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Seoul tops global cities ranking for e-govt
The South Korean capital of Seoul is the world’s most advanced municipal e-government, according to a global survey of city web sites. The “Soul of Asia” topped the UN-sponsored table ahead of Prague, Hong Kong, New York and Singapore on the usability, content, services, privacy and inclusiveness of its online operations.
Digital Inclusion
Sabah government’s first major digital inclusion project
Malaysia’s second largest state, Sabah, announced its first major ...
Central Government
Asian E-Government in 2010
FutureGov announces the availability of a new report Asian E-government ...
12 July 2010 | Feature
Should policy be debated in social media?
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez recently appointed 200 people to read through the 50,000 messages he has received from his 250,000 followers since he opened a Twitter account. His critics complain that the rambunctious President should spend less time tweeting and more time trying to solve the country’s problems. But are the two …
12 July 2010 | News
Green growth is key to city’s success, says Busan Mayor
“The number one measure of a successful city is environmental sustainability,” Vice Mayor Jeong Lak-hyong of Busan Metropolitan City told FutureGov in an exclusive interview.
6 July 2010 | News
Citizen engagement top priority for Yokohama Mayor
Citizen engagement, economic growth and quality of life are the key ingredients to a successful city, Fumiko Hayashi, Mayor of Yokohama, Japan told FutureGov in an interview.
4 July 2010 | Interview
Chongqing Mayor reveals plans to combat economic crisis
In an interview with FutureGov last week, the Mayor of Chongqing, a metropolis of 32 million people in southwest China, shared his plans to tackle what he sees as the city’s biggest challenge: sustaining a rocketing economy and managing a widening income gap between urban rich and rural poor.
1 July 2010 | News
China info chief hails smart city project
Guangzhou is investing RMB100 million (US$15 million) annually in new technologies as part of a plan to develop into a ‘smart’ city. The ‘Intelligent Guangzhou’ project will see ‘internet of things’ applications designed, manufactured and deployed across the city - China’s third largest - with a major roll-out expected by 2013.
31 May 2010 | News
Japan to help India build green cities
India has hatched plans to build state-of-the-art, eco-friendly habitats with world-class facilities with the help of Japanese technology firms. The likes of Hitachi, Mitsubishi, JGC Corp and Toshiba will design and build the eco-friendly towns along the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC), passing through six Indian states.
27 May 2010 | Research
Study shows innovation partnerships produce growth
Synopsis of an econometric study of macroeconomic effects in 15 economies in the Asia Pacific region
21 May 2010 | News
World City Prize winner revealed
The inaugural Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize has been awarded to Bilbao. The Spanish city famous for the Guggenheim art museum was picked from 78 nominations from 32 countries for a “knowledge revolution” that transformed a fading post-industrial city into a vibrant culture and business hub.
18 May 2010 | News
Chinese city deploys 4G wireless for smart enforcement
The east coast Chinese city of Ningbo is investing 600 million yuan (US$xx million) in a forth generation wireless communications network that it hopes will make the municipality’s emergency services more efficient and pave the way for ‘smart law enforcement’.
10 May 2010 | News
Indian state reaches poor via mobile phone
The state of Rajasthan in northern India has launched an e-governance initiative that aims to communicate essential information to the underprivileged via mobile phones. The system incorporates data migration, text-to-speech conversion in local languages, automatic dialing, and voice message transmission.
5 May 2010 | Interview
India: role model for govt transformation
India’s government is transforming apace. Since the introduction of the National e-Governance Plan in 2006 it has leapfrogged into a new era of governance. The world’s largest democracy still faces many challenges, but great opportunities lie ahead.
21 April 2010 | Interview
China's silo-busting CIO
Liu Huijun is one of the most widely respected CIOs in China. The Deputy Secretary General of Qingdao Municipal Government reveals to Wang Zhen how his city’s e-government endeavours have blazed a trail for others to follow.
20 April 2010 | News
Washington fraud-busters turn to social analytics
Faced with a US$1.8 billion budget deficit plus staff cuts and pay freezes in the civil service, losing millions to fraud is the last thing the state of Washington needs. In an interview with FutureGov in Seattle last week, fraud detection agents from Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) revealed how social networking business analytics is curbing the rise of compensation cheats.
