Thursday, 23 February 2012
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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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Taiwan to launch automated immigration gates in 2012
Come January 2012, passengers arriving at any of Taiwan’s three main airports will no longer have to wait and stand in long queues at the immigration control thanks to the new “E-gate” system that promises to speed up passenger clearance to roughly 12 seconds per individual.
US city tests “intelligent” traffic system
The City Government of Orlando recently started testing a new ...
NZ health boards install new analytics appliance
New Zealand healthAlliance have installed a new analytics appliance to ...
7 September 2011 | News
China National Bureau of Statistics upgrades “smart computing” system
The China National Bureau of Statistics Data Management Centre will soon embark on the second phase of the Smarter Computing business project that will deliver services faster, with higher quality and better economics.
18 August 2011 | News
US Defense develops social media science
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting research proposals in the area of “Social Media In Strategic Communication” to develop innovative approaches enabling revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems.
30 July 2011 | News
Singapore implements new vessel traffic information system
Minister for Transport and Second Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lui Tuck Yew, officially commissioned the new Port Operations Control Centre, equipped with a state-of-the-art Vessel Traffic Information System.
14 July 2011 | News
Searching through 360 million records in 1 second
The Nomura Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan now uses SAP HANA to process massive amounts of data in real time.
1 July 2011 | News
South Australia increases transparency in health
South Australia’s Health Minister, John Hill, recently announced the use of Business Intelligence Dashboard for Emergency Departments, enabling the public to see the status of emergency departments.
23 June 2011 | News
Thailand uses analytics to fight farm disasters
Thailand’s Agriculture Ministry designed an Agricultural Economics Operation Centre War room technology to detect natural disasters, monitor farm situations and give early warnings to possible affected areas.
23 May 2011 | News
Analytics consolidates hospital data in Australia
The Queensland Government’s health department upgraded the Queensland Health Hospital Performance site to simplify hospital performance data and make it more easily accessible for users.
23 May 2011 | News
Australia allocates A$61m for smart roads
The Federal Government released the 2011-12 budget allocation, providing $61.4 million to state governments over the next three years to fund smart road infrastructure aimed at cutting travel time and greenhouse gas emissions.
18 May 2011 | News
Government Efficiency Rankings: Hong Kong tops chart
A leading business school in Switzerland has released the results of its research in its “World Competitiveness Yearbook 2011”, which places Hong Kong at the top of government efficiency rankings, followed by Singapore and Switzerland.
10 May 2011 | News
Azerbaijan to use digital signatures for increased efficiency
The National Electronic Digital Signature has been recently presented by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies in Azerbaijan.
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Better learning with web 2.0 and virtual worlds
In a visit to Ngee Ann Secondary School yesterday (22 July), FutureGov found students deeply ...
Students take a green stance with social media
Ngee Ann Secondary School’s students are on a bid to “change the world” with ...
Will Facebook profiles replace govt web sites?
It’s all the rage for ministries and agencies to have a Facebook pages these ...