the response.
Customers are able to use electronic banking facilities to pay in funds and check account balances.
Through linkages with banks offering fully electronic services, payouts can be made in any currency and any country in the world within 24 hours. The result is an increasingly paperless office relying almost entirely on the internet to communicate with clients, calculate odds and complete settlements. A substantial re-engineering of the firm's internal processes was required in order for the business to fit the parameters laid down by the internet. The meeting heard of the potential of the internet to produce jobs in the local area. Two examples of job creation through the internet stood out in the Alice Springs area.