9 April 2010 | News
Korea exports e-government model to Japan
One hundred years after South Korea adopted Japan’s administrative system under colonial rule, Korea has struck an historic deal to sell its e-government model to Japan. In an interview with FutureGov, a leading Korean academic in public administration said the deal marked a shift for Korea “from playing catch-up to leading the way” for e-government in East Asia.
26 March 2010 | News
Hong Kong revamps govt portal
Hong Kong’s government web portal has been revamped with a new layout and enhanced functionality. The simple and goal-oriented design aims to make the GovHK more useable and efficient, providing a ‘lively and close-to-market’ experience for users.
19 March 2010 | News
Dalian to host inaugural FutureGov Summit China
FutureGov magazine and the Dalian Municipal Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the organisation of the first ever FutureGov Summit China, to be held on the 1-2 September 2010.
23 February 2010 | Feature
Malaysia banks on ICT to meet 2020 development goals
Malaysia’s Government CIO has hailed ICT as a “key enabler” to fulfil Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s mission to transform Malaysia into a developed nation by 2020. Speaking at the FutureGov Forum Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday (23rd February 2010), Dr Nor Aliah Zahri, Government CIO and Deputy Director General of the Malaysian …
27 January 2010 | News
Gov 2.0 championed at FutureGov Forum Singapore
Government modernisers from South Korea and Europe urged delegates at the FutureGov Forum Singapore today (Wednesday 27, 2010) to be bold in embracing social media and open information as ways to help solve society’s problems. Dr Jung-hee Song, Assistant Mayor for IT and Chief Information Officer, Seoul Metropolitan Government, pointed to …
26 January 2010 | News
Politicians ponder what’s next at FutureGov Forum
Elected politicians from Hong Kong and Singapore shared their perspectives on the future of governance and public service delivery at the FutureGov Forum in Singapore today. Zaqy Mohamad, Member of Parliament & Chairman for the Government Parliamentary Committee for Singapore’s Ministry of Information Communication and the Arts, told delegates that while his country has always …
25 January 2010 | News
Appeal for billion-dollar e-governance project in India
A development programme director for India’s poorest regions has called on foreign and domestic service-providers to help with a local government capacity building exercise for an area that covers 40 per cent of the country. Sudhir Krishna, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj, Government of India, told FutureGov that the 1000 crore rupees (US$217 million) project needed best-of-breed providers to ensure its success. Another project, known as e-Panchayat, will see around 4500 crore rupees (US$978 million) spent on improving service delivery at the village level.
19 January 2010 | Feature
Should data centres be outsourced?
Government data centre outsourcing contracts can help local IT players grow. This creates jobs and boosts the local economy. But the real dynamics of data centre outsourcing have been slow to take off in Asia. Why?
7 January 2010 | Feature
Moving from planning to impact
Government is back, and it is not going away anytime soon. Following a tumultuous 12 months in which governments throughout the region had dramatically increased their role within national economies, the 132 delegates to the FutureGov Summit, Asia’s annual gathering of senior government officials, took time out of the busy schedules to share what had worked well, and lay out their plans for the future of public administration.
29 December 2009 | News
Queensland schools eye 30 per cent energy savings
Queensland’s Department of Education and Training aims to reduce the energy consumption of its state schools by 30 per cent by 2012. Cam Mackenzie, Principal Advisor for Environmental Sustainability, Queensland Department of Education and Training, told FutureGov how the department plans to achieve this and detailed the challenges it must overcome.
22 December 2009 | News
Korea to launch e-gov services via IPTV
The government of South Korea has hatched a plan to make e-services available on the country’s IPTV platforms in the capital, Seoul, by early next year. Public information such as tender notices will be provided in real-time through IPTV channels from March 2010, with services such as civil petitions and tax payments to follow at a later stage.
16 December 2009 | Research
E-Registries in Public Sector: Getting Them Right
Public-sector organisations in Singapore are taking to e-registries in a big way. A recent survey of 170 personnel from government ministries, statutory boards and institutes of higher learning found that 83% were either implementing information management (IM) systems or already had them in place.
14 December 2009 | Interview
NZ local govt boosts communications
The City Council of Porirua in New Zealand has implemented organisational changes with a strong emphasis on improving communications among its staff, 30 per cent of whom mobile as well as with residents of the city. It is also quite innovate in greening its IT operations.
