[LINK] ICT in the Australian Economy, 17 November 2006, Canberra

[Tom Worthington]

ABS are holding a free seminar on how they measure the role of ICT in 
the Australian economy (all welcome):

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Australian Bureau of Statistics

ESG Seminar Series

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)  Satellite Account: 
Concepts, Key Results and Uses

Presenters:   Siddhartha De, Peter Comisari, Judith Winternitz (DCITA)

10.30 am - 11.30 am
Friday 17 November 2006
Knibbs Auditorium, ABS House, Canberra

ABSTRACT

Information and communication technologies play and important role in 
the way in which we live and do business.  There is considerable 
interest in the role of ICT as a significant driver of socioeconomic 
development, for example, in the way that ICT has allowed business to 
increase productivity.  For the official statisticians, the 
measurement of these technologies provides significant conceptual and 
measurement challenges.  A key part of the ABS response to these 
challenges has been the development of an ICT satellite account for 
Australia for 2002-03.

In this seminar Peter Comisari will describe the ICT satellite 
account.  He will outline the conceptual framework for the account, 
describe some of the difficult methodological issues that arose in 
the compilation of the account, and highlight key 
results.  Siddhartha De will summarise how industry groups have used 
the information.  Following this staff from DCITA, led by Dr Judith 
Winternitz, General Manager, Research, Statistics and Technology 
Branch, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the 
Arts [DCITA], will provide a session on the use of the ICT satellite 
account from a policy perspective.

Details: siddhartha.de at abs.gov.au
Web: http://www.abs.gov.au/

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More on the ICT  Satellite Accounts  in my Blog: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2006/03/ict-statistics-reference-group-meeting.html>.



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