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.


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Personal health records to save US$21 billion a year?

A US study has projected that personal health records could potentially save the country US$21 billion a year.

GIS boosts law enforcement work in New York

The New York City Department of Probation has deployed ESRI ...

‘Internet for Everyone’ campaign launched in Canada

Telecommunities Canada (TC), a national coalition of groups that promote ...

23 September 2008 | News

IBM tops security software report

A new report has rated IBM as the leading vendor worldwide in identity and access management security software in 2007.

18 September 2008 | News

R&D centre launched for social software

IBM has launched a centre for social software, which will bring together the top talent at the company who will work with university students and faculty, clients and partners, for the research, development and testing of social software.

15 September 2008 | News

US Postal Service reduces costs with transportation scenario analysis

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has realised over US$5 million in annual savings through a strategic transportation management initiative.

2 September 2008 | News

Google launches web browser

Google is joining the browser war by launching its own application which aims at offering safer and richer web experience.

30 August 2008 | Research

Information Management Mistakes Can Wreak Havoc in the Public Sector

Prudent data security management has historically been the sole domain of the Chief Information Officer (CIO); and that is no longer the case. As of June 2008, more than 330 million records were compromised globally.

29 August 2008 | Research

Having everyone equipped with PCs has green flaws

Across the globe, the number of personal computers in use has exceeded one billion and the figures will double by 2014. This development will account for PCs dumped into landfills without consideration for its toxic content, says Meike Escherich, Principal Research Analyst at Gartner.

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.

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.

7 August 2008 | Feature

WiMax around the world

Jianggan Li rounds up his interviews with the people behind WiMax deployments in France, the Netherlands and the United States.

4 August 2008 | Research

US e-government satisfaction rising

E-government satisfaction can drive citizens to online channel, lead to cost savings, suggests new research.

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.

1 August 2008 | News

IBM Research develops tech fix to aid human memory

New software helps people struggling with information overload.

20 September 2007 | Deals

High-speed link to US schools

Indian and US universities to partner each other

19 August 2007 | Deals

US $ 93.4 million earmarked for govt projects in Pakistan

Keeping in view the importance of IT in the economic development of the country, the Pakistani government has allocated Rs 5.64 billion (US $ 93.4 million) for 115 IT related development projects for the current fiscal year 2007-08.

3 May 2007 | Spotlight

Transparent, interoperable, secure: the Office Open XML file format

Oliver Bell, Regional Technology Officer, Microsoft Asia, highlights the importance of choice and compatibility in achieving the maximum benefits through effective XML data representation.

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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 ...