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• IBM and Vocus settle Census outage lawsuit

  IBM, Vocus and Vocus subsidiary Nextgen have settled a lawsuit relating to the high-profile failure of the Australian Census website in 2016.

• Australians downloading 1.7 exabytes a month

  The first of a new series of reports from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) detailing Internet usage confirms that downloads are continuing to soar. In the three months ended 31 December, Australians downloaded 5,061,987 terabytes of data according to figures compiled by the ACCC.

• ABS to host 2021 Census on AWS

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed that the online component of the 2021 Census will be hosted on Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) cloud.

• Budget 2019-20: Government seeks to avoid ‘censusfail’ redux

  The government says it will fund efforts by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) to avoid a repetition of the 2016 Census debacle, which involved a high-profile failure of its online component.

• ACCC prepares to gather more NBN data from telcos

  The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued new rules for Internet service providers (ISPs) that will require them to periodically hand over to the ACCC a range of data relating to services on their networks.

• Growth of mobile downloads outstrips fixed line, ABS finds

  The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Australians’ appetite for Internet services reveal — unsurprisingly — that downloads continue to soar, reaching more than 4.08 exabytes in the three months ending 30 June.

• ABS seeks to avoid #CensusFail 2.0

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics has begun its preparations for the 2021 Census, seeking a supplier to provide the online component of the national data-gathering exercise.

• Not enough Australian dial-up users to bother counting, ABS says

  Is it the end of an era or had the era already ended long ago? The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) twice a year releases its Internet Activity report, containing a host of information about how we access the Internet — and the latest edition featured a noticeable absence.

• Australian Bureau of Statistics CIO quits

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics has to find itself a new IT chief, with its chief information officer, Patrick Hadley, planning to retire in early March.

• ABS taps Accenture for $20m data capture transformation

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics has awarded a $19.9 million data acquisition contract to Accenture.

• Government has ‘botched’ Census explanation: Labor

  The government “has botched explaining changes to the upcoming Census, leading to significant community confusion and concern,” argues a statement issued this morning by shadow assistant treasurer Andrew Leigh.

• E-commerce sales worth $266.8 billion in 2014: ABS

  Australian businesses are benefiting from e-commerce with online sales bringing in a total of $266.8 billion in 2013-14, according to a new report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

• Budget 2015: $250m for IT upgrades at ABS

  The federal government has announced it will earmark $250 million over five years to upgrade aging IT systems at the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

• ABS seeks security software

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics is seeking to keep its security systems up to date, approaching the market seeking antivirus, firewall and device/USB control software.

• ABS develops Web service for users to create own population clock

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has developed a Web service or API, based on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural principle, that allows users to create their own population clock.