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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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Vivek Kundra joins Salesforce.com
Former US federal government CIO will be in charge of driving social, mobile and open cloud technologies for emerging markets
Funding cuts biggest challenge for govt CFOs: Visa survey
The poll of 100 top finance and procurement officials conducted ...
Queensland appoints first GCIO
Queensland, Australia’s third most populous state, has appointed a ...
22 November 2011 | News
HK appoints new GCIO
On 3 January, 2012 Daniel Lai, the former Head of IT in MTR Corporation, will be the fourth Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) of Hong Kong, following the successes of Stephen Mak, who has been standing in for the GCIO post since Jeremy Godfrey vacated the post February this year.
10 November 2011 | News
Wellington – the creative digital city
Wellington City Council has released a Digital Strategy and Action Plan, which sets an ambitious target – to achieve global recognition as a “creative digital city”.
4 August 2011 | News
US names new Federal CIO
Steven VanRoekel, former Managing Director at the Federal Communications Commission and former Microsoft executive, has been named to succeed Vivek Kundra as the new Federal Chief Information Officer.
3 August 2011 | News
Former UK govt CIO joins Huawei
John Suffolk, the former UK government Chief Information Officer, will join the Chinese telecommunication company Huawei as its Global Cyber Security Officer (GCSO).
29 July 2011 | News
Australian state to appoint CIO
The Queensland government has announced plans to create a state government Chief Information Officer role tasked with driving consistent IT outcomes across state departments and agencies. Until now, the CIO role had been carried out by the director general of Public Works.
21 June 2011 | Feature
World Economic Forum proposes new measurements for e-gov
Earlier this month, the World Economic Forum released a report called The Future of Government which identified shortcomings with the current methods of assessing e-government achievement by countries. The emphasis should shift from the “supply side” measures to ones that more accurately reflect the citizen experience. None of the current surveys use criteria that measure citizen satisfaction, and the report highlights three tools that are widely used to measure satisfaction – web analytics, customer views and customer experience replication.
17 June 2011 | News
US Federal CIO to step down in August
Vivek Kundra, the United States Federal Chief Information Officer, will step down in August this year, the Office of Management and Budget has confirmed. As CIO, Kundra oversaw $80 billion in federal information technology projects.
14 June 2011 | News
Vietnam aims to lead in e-government
Dr Nguyen Minh Hong, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Information and Communications, shares the government’s vision for 2020, concrete plans to achieve these objectives and the challenges ahead at FutureGov Forum Vietnam 2011.
1 June 2011 | News
Thailand government Open Data portal starts to build momentum
Thailand government open data portal contains information from a number of government agencies including the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Agriculture; it also includes additional Gov2.0 features such as a facility to request additional datasets, and a blog/discussion forum.
27 May 2011 | News
US identifies 78 systems for the cloud
Within one year, 25 US federal agencies would have migrated a total of 78 systems to the cloud, according to the Office of Management and Budget.
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