Challenge

Solution

HoustonKemp was selected under the government’s prestigious Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) to undertake a feasibility study in response to a challenge identified by AUSTRAC and the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC).

Constant Software Consulting was engaged to meet the challenge of developing a solution to enable the dissemination, tracking and valuing of information shared between intelligence organisations. The solution needed to be flexible and adaptable, without the need for central administration, to facilitate implementation amongst organisations with different information sharing protocols and processes.

Constant led the project team at HoustonKemp to develop the solution “Infofox”. The platform addresses current impediments to collaboration and information sharing of sensitive information by providing users with the tools to enforce legal and business specific information sharing protocols, while giving organisations feedback on information performance, topic priorities and flows.

The secure information collaboration platform was built specifically for financial intelligence units, law enforcement and governments and has the capacity to be adopted by other organisations and sectors that place a high value on security and integrity of information sharing and collaboration.

Constant contributed in setting up the initial front-end of the system, drove project ideation and road-map planning and exposed APIs from Blockchain.

By keeping an immutable record of inter-organisation information sharing and communication flows, powered by blockchain technology, InfoFox provides organisations with confidence that information will be used appropriately, thereby strengthened the sharing of information.

InfoFox allows organisations to:

• Create a secure shared information resource for analysts

• Establish information workspaces to support cross agency taskforces

• Continue to control sensitive information within their own sharing server and using their own business processes and information sharing protocols

• Monitor performance of information sharing and priority topics, and

• Audit records or information flows between organisations and users.

These features are achieved without the need to create a central information warehouse and so passing control of sensitive information to a third party, or to change existing information sharing protocols or processes.

InfoFox will soon be adopted by a number of organisations to facilitate information sharing and collaboration with sensitive information.