M & S Consultants Pty Ltd   specialise  in  the provision of distance education and conferencing software. Our core product is REACT or Remote Education And Conferencing Tool which was developed in-house.  REACT is an award-winning dynamic, interactive and collaborative software program designed to meet the educational, training and conferencing needs of geographically dispersed people.

We are based in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia (NT) where distance education is the only option for many isolated students.  REACT is the software of choice for the NT Department of Education & Training (NTDET) for the delivery of Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) lessons to their students.  The Schools of the Air in the NT - arguably the largest classroom in the world covering an area of 1,000,000 square miles use REACT as their key delivery mechanism for all their students.

Other key educational clients include the Charles Darwin University (NT), the University of the South Pacific and the Ministry of Education in Fiji.

REACT also provides an innovative video-conferencing solution where you can attend meetings without leaving the comfort of your desk, just by using your laptop or desktop computers.  This eliminates the need to book meeting rooms or buy expensive video-conferencing equipment.  The NTDET use REACT for their video-conferencing needs as do the NT Justice Department.

REACT is unique in that it is designed to run over not only terrestrial communication networks but is optimised for use over satellite communication networks, which are often the basis for remote communications.  Issues inherent in satellite such as latency problems have been overcome by the skilful use of appropriate technologies.  The software is also scalable ensuring efficiency and optimum performance.

Although only launched onto the market in 2005, REACT quickly won awards for its innovation, performance and potential.  In the same year, the software won the NT Information Communication Technology Award and later won the prestigeous Australian Consensus Software Award in 2006.