6 July 2010 | News

China’s Health Ministry to invest in RFID

China’s Ministry of Health has announced plans to ramp up the use of RFID technology to increase the safety and effectiveness of medical and healthcare services.

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7 June 2010 | Feature

How China's govt portal serves 400m

China’s central government portal, gov.cn, is billed as the country’s most authoritative citizen-facing web site. But how does it fare in the eyes of a web design agency and a China citizen?

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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’.

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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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5 April 2010 | News

China Press Bureau rolls out data sharing platform

China’s Press and Publication Bureau has created a unified platform to manage and share information for its offices in 12 provinces across the country.

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19 January 2010 | Feature

Ending the tyranny of distance

In remote areas such as Qinghai Province in China or the northern reaches of Thailand, videoconferencing is proving to be the most effective way yet of connecting disparate communities in far flung places. Robin Hicks and Wang Zhen explain how.

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4 January 2010 | News

Kyrgyz Republic uses software to aid economic reform

The government of the Kyrgyz Republic is implementing an integrated Treasury Management Information System (TMIS) and Human Resource Management Information System (HRMIS) as part of the former Soviet country’s push for economic reform.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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5 October 2009 | News

Chinese province builds information highway

The eastern Chinese province of Anhui is investing more than RMB 80 billion (US$11.5 billion) to modernise its infrastructure, including a project known as ‘Digital Anhui’ that aims to make the internet more widely available and improve data transfer between urban and rural areas.

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22 September 2009 | News

Chinese rural ICT project hits US$18 million mark

A two-year project to bridge the urban-rural digital divide in Yunnan Province in southern China has seen RMB 124 million (US$18 million) spent so far in the creation of the ‘Yunnan Digital Village’, an integrated information network that will serve as a ‘living dictionary’ for the area’s 44 million residents.

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15 September 2009 | News

Chinese city embraces paperless culture

The Office of Chengdu Environmental Protection Agency in Sichuan Province in China is pushing for public sector agencies to embrace paperless office culture. The idea is to improve operational efficiencies and reduce the government’s impact on the environment.

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3 September 2009 | News

Taiwan fake govt web site saga remedied in one hour

The sabotage of a Taiwan government web site by hackers last month was dealt with by the authorities in just one hour, and the perpetrators have now been caught, according to Liu Tian-cai, Administrative Court Commissioner for the Central Personnel Administration (CPU), the agency that came under attack.

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12 August 2009 | News

Singapore govt launches blog for youth

The government of Singapore has launched a web site, www.p65.sg, to serve as a platform for Singaporeans born after the city-state’s independence in 1965 to write about “anything under the sun”, even race and religion.

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11 August 2009 | News

Taiwanese hackers create fake govt web site

Hackers in Taiwan have exploited the turmoil caused by last week’s typhoons by creating a fake home page for the web site of the Central Personnel Administration (CPA), the government department responsible for advising citizens on whether or not conditions are safe enough to go to work or school.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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27 July 2009 | News

China and UK cooperate on network security

The Chinese State Council Information Office and the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skills have agreed to combine their efforts to safeguard national network security and collaborate on information sharing and intelligence gathering.

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