Many Australians were unable to complete the Census on August 9 due to the Census website failing. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) chief statistician has blamed a deliberate ‘denial of service attack’ for the failure. Like many government information systems, the Census site was outsourced to an external contractor: IBM. As well as writing...

Last night, the national census ended in disaster, after the Australian Bureau of Statistics website crashed, leaving millions of frustrated people unable to lodge their census forms. The bureau's chief statistician, David Kalisch, says the site was taken down after four separate cyber attacks from overseas. The federal government had earlier dismissed concerns about the...

Former head of the United Kingdom's Government Digital Service, Mike Bracken, argues that the third wave of digital transformation will force old fashioned structures and systems of government to give way to platforms that can deal with an increasingly uncertain future, including the new era of big data.

This Implementation Report outlines the outputs and initiatives that have been undertaken to meet the recommendations of the Public Sector Data Management Report (2015).

These are the official New Zealand Government guidelines to provide clarity on how government agencies can make their software open source. Government agencies invest significantly in software development and often own the copyright in the software that they develop or that is developed for them. Public sharing and the licensing of this government-owned software under...