11 December 2009 | News
Chinese prefecture pushes for rural services
Since the launch of the pilots of “Rural Information 121” （“農信121”）project, the eastern Chinese prefecture of Wenzhou has successfully implemented it in more than 11 townships.
1 December 2009 | News
Chinese city goes wireless
The city of Weifang has been chosen as a pilot site for a project to wirelessly connect citizens and government staff in China’s Shandong Province.If successful, the project to create a “wireless city” will be rolled out throughout Shandong, a coastal province in eastern China with a population of 94 million.
30 November 2009 | News
Crossing Hong Kong-Macau border made easy
Hong Kong residents will soon be able to enter Macau through electronic auto-clearance gates using their Hong Kong ID cards while those living in Macau will have the same privilege, according to a joint agreement by the two governments.
12 November 2009 | News
Mobile apps and internet of things to take off in China
With the availability of mobile broadband infrastructure, mobile applications for governments will take off in China, Professor Qu Chengyi, Member of the Advisory Committee for State Informatisation, has told FutureGov.
23 October 2009 | News
Chinese city launches citizen feedback system
The Chinese municipal government of Dalian has launched a user evaluation and electronic monitoring system to gauge the popularity and usefulness of its citizen-facing web sites, and to respond faster to complaints from the public.
13 October 2009 | Spotlight
Building harmonious communities using SAS
The People’s Association plays an important part in Singapore’s nation-building efforts and collects a lot of data about the public through its community activities. It decided to implement an enterprisewide intelligence platform that puts that valuable data to use for analyses that help the agency hone its community-outreach efforts.
13 October 2009 | News
Standards up at Government Technology Awards 2009
Winners at the Government Technology Awards 2009 have received praised for the “very high quality” of entries, particularly from developing countries in the region. However, there is still room for improvement in the Green Government category, noted Laurence Millar, former Government Chief Information Officer of…
12 October 2009 | Research
Looking Ahead
The Development of Information Management in Asia’s Public Sector. A survey of public sector IT executives in Asia
Government agencies in Asia now better realise the importance of information, as there is much demand from the public. In the past, people would accept what was offered to them from their government. Now, people are generally well-versed with information-and-communication-technology tools and are more aware of what government is doing for them. So the public in Asian countries wants more information and they want it faster.
29 September 2009 | News
Chinese city builds public cloud to aid innovation
The northern Chinese city of Dongying is building a public cloud computing platform that it hopes will aid its transformation from an oil-rich manufacturing hub into a high-tech service-based economy.
23 September 2009 | News
Bangaloreans get govt services home delivered
The Indian city of Bangalore, the country’s third most populous city, has hatched plans to launch a series of mobile e-service centres to bring government services closer to citizens.
20 September 2009 | News
China extends rural land registration pilot
After the successful completion of the first phase of the pilot GIS-based land registration project covering two villager groups, China has signed a contract for a second phase, involving two to three counties in the eastern Anhui province.
11 August 2009 | News
Chinese city plans wireless comms network
The government of Wuhan in central China has launched a project to wirelessly connect government officials and the public in the district of Jianghan. Known as ‘Wireless Jianghan’, the project will see each government department encouraged to use a ‘Wireless Home Affairs’ network, according to the Party Secretary of Jianghan District, Zhang Ping.
5 August 2009 | News
Pakistani province to connect govt agencies
The government of Punjab in Pakistan plans to be set up an inter-agency computer network to facilitate information sharing by next year.
4 August 2009 | News
Gun ad posted on Public Security site in China
An advertisement selling a gun has caused embarrassment in the southern Chinese province of Sichuan after it was posted on a Public Security Bureau web site.
4 August 2009 | News
Chinese city launches citizen feedback portal
Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, has launched an interactive forum on its government web site (chengdu.gov.cn/xinxiang) and a “Mayor-mail” hotline to give citizens the opportunity to give feedback and make suggestions regarding public services.
27 July 2009 | News
Indian territory to launch citizen-friendly portal
The administration of the Indian state of Chandigarh is developing a State Service Delivery Gateway (SSDG) that will act as front-end interface to various e-governance initiatives and services across all departments of the Union Territory (UT) Administration.
