29 May 2012 | News

Vietnam to digitise 60 per cent of state documents by 2015

60 per cent of official documents and materials exchanged between state agencies will be in electronic format by 2015, according to instruction number 15/CT-TTg issued by the Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on May 22.

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29 March 2012 | News

Singapore Parliament Implements automated content proceedings.

The Singapore Parliament adopted an automated Content Management and Delivery system to record the parliament proceedings.

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27 March 2012 | News

Singapore selects consortia for paperless airfreight

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) selected three consortia on March 15, 2012 to manage paperless airfreight processs as part of the e-freight@Singapore programme.

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10 February 2012 | News

Australia boosts green government credentials

Australia boosts green credentials under AUD$100 million carbon capture and storage project

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30 January 2012 | News

China to pilot emissions trading system

China will test a provincial emissions trading system next year with the help from the Asian Development Bank, paving the way for a national scheme and lower greenhouse gas emissions in the country.

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13 January 2012 | News

South Australia Enables Vehicle Registration Via Smartphones

The government of South Australia has launched a smartphone app for its vehicle registration portal, EzyReg, to enable users to register and look up vehicle registration on the Apple and Android platforms.

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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”.

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1 November 2011 | News

Malaysia: Smart City-Smart Village scheme to bring US$30.6 bil

Malaysia is introducing a Smart City-Smart Village initiative expected to contribute RM 95 billion (US$30.6 billion) to the national economy by 2020.

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3 October 2011 | News

Philippine province goes paperless

The province of Leyte in the central part of The Philippines is now using a paperless system that helps government officials improve operations for public accountability and transparency.

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14 September 2011 | Spotlight

Celebrating Asia's best practices in green government

Graham Rough, Head of Regional Marketing Strategy of Fuji Xerox Asia Pacific, explains trends in greening the government and why the company is sponsoring the Green Government category of FutureGov Awards for the third year.

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