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

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.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suffered a humiliating failure of its systems last August, which was largely attributed to its inability to manage security and operational risk of a key business system.

There is no point putting “lipstick on a pig” by implementing online transactional systems using tired backend infrastructure, says Ian Brightwell.

Kudos to the government for its open data movement. Government inhales massive amounts of data from every sector of the economy, and the dynamics of this data ingestion are about to significantly expand with the data retention legislation.