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The latest reports from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and Dun & Bradstreet bring little hope to Web developers in Australia. While end-user adoption of the Internet has increased, and more businesses have access, a large number of business owners appear to have little respect for the internet as a marketing and information tool.

The ABS report, Business Use of Information Technology 2000-2001, outlines increased business usage of the internet for email, searching, banking, and government services. But it also says that around 75% of Australian businesses do not have a site, and have no intentions of having one developed.

For larger companies only (100+ employees), it reports that 80% have a corporate site.

From the D&B poll of executives, around 50% of companies reported having a web site, but more than a third considered websites "not important". This figure has increased from previous polls.

Some further information can be found at Australian IT: Web not a business priority.

 

isaac

www.triplezero.com.au

Isaac is a designer from Adelaide, South Australia, where he has run Triplezero for almost a decade.

He was a member and administrator of evolt.org since its founding in 1998, designed the current site, and was a regular contributor on evolt.org's direction-setting discussion list, theforum.

On the side, he runs Opinion, Hoops SA, Confessions, Daily Male, and Comments, as well as maintaining a travel gallery at Bigtrip.org.

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