Education IT

25 April 2013 | Feature

Integrating, governing and managing Big Data

Every 30 to 40 per cent increase in data volume usually forces an organisation to re-look at infrastructure. How do governments ensure scalability, while keeping integration, quality, security and efficient archival at the forefront?

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16 April 2013 | Feature

Enabling Persons with Disabilities: Malaysia’s Social Welfare Goes Online - Part 1

Malaysia’s Information Management System for the Disabled — better known as ‘SMOKU’ — was developed to facilitate online registration services for persons with disabilities. Since SMOKU’s launch in December 2012, there are now 222,204 PWDs registered online.

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16 April 2013 | Feature

The Philippine Journey towards digitised payments - Part 2

How can governments promote financial transparency and efficiency, whilst at the same time keeping their electronic payments secure and compliant? A FutureGov gathering of 27 senior finance officials from the Philippines’ public sector attempted to answer that, with the help of electronic payments specialists from Visa.

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26 March 2013 | Feature

Not by the book: the new Edinburgh libraries

FutureGov speaks with Liz McGettigan, the Head of Libraries and Information Services, Edinburgh City, about the transformation taking place in the library system.

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14 March 2013 | Feature

Inside the Cyber Range: an interactive cyber attack exercise

FutureGov visits the new Cyber Wargame Centre at Singapore Polytechnic to observe how real-world cyber-warfare simulations are conducted and speaks to information security students and to the Course Manager for the Diploma in Infocomm Security Management, Liew Chin Chuan.

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11 March 2013 | Feature

Portal improves student data management in Singapore

FutureGov met with Neo Yong Chiang, CIO at Republic Polytechnic, to discuss the development of an online portal consolidating student data and the benefits it brings to users.

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28 February 2013 | Feature

GeBIZ: Enhancing Singapore Procurement System

FutureGov talks to a spokesperson from Singapore’s Ministry of Finance on the Government Electronic Business portal and how the country has set best practice for public sector procurement system.

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22 February 2013 | Feature

Easing Adoption of the Cloud in the Philippines

A FutureGov Breakfast Briefing brought together 17 ICT decision-makers of the Philippine government to discuss issues faced in adopting cloud computing in their agencies and ways to resolve these challenges.

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21 January 2013 | Feature

Shaping the Future of Singapore's Education system with Analytics

Lim Teck Soon, IT Director, Organisation Development Division at the Ministry of Education in Singapore shares details about how the country’s policy makers are shaping the education landscape by leveraging analytics.

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18 January 2013 | Feature

Logging onto a Digital Hospital

Dr Somsiri Sakolsatayadorn, Managing Director and CEO of Samitivej Group, and her Digital Marketing and her Customer Relationship Manager Jiaranai Boonprasatsuk talk to FutureGov about their work in helping make medical records accessible to all key stakeholders — including patients through the My Health Profile project.

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