28 October 2008 | News

Australian govt to consolidate 130 data centres

The New South Wales government has plans to consolidate its 130 data centres into two facilities in a bid to cut down on maintenance costs and energy consumption, according to the state’s CIO Emmanuel Rodriguez.

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22 October 2008 | News

Indian state gives all schools IT access

Andhra Pradesh, the largest and most populous state in South India, has become the first state to offer ICT education to all its 1.8 million school-going children, starting last Monday.

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20 October 2008 | News

Malaysia builds 165 village IT centres

In Kuala Lumpur, a total of 165 Medan Infodesa centres, also known as IT centres, have been set up in villages to equip the rural folk with the necessary IT tools, facilities and training, in a bid to bridge the digital divide in the country.

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15 October 2008 | News

Victorian govt cautioned against ICT skills shortage

The Victorian government has pumped an additional US$200.5 million in funding towards innovation initiatives in Victoria but the Australian Computer Society (ACS) has cautioned that ICT skills challenges could impact the success of some ventures.

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10 October 2008 | Feature

City Hall and GIS

Mapping technologies are changing the way city and local government operates.

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10 October 2008 | News

Indian state to replace telegram with e-post

E-post will replace old system of telegram service across the Indian state of Kerala, according to the state’s Chief Post Master General (CPMG), Dr Udaya Balakrishnan.

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9 October 2008 | News

Korean govt spurs green rooftop plans

In a bid to ‘greening’ Seoul, the city government has been encouraging building owners to construct rooftop gardens as one of its “green Seoul” projects.

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9 October 2008 | News

Israeli security expert discusses public safety at Singapore meeting

Ze’ev Sarig, Managing Director at the Ben-Gurion International Airport will discuss the leveraging of technology to prevent, respond to and recover from disasters and conflict.

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7 October 2008 | News

ICT initiative for African villages

The Imo State Government—a provincial government in oil-rich Nigeria—has plans to embark on an e-village project that would create a sustainable Information Communication Technology (ICT) foundation in the local government areas of the state.

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30 September 2008 | News

Shared services agency for NSW govt

The New South Wales state government has created a new shared services agency that will, among other things, provide centralised IT services to a large number of departments and agencies.

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29 September 2008 | News

Free WiFi for Penang citizens

The Malaysian state has launched a free WiFi programme for residents, making it the country’s first.

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29 September 2008 | News

Singapore’s Next-Gen broadband network nationwide by 2012

All homes and businesses in Singapore are to be connected to the country’s 1Gbps all-fibre National Broadband Network by 2012. The Singapore Government has selected a consortium to design, build and operate the passive infrastructure, in a move seen as world’s most radical structural separation of fixed telecoms.

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25 September 2008 | News

Dubai egov partners university

Dubai eGovernment has signed an agreement with Zayed University to collaborate in providing career development opportunities for university students in the field of information technology.

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24 September 2008 | News

Seoul inks plan for telephone services

Mayor Oh Se-hoon of Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) has announced an ambitious vision to provide advanced telephone-based citizen services, modeled on popular government call centres in Europe.

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23 September 2008 | News

Malaysian City to introduce free Wi-Fi

Free wireless internet access will be offered to the residents of Penang, a densely populated urban centre in northern Malaysia.

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16 September 2008 | News

Tamil Nadu govt launches entrepreneur site

Wait for it … it’s not a site that lets you register your micro, small or medium enterprises. It’s a site which allows you to submit a form to be given permission to then apply to register your micro, small or medium enterprise.

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27 August 2008 | News

Free green power for Canadian government IT

Canada’s provincial governments are setting the wheels in motion to move their IT processing to greener IT data centres that are powered by renewable hydro-electricity.

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26 August 2008 | News

NSW govt launches single phone number for services

The New South Wales state government in Australia has announced the launch of a single telephone number to access government services, building on the success of the Connecting NSW web site.

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18 August 2008 | News

Public call offices to become info kiosks in Karnataka

Public call offices (PCOs) in the Indian state of Karnataka will be converted into electronic information and transaction kiosks with free broadband connectivity (ePCOs).

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12 August 2008 | Feature

Setting state government IT policy in India

R S Sharma, Principal Secretary in the Information Technology Department of the State Government of Jharkhand, India, is responsible for formulation of State policies in the IT and e-governance area. He shares his perspectives on the implementation of various IT projects in all the Departments of the State Government.

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11 August 2008 | News

Local government takes the lead in US

Green initiatives are being given a push from the bottom upwards in Arizona. Don Stapley Supervisor of Maricopa County says, “We want counties to be a catalyst for the change in the mindset of Americans.

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6 August 2008 | Deals

Singapore IT consortium targets Indian e-government market

A group of small Singapore IT companies is banding together to improve their chances of getting a slice of India’s lucrative public sector IT market, with an initial focus on state government.

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1 August 2008 | Deals

Fourth largest US city signs GIS deal

Houston municipal staff look forward to simplified access to GIS tools and accelerated GIS development across the enterprise.

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1 August 2008 | News

Hong Kong’s administration works under green roofs

With environmental policies in place since the 1980s, a number of Hong Kong’s government departments—Hong Kong Government’s Architectural Services Department (ASD), the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department (EMSD) and the Hong Kong Housing Authority (HKHA)—have been actively pushing for green buildings.

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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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7 August 2005 | News

Oracle launches e-government Centre of Excellence in Malaysia

Oracle’s regional network of E-Governance Centres of Excellence (CoE) is growing, with yesterday’s official opening of its fifth Asian solutions testbed in Putrajaya.

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9 March 2005 | News

Singapore property management agency invests in GIS

JTC Corporation, a government agency that provides tenancy and lease management services to more than 7000 companies in Singapore, has signed a deal for a web-based geographical information system.

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2 October 2004 | Research

Chinese e-government: too hot to handle?

Estimated at US$4.8 billion, China’s market for e-government services now depends upon the development of common national standards.

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7 June 2004 | News

Japanese city deploys e-government

Kyotango City has deployed an e-Government network solution to enable sophisticated information services for its 66,000 citizens.

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