Monday, 8 September 2008
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Accenture appoints new Public Service head
Barcelona-based Accenture veteran to oversee company’s business serving public-sector clients.
Transparent, interoperable, secure: the Office Open XML file format
Oliver Bell, Regional Technology Officer, Microsoft Asia, highlights the importance of choice and compatibility in ...
Digital Inclusion
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.
Education
Chinese university deploys campus-wide wireless LAN
Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications has deployed a campus-wide ...
Education
Australian college invests in high performance network
Mercedes College deploys 10gb a second connectivity in new fibre ...
Government Technology Awards
1 Jan – 29 Aug 08
Grand Hyatt Bali, Indonesia
FutureGov Summit
15 Oct – 17 Oct 08
Grand Hyatt Bali, Indonesia
Disaster Management, Response & Recovery
21 Oct – 22 Oct 08
Grand Hyatt, Singapore
Central Government
Dubai's eGovernment aims high—seeking US$276 million revenue this year
Dubai’s integrated electronic payment system (ePay) has collected US ...
Education
Hands-free access for disabled children at a UK college
National Star College is a registered charity and national independent ...
Partnerships to the fore in Bangkok
I’m just back from Bangkok where I’ve spent the last three days with Microsoft’s public sector team as they showcased the value of its partner ecosystem at its regional kick-off meeting in Bangkok.
The great e-government giveaway
It’s hard to take a government’s e-services seriously if the government in question doesn’t take them seriously either. The latest news across my desk is how Dubai’s e-government project is aiming to drum up citizen participation by dishing out freebies.
Is WiMax the Betamax of wireless broadband?
Much of the debate around wireless broadband at municipal or even national level is the rivalry between WiMax and Long Term Evolution (LTE). Which one is the VHS, and which one the Betamax?
'Government tech is the bane of my life'
South Africa’s Director-General of Home Affairs has declared IT to be the “bane” of the department’s existence. Not quite a ringing endorsement, which is a pity as I know the hard work that the country’s State Information Technology Agency (SITA) has been doing over the last three years.
Focusing on ends rather than means
A shift to local government delivery, and a rapidly converging IT ecosystem is pressuring the ...
Why e-government isn’t working
E-government needs to go niche if it is to remain relevant and it needs to ...
UK civil servants want more access to Web 2.0 tools
A new study by Huddle.net - ‘Social Collaboration and Public Sector’ - has indicated that local ...
Setting state government IT policy in India
R S Sharma, Principal Secretary in the Information Technology Department of the State Government of ...