12 April 2013 | News

US State consolidates IT infrastructure

The State of Oklahoma has recently consolidated its IT infrastructure as part of its effort to improve citizen services and its performance while reducing cost.

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11 April 2013 | News

Philippine Government Recognised in FutureGov Awards

The achievements of the Philippines’s public sector have been highlighted yesterday in the first national FutureGov Awards - with eight winners announced at an awards ceremony at the close of the annual FutureGov Forum Philippines conference.

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12 March 2013 | News

South Korea tackles big data in weather forecasting

South Korea’s Meteorological Administration has recently deployed new storage technologies to tackle Big Data for better and more accurate and predictive environmental forecasting.

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13 February 2013 | News

US deploys supercomputer to help fight cancer

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, and WellPoint—health insurer have initiated a project with IBM to deploy its Watson supercomputer to work on fighting cancer.

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10 January 2013 | Interview

Indonesia announces progress of national e-ID

Indonesia’s Ministry of Home Affairs has revealed the progress of its Electronic Identification Card project — 110 million e-ID cards of nearly 173 million have been printed out. Of that number, 90 million cards have been distributed to citizens.

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14 December 2012 | News

Australia unveils US$87 million grant for solar technology

The Australian government’s peak body, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has unveiled a US$87 million R&D project to research and fast-track the use of solar power as a clean energy source.

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11 December 2012 | News

UK One Step Closer to ‘White Spaces’ Devices

Ofcom, the communications regulator in the UK, released a comprehensive framework to allow the development and launch of consumer ‘white spaces’ devices.

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6 November 2012 | News

Aust gov targets social media bullies

Australian government steps up campaign to curb cyber bullying to tackle the negative effects of social media, especially for vulnerable teenagers.

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2 November 2012 | News

Aust Dept of Defence upgrades comms network

Australian Department of Defence upgrades its communications network – with expanded support for wireless, video-conferencing, and personal devices.

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30 October 2012 | News

Laos to introduce 4G next month

Laos will launch 4G LTE mobile service next month during the 9th Asia-Europe Meeting Summit held in Vientiane.

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