Saturday, 11 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 Australian government has launched a broadband laboratory at the University of Melbourne to help businesses explore online opportunities and test new service offerings over the National Broadband Network.
The Victorian Government has announced it will release US$2 ...
The Hon. Kate Lundy, Senator for the Australian Capital Territory ...
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.
Delegates at the FutureGov Forum Philippines this week (Tuesday 16th November) pushed for the revival of plans to build a dedicated data centre for government agencies.
Singapore’s National Environment Agency is introducing a new system to better manage the licensing, tenancy contracts and hygiene standards of 114 of the city state’s open-air food courts, better known as hawker centres.
The Saudi eGovernment transformation methodology was announced winner of the FutureGov Awards 2010 in the eGovernment Category for its work in guiding government agencies on the road to transformation. Category sponsor CrimsonLogic explained what it was looking for in a winner.
The government of Sri Lanka has set its sights on raising the ICT literacy of its citizenry to 75 per cent by 2016, the Secretary to the President declared at the FutureGov Forum Sri Lanka last week (Thursday 28th October).
Governments should publish all national budgets online and invite public participation in reviews of spending, according to a global survey into transparency.
Los Angeles (LA) County has the largest population of any county in the nation, with approximately 27 percent of California’s residents. If it were a country, LA County would be among the top 20 in the world as measured by GDP. The county’s budget is approximately $23 billion dollars, which goes toward providing social, health-related and law enforcement services.
Thailand’s Prime Minister was a surprise entry into the top ten list of world leaders on Twitter, according to rankings published by a think tank.
The full list of award winners from the 2010 FutureGov Awards, held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
Social media ranks high as a key tool in helping government organizations stay dynamic, Janice Fedak, Deputy CIO, Business, Management and Planning, Department of State, United States told over 200 public sector and industry thought leaders at the opening of the FutureGov Summit 2010.
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 ...