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7 June 2010 | Interview

Australia's GCIO reveals priorities

In the wake of major reviews of the cost structure of government IT, and the use of social media by government, FutureGov sat down with Ann Steward, Australian Government Chief Information Officer, and General Manager of the Australian Government Information Management Office.

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3 June 2010 | Interview

Medical imaging's capacity building shortfall

To tackle the challenges when different medical imaging disciplines go digital, the region’s healthcare industry need to do more, according to an industry expert.

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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.

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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.

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14 April 2010 | Interview

Revamped info system revives Delhi hospital

Dr Karanvir Singh, Head of Medical Informatics at Delhi’s Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, shares the key success factors for him to realise such benefits.

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24 February 2010 | Interview

Leveraging cloud to sustain 200Gbps attack traffic

With a proper mechanism and tools, governments should be able to better defend themselves against Denial-of-service attacks, which are becoming bigger and more frequent

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19 January 2010 | Interview

What are government’s security weak spots?

Microsoft’s global public safety and national security head Tim Bloechl has a Facebook account, but doesn’t trust social media as a reliable source of intelligence. Not yet anyway. When confronted with a threat to public safety, dealing with it should be second nature. So says Tim Bloechl, Microsoft’s Managing Director for Worldwide Public Safety and National Security.

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19 January 2010 | Interview

Acute care, astute IT

Going by its location in central Kuala Lumpur and state-of-the-art design, people tend to perceive Prince Court Medical Centre as a very expensive facility. But Harald Feiel, PCMC’s Chief Information Officer, says this is a myth. “Although we aspire to become the best acute care hospital in Asia with unique, top-notch facilities, we are no more expensive than other private hospitals here in Malaysia,” he explains. “We have done market analysis and in most areas our fees are comparable with those of other hospitals.”

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5 January 2010 | Interview

Putting government to the test

Two candidates enter the hall for the same examination. As the examination proceeds, the computer selects the next question from a database based on each examinee’s performance so far. The stronger candidate gets presented with more difficult questions while the other get easier ones. Immediately after, the computer generates equitable scores even though both have experienced a different test set.

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28 December 2009 | Interview

Hong Kong Observatory launches YouTube channel

Hong Kong Observatory, the weatherman of the city frequently affected by adverse weather conditions, has launched a new YouTube channel for weekly summary of weather information as well as public meteorological education.

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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.

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30 November 2009 | Interview

New Singapore hospital to deploy “mini-EHR”

A new private medical facility in Singapore is poised to consolidate its information systems across its tertiary hospital and almost 200 consultation suites.

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13 November 2009 | Interview

Making telemedicine effective in rural India

Simple ways telemedicine was used in the rich world more than a decade ago still have its future in rural India

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30 October 2009 | Interview

A new order in an old hospital

Dr Chan Wai Sin, Deputy Director of Macau’s Health Bureau and Director of Hospital Conde S. Januário, actively promotes e-health based on international standards, amid strong resistance in a 135 year old hospital.

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21 October 2009 | Interview

Reflections of a government CIO

Laurence Millar was one of the longest serving GCIOs in Asia before he resigned in April. The former New Zealand government IT supremo talks Robin Hicks through the ups and downs of his tenure, and the lessons he learned along the way

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13 October 2009 | Interview

Malaysia's moderniser

Datuk Normah binti Md Yusof, Director-General of the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit, the country’s lead agency for government modernisation, marks her second year in the job by reviewing progress and outlining her organisation’s future plans.

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27 July 2009 | Interview

How govt can prepare for unknown unknowns

Jo Bryson, Executive Director, Public Sector Commission, Government of Western Australia talks about enabling next generation service delivery.

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10 July 2009 | Interview

Managing hospital IT in China

Niu Qirun, CIO of China’s Sun Yat-sen Hospital shares how a large scale modern western medicine hospital in China navigates through its challenges and contributes to the nation’s healthcare reform

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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.

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7 July 2009 | Interview

Selling the Singapore e-govt story

In the last issue of FutureGov, we asked senior figures in China, India, Korea and the Philippines whether or not they thought the Singapore e-government model would work in their countries. Not all of them said yes. In fact, only one did. And he was from Korea, a country that like Singapore wants to sell its e-government model to the world.

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30 June 2009 | Interview

Hospital COO on medicine as a service industry

Brian de Francesca, who runs one of the biggest public hospitals in the United Arab Emirates, believes there is no magic in medicine. He thinks like any other service provider, hospitals should improve performance and guarantee service levels.

