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Thailand to set up national cyber security system

Thailand’s Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, The Electronic Transactions Development Agency and Thailand Computer Emergency Response Team, in cooperation with Symantec will establish a national cyber security system.

Thailand’s National Park deploys secured network nationwide

Department of National parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP), Thailand ...

Thailand deploys US$4.4 mil CCTV network

Four hundred new CCTV surveillance cameras were recently installed in ...

26 April 2012 | News

Singapore pilots islandwide plan for CCTV

Singapore Police started the pilot installation of closed-circuit TV cameras at 300 Housing Board Blocks and multi-storey carparks in seven neighbourhoods on Monday as part of the islandwide installation of cameras plan announced in Parliament earlier this year.

23 April 2012 | News

Vietnamese City to Build US$6.4 Mil Traffic Control System

On March 29, the Japanese Ambassador to Vietnam, Tanizaki Yasuaki, and Vietnam’s Minister for Transport, Dinh La Thang, met in Hanoi to confirm Japan’s grant of US$6.4 million to contribute towards the implementation of a traffic control system for expressways in Hanoi.

22 March 2012 | News

Australia Launches National Cybersecurity Competition

The 2012 Cyber Defence University Challenge will test the cyber problem-solving skills of teams of Australian undergraduates in a virtual computer network scenario.

15 March 2012 | News

Australia spends US $29.2 million on airport body scanners

The Australian Government will spend US$29.2 million on airport passenger screening technology at major airports.

10 March 2012 | News

U.S. appoints new Government Chief Technology Officer

Todd Park joins White House as new Chief Technology Officer.

9 March 2012 | News

Aus state spends US$11.7 million on Digital Futures Fund

The Victorian Government is allocating US$11.7 million to a new Digital Futures Fund to fast-track research and development into data mining, analytics, cloud computing and cyber-security.

1 March 2012 | News

Australian e-health bill passes lower house

Australia’s personally-controlled electronic health records (PCEHR) e-health bill passes lower house.

21 February 2012 | News

US Congress allocates US$7 bil for public safety network

Legislation has been approved by the US Government on the 17th of February to build a new nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network.

16 February 2012 | News

Australia tightens G-cloud privacy

The Australian Government is tightening G-cloud privacy to protect citizen information.

8 February 2012 | News

Indian City Police undergo ICT training to track criminals

In a pilot scheme, 20 policemen from Kozhikode, in the state of Kerala, are undergoing ICT training in the state’s Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System (CCTNS). The training consists of training police officers in creating databases and collecting biometric data of criminals.

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