30 October 2008 | Feature

Integrated Healthcare: The Push for Quality & Productivity

The virtual explosion of costs in the healthcare sector affects all, from private payers to the government, hospitals, individual care providers and patients. But despite rising costs, hospital budgets have remained more or less the same. Today’s healthcare organisations must face growing pressure to optimize clinical and business systems and improve patient satisfaction.

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30 October 2008 | Feature

Managing heterogeneity

Open Source is not a religion; it’s a licensing choice. As government organisations embrace Open Source Software (OSS) on a case-by-case basis, IT environments are going to have to successfully manage solutions that interoperate across the licensing divide. As we find out, pragmatism is already ruling in IT departments around the region.

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23 October 2008 | Feature

Transformational records management in Singapore

How do you plan for scalable records management? What different approaches are organisations taking to the business of information management? Can public sector organisations find the skilled staff to manage information registries?

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23 October 2008 | Feature

Medics on the move: enterprise mobility in Asia's hospitals

Jianggan Li speaks to those who are on the forefront of providing best tools to clinicians at the bedside

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23 October 2008 | Feature

Buyers’ guide to: secure printing

We review the latest generation of MFPs to see how government offices can manage sensitive data without sacrificing productivity.

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23 October 2008 | Feature

Network intelligence in a successful SOA implementation

Though it has been around for a while, the concept of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) still conjures an air of mystery. Perhaps it’s the term SOA that sounds intimidating. Simply put, SOA is about achieving a connection among integrated systems to allow different applications to exchange data.

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14 October 2008 | Feature

Green office: reducing government’s environmental impact

How civil servants can reduce their carbon footprint by working smarter and greener in the office.

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10 October 2008 | Feature

Grey govt - Asia's public sector learns to cope with an ageing population

Asia is ageing. We look at the impact an ageing population has on government service delivery and its efforts to retain talent and knowledge as a large percentage of workers reach retirement age.

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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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9 October 2008 | Feature

Making WiMax mission critical

Benhur Mesfin, Director of Business Development & Strategy Wireless Broadband at Motorola Asia Pacific, explains why WiMAX can be operated privately.

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9 October 2008 | Feature

Future education in Singapore

With the advent of Singapore’s FutureSchools project—whereby the next generation of students will be equipped with ICT in every area of their studies—we interview a leading secondary school in the country to get an insight to these students’ lifestyles come the invasion of technology into classrooms.

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30 September 2008 | Feature

Building e-government in Macao

A major e-governance initiative undertaken by the Macao SAR Government in collaboration with the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology through its Centre for Electronic Governance, and major local institutions, the e-Macao initiative aims to build a sustainable foundation for the effective use of ICT by government agencies.

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25 September 2008 | Feature

SOA: Enabling next generation govt

We take a look at how the government is using Service-Oriented Architecture to reduce the cost and increase the agility of public sector IT infrastructure.

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23 September 2008 | Feature

Home alone: Govt gets serious about remote working

In the past decade, working from home, otherwise known as telecommuting, has been drawing attention globally in both the private and public sectors.

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20 September 2008 | Feature

The Creative Classroom

Future schooling in Singapore—from educational computer games to virtual field trips.

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17 September 2008 | Feature

Why WiMax?

The wireless broadband technology has been the ‘next big thing’ for some time. FutureGov assesses when and in what circumstances it will take off and what it means for the public sector. Report: Jianggan Li.

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5 September 2008 | Feature

Australian college invests in high performance network

Mercedes College deploys 10gb a second connectivity in new fibre network.

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29 August 2008 | Feature

The rise and rise of green printing

Amelia Kwok reviews solutions that can help largescale public sector organisations conserve energy, reduce waste, and use other environmentally-friendly features.

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28 August 2008 | Feature

Raising the standard for research and education networks

Dai Davies, General Manager at Europe’s advanced research network DANTE, talks about the challenges of meeting rising user demands and fending off cyber threats.

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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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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.

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3 August 2008 | Feature

IT recycling

As awareness about toxic e-waste grows, more of the region’s government agencies are promoting the message of re-use and recycle.

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1 August 2008 | Feature

Why e-government isn’t working

E-government needs to go niche if it is to remain relevant and it needs to be relevant if it is to succeed online. James Smith thinks aloud.

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3 May 2008 | Feature

Sri Lanka's citizen services call centre

Sri Lanka demonstrates that developing nations can harness call centres to bridge the digital divide and deliver new levels of citizen service.

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12 September 2007 | Feature

Web 2.0 = SOA in the wild

What makes Web 2.0 applications different to the earlier generation of online offerings? In Web 1.0 we were trying to push innovation at users. Now the pressure is the other way – the users are pulling and shaping Web 2.0.

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25 August 2007 | Feature

Campus networks in Asia

Students today learn in a connected, information-rich world that exists outside the campus and IT is upgrading to mee the new expectations.

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15 August 2007 | Feature

Fighting dengue fever with GIS

The National Environment Agency (NEA) in Singapore started deploying GIS in 1992 in order to develop a real-time Aedes mosquito control and monitoring system.

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6 August 2007 | Feature

Chinese university builds and manages a consolidated data centre

Huang Dawu and Song Shibing of Peking University share their experience of constructing and maintaining their data centre. Interview: Jianggan Li.

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1 August 2007 | Feature

Building a single point of contact for Australian social services

John Wadeson, Deputy Chief Executive Officer (DCEO) responsible for IT with Centrelink discusses the ongoing challenge of managing Australia’s largest government contact centre network. Interview: Jianggan Li.

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25 July 2007 | Feature

Putting a doctor in every village

Krishnan Ganapathy reveals how videoconferencing proved to be a cost-effective bridge between urban healthcare resources and rural patients in India. Professor Krishnan Ganapathy is the Head of Telemedicine for Apollo Hospitals and Honorary Advisor to the Armed Forces Medical Services of India.

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2 May 2007 | Feature

Korean e-government for export

South Korea lends a helping hand – with strings attached.

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25 April 2007 | Feature

Managing the transition to wireless working

Asian governments are increasingly cutting free from their wired infrastructure with a view to increasing efficiency and citizen outreach.

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3 October 2004 | Feature

Introducing the CIO role to Korean government

How the CIO role proved to be a springboard for government IT success in South Korea.

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9 August 2004 | Feature

Engaging Singapore's citizens

As Singapore celebrates its 39th National Day today, it is worth taking a closer look at the achievements one of the region’s e-government leaders writes James Smith.

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3 August 2004 | Feature

Mobile feedback in the Philippines

In the Philippines up to 150 million text messages are sent each day. By contrast there are only 3.2 million internet users in the country. So when the Civil Service Commission examined creating new channels for citizen feedback, it realised that the wireless channel was the way to go.

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