Thursday, 20 November 2008
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Driving value through a business process platform
The challenges facing the public sector today are greater than ever, writes Vivek Puthucode, Industry ...
Next generation data centres
Pankaj Sharma, vice president, sales and marketing, Asia Pacific and Japan, explains how APC meets ...
The perpetual collaboration mandate
Globalisation, ecological issues, technological impact and other modern challenges are driving the need for streamlined ...
Shaping governments of the future
Leong Peng Kiong talks about pioneering new ways of building, implementing and operating e-government services.
Central Government
Brunei GCIO candid about e-govt inadequacies
Over ambitious moves to e-government led to ‘fragmentation’ of effort, says GCIO and Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office in Brunei.
Education
ICT for education in rural Malaysia school
A school in a remote part of Sabah state boasts ...
Digital Inclusion
Sustaining the internet for students in the Philippines
To enhance the IT skills of high-school students, the Department ...
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3 Dec – 4 Dec 08
The Carlton, Singapore
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5 Dec – 5 Dec 08
The Carlton, Singapore
Government Information Forum
4 Mar – 5 Mar 09
Grand Hyatt, Singapore
Government Information Forum India
3 Jun – 4 Jun 09
New Delhi, India
Central Government
All 62 govt agencies in Kuwait to share information internally
The Kuwaiti government has implemented the new Kuwait Information Network ...
Technology
ICT use can help cut emissions in India
A new report says that a more pervasive use of ...
Healthcare
Better healthcare for rural Vietnam
Vietnam’s south central coast region, home to nine million ...
The tortoise and the OLPC hare
The One Laptop Per Child project was launched to great fanfare three years ago. What happened?
Through a glass darkly
As British Prime Minister and novelist Benjamin Disraeli once said, there are lies, damned lies and statistics. He might have added e-government surveys to his list, as in my experience they can sometimes create more emotion than clarity, no matter how well meaning their intentions.
There may be trouble ahead
When you have a very large scale IT project, chances are – it will go wrong at some point of time, maybe many times.
Government: the end of an era?
The current financial turmoil, and the broad-based support for government intervention, is going to fundamentally alter citizens’ expectations of government. FutureGov – thoughts from the morning of day one, continued…
Why e-government isn’t working
E-government needs to go niche if it is to remain relevant and it needs to ...
City Hall and GIS
Mapping technologies are changing the way city and local government operates.
Singapore govt experiments with social media
The Singapore government is on Facebook. Why? Dr Amy Khor, Member of Parliament, Mayor of ...
Focusing on ends rather than means
A shift to local government delivery, and a rapidly converging IT ecosystem is pressuring the ...