New Partnership For AKA and Speedway Australia

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The Australian Karting Association (AKA) has reached an agreement with Speedway Australia for the controlling body of speedway racing to purchase a licence to use the AKA’s electronic licencing system.

Under the initial ten year, six-figure, arrangement, Speedway Australia will be able to offer online licencing applications to all of its members across the country.

AKA National Treasurer, Max Laybutt, who has been instrumental in the development of the AKA’s online licencing system, believes this arrangement is a significant step forward for the system.

“For the past five years the AKA and JPC Engineering, through their IT arm ThoughtPatterns, have worked closely to build a licencing system which not only works for the AKA but is also attractive to other similar governing bodies across the world,” said Laybutt.

“Speedway Australia researched the options available for an online licencing system and found that the AKA CM:S system is the one that will best suit their needs.

“I’d hope that this is the start of a long-term relationships with Speedway Australia. The board members have already indicated that there is a possibility that they may be interested in purchasing a licence for use of the race management and timing sections of our system in the future.

“A number of other sporting organisations are also discussing the installation of the AKA CM:S system as their means of licencing. As the CM:S has been constructed for flexibility then it is more than suitable, for not just motor based sports but basically any sport that needs to keep track of its membership”

Speedway Australia General Manager Dale Gilson reiterated Laybutt’s comments and is looking forward to provide some great benefits for the Association’s members.

“As an Association we are always looking for ways to provide more benefits to our members and one of the areas we identified that we were lacking in was our old manual licencing system,” said Gilson.

“We researched the options for either building a licencing system from scratch or finding one that we could ‘plug and play’ to suit our needs – which is what we’ve found in the form of the AKA system.

“The system has already started to be rolled out to our membership renewals and we have immediately received some positive feedback.”

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