21 July 2009 | News
Indian state hatches e-goverance plans
The Indian state government of Himachal Pradesh has announced that it will set up 3366 Lok Mitra Kendras (internet kiosks) as part of a plan to better manage service delivery and distribution to ordinary citizens.
10 July 2009 | Interview
Birmingham: a new model for city administration?
Glyn Evans, Corporate Director of Business Change with Birmingham City Council, explains how England’s second city is embarking on the country’s most far reaching local government transformation programme.
30 June 2009 | News
NSW Police installs image management system
The police force of New South Wales (NSW) has implemented Australia’s first large scale digital imagery management system to save law enforcers time.
30 June 2009 | News
Indian e-file system praised for curbing fraud
Indian government officials in Uttar Pradesh (UP) have praised a web-based file tracking system known as e-patravali pranali for helping government departments ensure the speedy disposal of files, and reduce paperwork and corruption.
30 June 2009 | News
Malaysian state wirelessly connects public services
The Malaysian state government of Terengganu has announced the completion of phase one of the Broadband Wireless Network Project (BWNP), which is part of the state’s e-government initiative, T-eG (Terengganu e-government).
23 June 2009 | Feature
Connecting the countryside
Programmes for rural communities will only be successful if local concerns are taken into account and local people are empowered.
23 June 2009 | News
New South Wales undergoes radical govt restructure
The government of New South Wales (NSW) government has announced its biggest structural reform in more than 30 years, merging 160 agencies into 13 super departments.
15 June 2009 | News
San Francisco govt contact centre now on Twitter
San Francisco residents can now reach the government customer service centre through Twitter, a free social messaging tool.
9 June 2009 | News
India sets up mini data centres for e-services
The Indian state government of Gujarat has set up mini data centres (MDCs) in three cities in a bid to reduce costs for e-governance initiatives, increase data security and streamline operational maintenance.
8 June 2009 | News
Long road ahead for India's e-services
The Indian government’s rollout of web-connected Common Service Centers (CSC) has been completed in the states of Jharkhand, Haryana and Sikkim, with more than 40,000 kiosks operational.
26 May 2009 | News
Identity card piloted in southern India
The southern Indian state Karnataka has been chosen as the pilot location to implement the central government’s National Unique Identity (UID) project.
26 May 2009 | News
Police stations in Indian state to go hi-tech
In a bid to make police stations more transparent and efficient, the Gujarat government is set to embrace a new computerised system—the Home Department Integrated Information Total Solution (HD-IITS)—in all police stations in the state.
15 May 2009 | News
Malaysia govt to upgrade federal network
The Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU), a key government agency responsible for ‘modernising and reforming’ the public sector, is upgrading the Putrajaya Campus Network (PCN).
14 May 2009 | News
Singapore launches internet portal for elderly
In an initiative to make ICT more accessible to senior citizens, a local council in Singapore created a web site to provide the elderly with social platforms, games and information…
11 May 2009 | News
India state offers rebate on online applications
A state in Northern India, Haryana, has decided to extend rebate to those using the online medium to fill requests for various kinds of processing to be done at estate offices. This rebate will encourage applicants to use the web, saving time for both applicants and the government agency.
11 May 2009 | News
India calls for local govt participation
New ideas, transparency and accountability are still being resisted at various levels in the government, according to the National Knowledge Commission (NKC)—a body set up by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2005 to prepare a road map for transforming India into a knowledge society.
8 May 2009 | News
Chinese Municipal Government undergoes radical restructuring
“In principle, there will be only one department in charge of a specific policy area after the reform”
6 May 2009 | News
Japan urges cuts in local govts' public works costs
In the ongoing tussle between central and local government in Japan, a panel in charge of expediting the decentralisation of power has called for local entities to be freed from the burden of maintenance expenses for public work done under the orders of central government.
5 May 2009 | News
Hong Kong govt tackles perceived rise in corruption
A poor economy is likely to lead to a rise in corruption in both the public and private sector, a survey by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has revealed.
28 April 2009 | News
China's local govts embrace green procurement
China’s State Council has asked local governments to buy more energy-efficient products, reflecting the country’s determination to make its economic growth cleaner.
20 April 2009 | News
China's e-gov network nears completion
All of China’s government administrations at central, provincial and municipal levels have all now set up official websites, Yang Xueshan, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology Ministry at the China E-government Forum has said.
