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Exhibit 1.2
Distribution of websites according to industrial classification
Other
Health and community services
Education
Communications services
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Mining
Transport and storage
Finance and insurance
Cultural and recreational services
Personal and other services
Manufacturing
Retail and wholesale trade
Property and business services
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
Source: John Street and Danielle Aeuckens, Results of a Survey: Electronic Commerce on the Internet,
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, 1999.
These results indicate that most Australian e-commerce sites are related to
key service sector activities. Taken at face value, in contrast to the ABS
capacity statistics, this data suggests that mining companies make up a
small proportion of those that have e-commerce sites in Australia. It
should be noted, however, that the study was preliminary in nature.
While providing some interesting insights, inference is limited by the fact
that only 790 domains were classified and that these were all sourced
from one directory. Furthermore, only .com.au domain names were
surveyed, under-representing industries with other domain suffixes
(that is .gov.au, .net.au, .edu.au).
Exhibit 1.3
Internet commerce by industrial classification (per cent)
Personal and other services
Cultural and
recreational services
Agriculture, forestry
and fishing
Manufacturing
Property and
business services
Wholesale trade
Retail trade
Accommodation,
cafes and restaurants
Finance and insurance
Transport and storage
Communications services
Source: John Street and Danielle Aeuckens, Results of a Survey: Electronic Commerce on the Internet,
Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, 1999.
Overall, there is little quantitative evidence to point to about differing
sectors’ use of e-commerce techniques in Australia at present, but the data
that is available generally points to services being significant users.
None of these surveys suggests any limits to the adoption of e-commerce,
or the nature of the potential benefits and other impacts. To do that it is
necessary to examine sectors on a case by case basis.
E-commerce intensive sectors
In order to capture areas where the largest impacts of e-commerce would
occur, sectors that are viewed as being intensive users or rapid adopters of
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