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Tax and Revenue Management: A government’s lifeblood

IT has provided the opportunities for governments to remodel the entire process of tax collection over the last decade. It is, however, a continuously evolving process and governments the world over need to constantly upgrade their tax systems to optimise their revenue workflows.

Unlocking Public Value

A recent SAP study confirmed that those organisations which adopt best practices in the areas of scope and adoption, process standardisation, technology and customer governance, do perform better, and do so as their best practice maturity increases.

Governments and Socialising

The advent of social media has seen governments hopping onto the bandwagon in a bid to further engage citizens.

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Student & faculty demand top driver for university IT

Singapore’s higher education CIOs gather to discuss about transforming student experience

NZ App virtually reconstructs pre-quake city

Staff and students from the University of Canterbury have developed ...

Indonesian Province Launches IT Literacy Programme

Riau provincial government in central Sumatra has initiated a programme ...

29 November 2011 | News

Polytechnic in Singapore to deploy campus-wide virtualisation

To enable learning beyond the classroom, Temasek Polytechnic, a tertiary institute with 15,000 students, is deploying a virtual desktop infrastructure from a single unified computing system.

23 November 2011 | News

Australia education agency implements managed print services

The NSW Department of Education and Communities has signed a Managed Print Services contract to support DEC’s campuses across New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state.

23 November 2011 | News

The Philippines trains teachers in computer labs management

6 State Universities and Colleges spearheaded this year’s iSchools PC Recycling 2.0 roll-outs—organised by the Department of Science and Technology—in the Philippines where 136 participants learnt to manage and maintain their schools’ computer laboratories.

17 November 2011 | News

Nepal to have education ICT masterplan

By the end of 2011, Nepal’s Ministry of Education is expected to put out an ICT in Education Masterplan with UNESCO’s support.

16 November 2011 | News

SINGAPORE POLYTECHNIC to LAUNCH ‘CYBERWATCH COMPETENCY CENTRE’

The region’s first centre exclusively dedicated to training students in cyber-warfare and cybersecurity skills within a tertiary institute will start operations in April 2012.

26 October 2011 | News

India university trains staff in online literacy

Faculty and staff of one of India’s oldest universities, Panjab University in the city of Chandigarh, will receive online literacy training so the campus can move incorporate e-learning and other digital education tools.

25 October 2011 | News

Korea embarks on SMART Education route

Korea released its SMART Education strategy in September 2011, a route meant to take the country away from traditional teaching and learning methods with plans to digitise textbooks, build a cloud network, and retrain teachers.

20 October 2011 | News

Singapore tertiary institute to save US$196K with cloud

Singapore Polytechnic on 7 October launched an educational cloud computing datacentre called SPE3C3 and is expecting to save US$196,000 every two years, said Steven Chew Lai Keat, Senior Lecturer from the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

6 October 2011 | News

Singapore tertiary institute launches cloud datacentre

Singapore Polytechnic, a tertiary institute of 15,000 students, is launching SPE3C3—a next generation educational cloud computing datacentre—tomorrow, 7 October 2011.

5 October 2011 | Interview

FutureGov Education Awards 2011: Driving Innovation and Development

Shane Tyrell, Sales Director – Managed Enterprise Solutions, Imaging and Printing Group Asia Pacific and Japan, Hewlett Packard, shares about the importance of education in driving economies in the Asia Pacific region, the increasing role of innovation in education IT, and what we can expect from the FutureGov Education Awards 2011.

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