16 April 2009 | News
Utah state offers services via iPhone
Residents of the US state of Utah have been given access to iPhone applications developed by a state government for the first time.
15 April 2009 | News
E-governance makes slow progress in Sindh
Five government departments in Sindh — one of Pakistan’s four provinces — were connected via information technology last year, but officials have been reluctant to use the network, according to Minister for Information Technology Raza Haroon.
30 March 2009 | News
Record Earth Hour participation from Asia’s governments
Many countries and municipalities switch off lights for an hour in support of the WWF-led initiative
25 March 2009 | News
Hong Kong govt steps up recruitment
The Hong Kong Government will step up its recruitment exercise and hire 6300 people over a one year period starting from now.
24 March 2009 | News
Indian elections go high-tech
Bangalore, the technology capital of India, will be using technology to improve the transparency of its elections in the state.
23 March 2009 | News
Local gov opposes central gov funding projects in Japan
A survey by Japan’s largest newspaper found that almost two thirds of local government officials think that the central government should abolish a system that requires local governments to cover a portion of expenses for central government projects.
10 March 2009 | News
Malaysia to speed up digital inclusion
All ongoing programmes on closing the digital divide in Malaysia need to be completed by 2010, according to Datuk Joseph Salang Gandum, Deputy Minister of Malaysia’s Energy, Water and Communications Ministry.
10 March 2009 | News
VoIP phones make savings for Indian state
Bihar, India’s third largest state, has reportedly made cost savings from the launch of a state-wide area network (SWAN) and secretariat local area network (SecLAN) rolled out for local government officials, removing the need to pay service providers for telephone lines.
12 February 2009 | News
Indian state's e-services woes
Coimbatore city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, is looking at ways to popularise an online registration of birth and death facility. Despite having the process moved online since 1996, the number of online applications average at two to three a month.
6 February 2009 | News
Queensland trials telehealth project
The Australian state of Queensland has launched a telehealth project in the local government district of Ipswich to improve the efficiency of treatment for patients with chronic disease.
6 February 2009 | News
Indian state rolls out telemedicine centres
The Orissa Trust of Technical Education and Training has announced plans to roll out telemedicine centres in villages across the state—the ninth largest in India.
28 January 2009 | News
Over 13,000 Indian local govts get broadband connection
In India, the Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a project that will provide broadband connectivity to all 13,693 local governments at the village level, otherwise known as gram panchayats.
20 January 2009 | News
NSW Police armed with information
New South Wales police will benefit from the introduction of a new national information-sharing platform that enables police and law enforcement agencies to exchange and access detailed profiles of persons of interest across all jurisdictions.
15 January 2009 | News
Indian state establishes e-governance agency
In India, the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has set up an exclusive e-governance agency, called the JAKEGA, with an empowered Board of Governors, headed by the State Chief Secretary Mr C. Phunsong.
9 January 2009 | News
Tamil Nadu—best e-governed state in India
According to a national e-governance survey, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have emerged among the top five e-governed states in India in 2008-09.
9 January 2009 | News
Pakistan province to spend US$624m on education
Lahore, the capital of Punjab province in Pakistan has termed the promotion of education as the topmost priority for the provincial government. Raja Riaz Ahmad Senior Minister has said that the government will introduce IT education to secondary and higher secondary schools.
8 January 2009 | News
India: SMS for police help
The Hyderabad police have launched SMS facility for quick access to the police. In case of emergency, citizens of Hyderabad can get help by texting the police.
5 January 2009 | News
New avenue for Indian citizens to post grievances
To streamline and improve the civil administration, the Margao Municipal Council in Goa, India, has stepped up on its e-governance by encouraging people to post their problems and seek solutions by sending their queries to the e-mail address: mmc@gmail.com. This email address is being protected from spam bots and will require Javascript to view it.
1 January 2009 | News
Plans for e-university in India
The creation of an e-university in Karnataka will see lecture notes being emailed to students, an added convenience to both students and teachers, according to B L Sridhar, principal secretary, department of personnel and administrative reforms (e-governance).
