Applied Electronic Commerce (AEC) was incorporated January 1996.

AEC is a project management company operating at the National and International levels assisting accellerate e-commerce adoption and enablement by Australian industry and government, based on the open global standards as being established by UN/CEFACT.

AEC National and International Roles include:

• Head of Delegation for Australia to United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (UN/CEFACT), United Nation Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
• Head of Delegation for Australia Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (AFACT)
• Chairperson IT-033 e-Business Architecture and Data Exchange.
  (Standards Australia)
• Chairperson IT-034 Automatic Identification and Data Capture
  Techniques.(2005-2006) (Standards Australia)
• Chairperson and founding director Radio Frequency Identification Association of Australia (RFIDAA). (2005-2007) (MMV Vic. Govt)
• Chairperson (founding) and project manager of the UN/CEFACT Global Modelers Reference Initiative (MRI).(2005-2006) (UN/CEFACT)
• Chairperson of the UN/CEFACT business process analysis working group (TBG14) (UN/CEFACT)
• Project Manager BizDex Phase 2 project.(DCITA) (2006)
• Member CITeC: Communications IT and eCommerce Standards Sector Board (Standards Australia)
• AEC is an accredited GS1 Australia alliance partner