Heute 60

Gestern 946

Insgesamt 39524202

Sonntag, 8.09.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

Asien / Asia

  • Asia: How to make ICT-enabled education succeed

    ICT lies at the heart of modernising Asia’s education systems. However, technology alone will not be enough to bridge the digital divide, says Anita Dighe, Director, Directorate of Distance Learning, India. She went on to stress areas which governments need to focus on in order to deliver positive outcomes.

    Research has shown that projects to promote life-long learning through technology within illiterate communities can strengthen inequalities rather than reduce them. The people who benefit from computers and internet access are generally younger people, instead of the intended people who are older, disabled or unemployed.

  • Asia: Shaping our AI future

    I've been wondering how far artificial intelligence (AI) can go to make human life easier and, amid the current pandemic, safer. A good place to start is Japan, where AI is gaining ground in fields from fashion to elder care.

    For example, apparel companies hit by the pandemic have been tapping AI technology to boost sagging sales, using it to predict trending designs and colours.

  • Asia's big digital transformation

    Post-pandemic and over the long term, much of the digital shift towards the 'contact-free' economy is irreversible

    Roundtable panellists:

    • Yash Patodia, partner and portfolio manager, Wellington Management;
    • Fan Cheuk Wan, chief investment officer, Asia Private Banking and Wealth Management, HSBC;
    • Julie Koo, managing director head of Citi Investment Management Sales, APAC Citi Private Bank

    Moderator: Genevieve Cua, wealth editor, The Business Times

    ASIA is widely expected to pick up speed as a global economic powerhouse, post-pandemic. We ask the experts for their views on the likely impact Asia tech would make on digital transformation, and their strongest investible ideas.

  • Asian and European citizens see their cities as the ‘smartest’, finds 2023 IMD Smart City Index

    Asia and Europe dominate the top 20 in this year’s revamped IMD Smart City Index.

    The study, produced by The Smart City Observatory (SCO), part of the IMD World Competitiveness Center (WCC), combines hard data and survey responses to show the extent to which technology is enabling cities to address the challenges they face to achieve a higher quality of life for their inhabitants.

  • Asian countries are below average in e-government readiness: UN Survey

    The latest United Nation’s (UN) survey, measuring the readiness of member countries to adopt e-government, has found that many Asian countries are falling behind western nations.

    India, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand have not kept up with other countries.

    The UN E-Government Survey 2008, based on assessments of 192 U N member states, also shows software programming powerhouse India dropping 26 notches to 113 (down from 87th place in 2005), and the Philippines ranking 66, down from 41 in the 2005 index.

  • Asian countries fall in e-govt readiness

    Several countries in Asia have slipped in e-government readiness rankings, according to a new study released by the United Nations (U.N.).

    India fell 26 notches in the U.N. 2008 E-Government Readiness Index to 113th, compared to No. 87 in 2005, while the Philippines registered a rank of 66 in 2008, down from 41 in 2005.

    Singapore and Thailand each fell 16 spots from their 2005 ranking, occupying No. 23 and No. 62, respectively, in the latest index.

  • Asian governance and the 'Knowledge Economy'

    A more knowledge-intensive approach to governance will redefine how the public sector relates internally to its own agencies and its own employees.

    Stripped down to its bare essentials, e-government is concerned with leveraging and distributing knowledge more effectively – government-to-citizen (G2C), government-to-business (G2B) and inter-departmentally within government (G2G).

  • Asian Government ICT Project Priorities 2014

    Public sector ICT infrastructure is going through a phase of tremendous change: 2014 will set a new record for public sector ICT spending in the region, but also for the number of ICT projects that fail.

    On the one hand there is a wave of consolidation throughout the region as unsustainable legacy infrastructure is phased out. As a new free FutureGov Report - ‘Asian Government ICT Project Priorities 2014’ - indicates, IT departments are taking the time to review their strategic use of ICT, opening up new opportunities for vendors.

  • Asian governments eye gains from setting data free

    More of the huge reserves of information locked away in the basements of government buildings should be made available to the public. So say government modernisers in Hong Kong, South Korea and Australia following the news that the Mayor of London has sparked an “information revolution” in the British capital by putting data online for public consumption for the first time, free of charge.

    The ‘London Datastore’ web site, which is the same in principle to the Apps for Democracy initiative launched in Washington DC in 2008, gives London’s software developers the opportunity to unlock the commercial value of data and create applications that are useful for citizens, government and society as a whole.