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29 May 2009 | Interview

Hong Kong primary school bolsters interactive learning

While successfully applying interactive tools in classrooms, Chong Wu Lam of Fanling Public School worries that over-reliance on ICT could hamper the effectiveness of learning.

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27 May 2009 | Interview

Hong Kong hospital keeps standards high on a low budget

Lily Cho of Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital explains how the IT department uses limited resources to support the high quality care the hospital thrives to provide.

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14 May 2009 | Interview

Hong Kong's DIY hospital CIO

Melvin Choi, CIO of Adventist Health Hong Kong, believes that health IT is not complicated. And he is proving that. Melvin Choi’s office is like a museum – he kept all the important documents since 1975, when he started his decade long career in health IT. If you want to know…

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7 April 2009 | Interview

What women bring to government: academic

If there were more women in government in Asia, more attention would be paid to family and social issues and the welfare of children, a leading academic on Southeast Asian gender issues has told FutureGov.

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12 March 2009 | Interview

Geography in action

Jack Dangermond, Founder and President of ESRI, is a firm believer that government should not only share GIS within its departments, but with the public too. For Jack Dangermond, President of ESRI, geography is a life long passion. “Geographic information is critical to many aspects of governing,” he says…

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25 February 2009 | Interview

How the world has changed

Lindsay Tanner, Australia’s Minister of Finance & Deregulation, talks about the role of government ICT in the face of the economic downturn.

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9 October 2008 | Interview

Hong Kong GCIO in conversation

Jeremy Godfrey, appointed Hong Kong’s Government Chief Information Officer earlier this year, met up with James Smith for a chat. This is an abridged selection of his comments.

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1 October 2008 | Interview

Green management makes sense for polytechnic

One of Singapore’s tertiary education institutes has a long-standing commitment to go green, shares Andre Ahchak, Deputy Director, Nanyang Polytechnic.

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17 September 2008 | Interview

Singapore govt experiments with social media

The Singapore government is on Facebook. Why? Dr Amy Khor, Member of Parliament, Mayor of Singapore’s Southwest district and Chairman of government feedback agency REACH, has the answers.

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17 September 2008 | Interview

Charting the direction of Indonesia’s government ICT strategy

Currently, ICT is on the top of the agenda for the Indonesian government. Technology can serve as a critical enabler for poverty reduction, and for the achievement of our Millennium Development Goals, explains Kemal Stamboel, Vice Chairman, Executive Team, Indonesian National ICT Council.

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5 September 2008 | Interview

An Australian quest for e-health

Rather than focusing solely on technology, Philip Davies, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health and Ageing addresses some important issues concerning change management in health and the role of governments in driving e-health development.

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21 August 2008 | Interview

Indian e-govt 'faces corruption threat'

“Corruption is the biggest enemy of e-government,” Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Vice President of government industry solutions at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has announced to the press.

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1 August 2008 | Interview

Focusing on ends rather than means

A shift to local government delivery, and a rapidly converging IT ecosystem is pressuring the region’s public sector to think strategically rather than tactically about the role of IT, says Microsoft’s point man for public sector, Ralph Young. Interview: James Smith.

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31 July 2008 | Interview

Modernising Australia's tax service

Jianggan Li speaks with Todd Heather, Acting Chief Information Officer, Australian Taxation Office (ATO), to find out how its modernisation plans are coming along.

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3 February 2008 | Interview

Leading the way in healthcare IT

Alan Payne, Chief Information Officer of health solutions provider Healthe, explains how IT is transforming Australia’s largest private hospital network.

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3 September 2007 | Interview

How e-exams help provide speed and security

A school in one of India’s smallest states is pioneering the use of e-exams to help create a consistentcy, security and ease of use in its examinations system.

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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.

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12 June 2007 | Interview

Accessing Chinese patient records on the move

Qiao Kai, Chief Technical Officer of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, shares his experience in building and managing workflow using mobile devices.

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1 May 2007 | Interview

Delivering the largest healthcare IT service

Richard Granger, Director General of IT for the National Health Service in England, talks about recent developments in Britain’s healthcare technology.

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1 January 2005 | Interview

Building New Zealand’s e-government ecosystem

New Zealand has ambitious plans to establish a rich e-government ecosystem that syndicates content and services through the national government portal, individual agency sites as well as the private sector. Laurence Millar, Director of the E-Government Unit at the State Services Commission talks about the country’s current progress and future plans.

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