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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
Security
What are government’s security weak spots?
Microsoft’s global public safety and national security head Tim ...
Healthcare
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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