Thursday, 23 February 2012
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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.
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.
The advent of social media has seen governments hopping onto the bandwagon in a bid to further engage citizens.
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The Geographic Information Systems Research Centre of Feng Chia University in Taiwan, has successfully completed Taiwan’s first municipal works cloud-based map platform, which will allow city government officials and policy makers to have a clear picture of the city’s major construction projects.
The map that shows the height of land across Singapore ...
The service, “world-first” according to the country’s Federal Minister ...
The World Bank and the Embassy of New Zealand are collaborating with Vietnam’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to develop the most complete and modern land management system, in an effort to increase access to land information services by all stakeholders.
India’s National Capital police force has recently launched an e-crime initiative on its website that will allow residents to have better involvement in policing and public safety.
The Forest Utilisation Monitoring Centre located in West Papua, Indonesia, has unveiled plans to develop a forest and ecological GIS solution for its long-term ecological research for sustainable forestry management.
The data standards and data policies include the information on Geographic Information System data structures for the project, and the data sharing policy and responsibilities of the members and other end-users of the GIS data.
Staff and students from the University of Canterbury have developed a free “augmented reality” smartphone app called CityViewAR that allows users to see Christchurch city as it was before the earthquake.
The Department of Environmental Protection of Yilan county has developed a GIS application that will help local authorities monitor and control environmental pollution in the county.
A new soil mapping facility will be established in order to respond to the need for more valuable information needed to manage Australia’s vast landscapes and ecosystems.
Given the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association’s pro-active role as both initiator and advocator of SDI developments worldwide, Prof Abbas Rajabifard, President of GSDI, shares with FutureGov how GSDI is helping societies and governments to be spatially enabled.
The Gujarat Government is implementing a Geospatial Information System development project to better improve coastal zone management practices in the state.
The Ministry of Information and Communications Technology introduced an online mapping application in order to give users up-to-date and detailed information on the current situation of the flooding in Thailand, and to also help local authorities develop future plans for better flood management.
In a visit to Ngee Ann Secondary School yesterday (22 July), FutureGov found students deeply ...
Ngee Ann Secondary School’s students are on a bid to “change the world” with ...
It’s all the rage for ministries and agencies to have a Facebook pages these ...