22 December 2008 | News
Broadband centre for every parliamentary constituency in Malaysia
The Malaysian Communications & Multimedia Commission aims to establish a broadband community centre for every parliamentary constituency in the country, which currently numbers 222
17 December 2008 | News
Faster tracking of applications for Vietnamese
In Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh city government has launched an electronic certificate tracking service on December 12 this year, allowing people who have applied for business registration certificates, land documents, building permits or other documents to track the progress of their application.
11 December 2008 | News
Indian state sets January date for e-Govt launch
The Orissa Government has charted out ambitious plans to transform the state as the number one destination for IT companies as well as professionals by 2012.
11 December 2008 | News
Vietnam’s online ministerial e-govt dialogue
Deputy Ministry for Information and Communications affirms government’s strong pushes of e-govt in an online dialogue session.
9 December 2008 | News
Scottish Govt upgrades records management system
The Scottish Government has successfully upgraded its mission critical electronic Records and Document Management system in under a week, with minimum disruptions of service to its 6300 users.
5 December 2008 | News
US$350 million loan for Indonesia regional govt
Improved financial and economic management at all levels of government will be the outcome of a US$350 million programme loan granted by the Asian Development Bank for Indonesian regional and local government reform.
1 December 2008 | News
Indian state to deploy WiMAX for e-govt
Chhattisgarh state government will modernise its communication infrastructure to connect all its departments with a new, high bandwidth State Wide Area Network.
1 December 2008 | News
Bali steps up e-government plans
Governor Made Mangku Pastika of the Indonesian island, Bali, has announced its complete transition towards e-government in two years.
26 November 2008 | News
Election processes improved with GIS
For the 2008 elections, the Registrar of Voters of Alameda County in California used ESRI’s GIS software to simplify precinct analysis and polling station siting processes.
24 November 2008 | News
Digital inclusion a main strategy for rural development
The State of Sarawak has listed narrowing the digital divide between urban and rural communities as one of the main rural development strategies for 2009.
13 November 2008 | News
South Korea creates 'digital city'
The Incheon Free Economic Zone and the Incheon Urban Development Corporation in South Korea has created Asia’s first ‘digital city’.
12 November 2008 | News
SMS for the nearest healthcare facility in India
If you happen to be anywhere in Kerala’s Kozhikode district, emergency relief is just an SMS away.
7 November 2008 | News
GIS boosts law enforcement work in New York
The New York City Department of Probation has deployed ESRI’s geographic information system software to manage caseloads, track high-risk probationers, and share information with other law enforcement divisions more efficiently.
28 October 2008 | News
Australian govt to consolidate 130 data centres
The New South Wales government has plans to consolidate its 130 data centres into two facilities in a bid to cut down on maintenance costs and energy consumption, according to the state’s CIO Emmanuel Rodriguez.
22 October 2008 | News
Indian state gives all schools IT access
Andhra Pradesh, the largest and most populous state in South India, has become the first state to offer ICT education to all its 1.8 million school-going children, starting last Monday.
20 October 2008 | News
Malaysia builds 165 village IT centres
In Kuala Lumpur, a total of 165 Medan Infodesa centres, also known as IT centres, have been set up in villages to equip the rural folk with the necessary IT tools, facilities and training, in a bid to bridge the digital divide in the country.
15 October 2008 | News
Victorian govt cautioned against ICT skills shortage
The Victorian government has pumped an additional US$200.5 million in funding towards innovation initiatives in Victoria but the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has cautioned that ICT skills challenges could impact the success of some ventures.
10 October 2008 | Feature
City Hall and GIS
Mapping technologies are changing the way city and local government operates.
10 October 2008 | News
Indian state to replace telegram with e-post
E-post will replace old system of telegram service across the Indian state of Kerala, according to the state’s Chief Post Master General (CPMG), Dr Udaya Balakrishnan.
9 October 2008 | News
Korean govt spurs green rooftop plans
In a bid to ‘greening’ Seoul, the city government has been encouraging building owners to construct rooftop gardens as one of its “green Seoul” projects.
9 October 2008 | News
Israeli security expert discusses public safety at Singapore meeting
Ze’ev Sarig, Managing Director at the Ben-Gurion International Airport will discuss the leveraging of technology to prevent, respond to and recover from disasters and conflict.
7 October 2008 | News
ICT initiative for African villages
The Imo State Government—a provincial government in oil-rich Nigeria—has plans to embark on an e-village project that would create a sustainable Information Communication Technology (ICT) foundation in the local government areas of the state.