  • Asian governments start to speak the same language on Linux implementations

    Could Asia become a Linux stronghold? It's positioning itself to become one, as governments here try to limit their dependence on the Windows operating system.

    Japan, South Korea and China have been in talks to promote alternatives to Windows, Linux, in particular. Japan has already put aside US$8.6 billion toward research in this area. And the Korean government is switching many of its computers from Windows to Linux, using Seoul-based Hancom Linux.

  • Asian Governments Start to Speak the Same Language on Linux Implementations

    Both China and India are developing their Linux expertise in anticipation of a market boom -- they're even designing economic policies around this. Other governments, such as Singapore and Taiwan, plan to move their server architectures from Windows to Linux.

    Could Asia become a Linux stronghold? It's positioning itself to become one, as governments here try to limit their dependence on the Windows operating system.

  • Asian govts lock horns on the future of e-service delivery

    Asian governments revealed their differences on how to boost the uptake of e-services in a rambunctious discussion at last week’s FutureGov Summit in Bali, Indonesia.

    Laurence Millar, the former Government Chief Information Officer of New Zealand, sparked the debate with a question to a panel of senior officials on the future of governance and spend management.

  • Asian govts need to relook approach to sourcing

    The same Asian administrations that have been quick to innovate in their use of technology have been slow to explore new ways of sourcing services and skills.

    At the Malaysian government's 8th annual Multimedia Super Corridor International Advisory Panel summit last week attention was focused on the region's current boom in outsourcing. But as the audience sat through an endless series of powerpoint slides, it became clear that one vertical was being uncharacteristically slow to reexamine its approach to sourcing - government.

  • Asian states to step up eGovernment spending

    Annual spending by Asia-Pacific governments on the electronic delivery of services is projected to exceed 1.4 billion US dollars in four years' time, an independent report said.

    Governments in the region will assign a higher priority to spending in this area after realizing that it can sharpen an economy's competitive edge, technology research house International Data Corp. (IDC) said.

  • Asiatische Länder wollen Linux-Einsatz koordinieren

    Treffen von hochrangigen Regierungsvertretern aus Japan, China und Südkorea

    Die asiatischen Länder wollen den Einsatz von Linux koordinieren. Bei einem Treffen von hochrangigen Regierungsvertretern aus Japan, China und Südkorea am kommenden Samstag soll die Verwendung von Linux als Microsoft-Alternative besprochen werden, gab ein Sprecher des japanischen Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry bekannt.

  • Can facial recognition tech boost Asia’s biometric acceptance?

    • Biometric facial recognition technology is becoming increasingly accepted, including in Southeast Asia
    • Papago has developed Face8, a popular face recognition tech across industries in Taiwan, which has begun to make inroads in SEA

    It was not too long ago that biometric identification methods became accepted means to authenticate a customer’s identity in the financial services sector. First fingerprints became commonplace, followed by voice recognition tech

  • China, Japan, S.Korea Sign Arrangement on Information Cooperation

    China, Japan and South Korea information ministers signed arrangement on Monday in South Korean Jeju island on information and communication cooperation.

  • Cloud adoption still low among Asian cities

    Concerns over high upfront costs and associated risks are hindering the adoption of cloud computing in the region, where only 22.2 percent of Asian cities have deployed it, according to Microsoft-CityNet research.

    Cloud adoption in Asian cities remain low with governments harboring concerns about high upfront costs and associated risks such as data security and legal requirements.

  • CN: Shanghai leads Asia's smart city race

    A new study from Juniper Research has selected Shanghai as the leading smart city in Asia in 2023.

    The top 5 smart cities ranked by Juniper Research are:

    1. Shanghai
    2. Seoul
    3. Shenzhen
    4. Sydney
    5. Beijing

    Juniper Research’s ranking of 50 world cities is based on an evaluation of many different smart city aspects, covering transportation and infrastructure, energy and lighting, city management and technology, and urban connectivity.

  • Collaborative service delivery for public sector

    The time is right for governments to move from agency-based services to pan-government services, says Oracle Corporation.

    If governments are going to fully realise the value of their information communication technology (ICT) investments they are going to have to bring greater coherence to the way different agencies deliver citizen service. That was the key message of Weng-Yew Lai, Solutions Director for eGovernment with Oracle, who was discussing the next stage of development for government service delivery.

Zum Seitenanfang