27 January 2012 | News

Australia spends US$5.3 billion on ICT

The Australian Government is driving investment in information technology and telecommunications — supported by an annual spending effort of AUD$5 billion (US$5.3 billion).

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29 July 2011 | Interview

Growth and social equity in Sri Lanka

An interview with the Minister of Public Management Reforms, the Honourable Navin Dissanayake MP, about how ICT provides the foundation for growth and social equity.

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20 July 2011 | News

Making M-Govt An Immediate Reality in Sri Lanka

There is more work to be done before Sri Lankan citizens can access all government services via their mobile phones, but Chief Technology Officer Sanjaya Karunasena of Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka revealed steps that can make some aspects of m-government a reality in the short-run.

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18 May 2011 | News

Government Efficiency Rankings: Hong Kong tops chart

A leading business school in Switzerland has released the results of its research in its “World Competitiveness Yearbook 2011”, which places Hong Kong at the top of government efficiency rankings, followed by Singapore and Switzerland.

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9 November 2010 | News

Sri Lanka launches e-pensions project

The Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka and the Ministry of Public Administration & Home Affairs have launched e-Pensions, a programme to better distribute Rs 250 million (US$2.2 million) in pension funds entitled to Sri Lanka’s 470,000 public sector pensioners every month.

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19 October 2010 | News

FutureGov Awards: full list of winners

The full list of award winners from the 2010 FutureGov Awards, held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

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19 October 2010 | News

India aims to create 100m unique IDs by 2011

Ram Sewak Sharma, Director General of the Unique Identification Authority of India, has said that the biggest identity project ever attempted will see 100 million Indian residents given a unique ID by 2011.

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18 October 2010 | News

Korea, Sri Lanka shine at FutureGov Awards

Sri Lanka and Korea topped this year’s FutureGov Awards tally, leading a field that contained more than 800 nominations from 20 different countries, confirming the awards as Asia’s foremost celebration of public sector modernisation.

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2 September 2010 | News

India targets Google and Skype on data security

First BlackBerry. Now Google and Skype. The government of India not only wants BlackBerry to build data centres within its borders so that its intelligence agencies can more easily monitor communications. It wants Google and Skype to do the same.

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13 July 2010 | Research

Asian E-Government in 2010

FutureGov announces the availability of a new report Asian E-government in 2010 – winning citizen trust for Government ICT initiatives. The study, based on a survey of 121 public sector officials from eight Asia Pacific countries and economies (within the Government, Education and Healthcare sectors) found that there was scope for increased deployment of E-government services across all organisations. Over 45 per cent of respondents indicated that they offered less than ten such e-services to citizens.

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