30 September 2008 | News
Shared services agency for NSW govt
The New South Wales state government has created a new shared services agency that will, among other things, provide centralised IT services to a large number of departments and agencies.
29 September 2008 | News
Free WiFi for Penang citizens
The Malaysian state has launched a free WiFi programme for residents, making it the country’s first.
29 September 2008 | News
Singapore’s Next-Gen broadband network nationwide by 2012
All homes and businesses in Singapore are to be connected to the country’s 1Gbps all-fibre National Broadband Network by 2012. The Singapore Government has selected a consortium to design, build and operate the passive infrastructure, in a move seen as world’s most radical structural separation of fixed telecoms.
25 September 2008 | News
Dubai egov partners university
Dubai eGovernment has signed an agreement with Zayed University to collaborate in providing career development opportunities for university students in the field of information technology.
24 September 2008 | News
Seoul inks plan for telephone services
Mayor Oh Se-hoon of Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has announced an ambitious vision to provide advanced telephone-based citizen services, modeled on popular government call centres in Europe.
23 September 2008 | News
Malaysian City to introduce free Wi-Fi
Free wireless internet access will be offered to the residents of Penang, a densely populated urban centre in northern Malaysia.
16 September 2008 | News
Tamil Nadu govt launches entrepreneur site
Wait for it … it’s not a site that lets you register your micro, small or medium enterprises. It’s a site which allows you to submit a form to be given permission to then apply to register your micro, small or medium enterprise.
27 August 2008 | News
Free green power for Canadian government IT
Canada’s provincial governments are setting the wheels in motion to move their IT processing to greener IT data centres that are powered by renewable hydro-electricity.
26 August 2008 | News
NSW govt launches single phone number for services
The New South Wales state government in Australia has announced the launch of a single telephone number to access government services, building on the success of the Connecting NSW web site.
18 August 2008 | News
Public call offices to become info kiosks in Karnataka
Public call offices (PCOs) in the Indian state of Karnataka will be converted into electronic information and transaction kiosks with free broadband connectivity (ePCOs).
12 August 2008 | Feature
Setting state government IT policy in India
R S Sharma, Principal Secretary in the Information Technology Department of the State Government of Jharkhand, India, is responsible for formulation of State policies in the IT and e-governance area. He shares his perspectives on the implementation of various IT projects in all the Departments of the State Government.
11 August 2008 | News
Local government takes the lead in US
Green initiatives are being given a push from the bottom upwards in Arizona. Don Stapley Supervisor of Maricopa County says, “We want counties to be a catalyst for the change in the mindset of Americans.
6 August 2008 | Deals
Singapore IT consortium targets Indian e-government market
A group of small Singapore IT companies is banding together to improve their chances of getting a slice of India’s lucrative public sector IT market, with an initial focus on state government.
1 August 2008 | Deals
Fourth largest US city signs GIS deal
Houston municipal staff look forward to simplified access to GIS tools and accelerated GIS development across the enterprise.
1 August 2008 | News
Hong Kong’s administration works under green roofs
With environmental policies in place since the 1980s, a number of Hong Kong’s government departments—Hong Kong Government’s Architectural Services Department (ASD), the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) and the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKHA)—have been actively pushing for green buildings.
3 July 2007 | Interview
Citizen safety through police mobility
New South Wales Police has introduced one of the largest deployments of mobile data platforms over an area using a single network.
7 August 2005 | News
Oracle launches e-government Centre of Excellence in Malaysia
Oracle’s regional network of E-Governance Centres of Excellence (CoE) is growing, with yesterday’s official opening of its fifth Asian solutions testbed in Putrajaya.
9 March 2005 | News
Singapore property management agency invests in GIS
JTC Corporation, a government agency that provides tenancy and lease management services to more than 7000 companies in Singapore, has signed a deal for a web-based geographical information system.
2 October 2004 | Research
Chinese e-government: too hot to handle?
Estimated at US$4.8 billion, China’s market for e-government services now depends upon the development of common national standards.
7 June 2004 | News
Japanese city deploys e-government
Kyotango City has deployed an e-Government network solution to enable sophisticated information services for its 66,000 citizens.
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