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Institute for eGovernment

Topping the chamber’s list, however, corruption remains the number one issue facing ICT and business in South Africa.

“If we cannot turn this around, we will continue to see large capital expenditure in ICT being compromised,” the chamber told BusinessTech.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his budget for next year proposed to set up Nenasala centers in every Grama Niladari division as a special project to broaden the access to IT facilities.

The 2013 budget has allocated 750 million rupees to set up an ICT center in each of 14,000 Grama Niladari (village officer) areas of the country.

Certain Government institutions such as District Secretariat, Registrar General’s Department and Registrar of Motor Traffic Department have already been able to apply their skills to provide an efficient service to the public. Some institutions are yet to applied of computerized service even after obtaining the training, she added.

The first and second workshop of the series were held in Colombo and Kandy and the third is scheduled to be held in Colombo on June 29 again, a Senior ICTA Official told the Daily News.

Officials who underwent the training in basic ICT were from Colombo District Secretariat, 13 Divisional Secretariats, Registrar General's Department, Pension Department and Ministry of Agricultural Development and Agrarian Services Ministry, she said further.

Secretary of the Public Management Reforms Ministry, P.B. Abeykoon, said a series of 10 workshops on the new policy were being held across the country.

Mr Abeykoon said knowledge of ICT among top Public Servants would “greatly help” improve public services.

The Malta Communications Authority (MCA) published the results of a survey on the use of ICT by minors.

The survey, carried out earlier this year among students attending primary school years 4 to 6 and secondary schools forms 1 to 4, confirmed that minors are generally “technologically savvy” and intense users of ICT applications.

Advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have dramatically changed the learning and teaching process, and have expanded new learning opportunities and access to educational resources beyond the domain of tradition.

The programme is being offered by TAPMI in collaboration with National Institute for Smart Government [NISG], Hyderabad with support from the Department of Information Technology Ministry of Communications & IT, and Government of India. TAPMI is the first management institute in the country to be selected to conduct a post graduate e governance programme for executives in collaboration with NISG.

Dr. Gwo Jiunn Huang of the Institute for Information Industry, said these three points were by Taiwan to become one of the world’s top ICT countries in the world.

“The Taiwan government has been helping in their ICT development and they have successfully moved from a manufacturing-based ICT to a service-driven ICT,” Huang said.

The Director of Human Resources in the President's Office, Public Sector Management, Mr Faisal Issa, said that there is need for more expertise and well trained ICT professionals in the public sector in order to ensure smooth implementation of e government.

Speaking during a two-day workshop on National and Sectoral Strategies for E-Government on Thursday in Dar es Salaam, Enock Mpenzwa, said that apart from the shortage those available were under utilised.

Improving employees’ hard and soft skills is necessary to digitally transform organisations, experts said at the “Synergising Digital Leadership with People Leadership to Achieve Breakthroughs in 2022" webinar on Thursday.

Studies conducted by several institutions worldwide show that 70 per cent of organisations failed to achieve digital transformation because their staff was not ready for the change.

Supported by Korean Funds-in-Trust, this project spanned seven countries, namely Malaysia, The Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and China.

At one end of the continuum, talk is dominated by words like ‘transformation.’ This is, if you will, a largely ‘developed’ country sort of discourse, where new technologies and approaches are layered upon older approaches and technologies in systems that largely work, at least from a global perspective. While the citizens of such countries may talk about a ‘crisis’ in their education systems (and may indeed have been talking about such a crisis for more than a generation), citizens of many other, much ‘less developed’ countries would happily switch places.

It's easy to see the benefits of cloud computing, and moving to the cloud is often an easy decision to make - at least, in theory. In practice, of course, it's not just a single decision; there are a huge number of other questions that also need to be answered. One of those questions is which deployment model to go for: public or private cloud?

Crucially, the difference between public and private clouds is all to do with tenancy: a public cloud has many users, while a private cloud is used by a single organisation. It has nothing to do with access (you can run private services in a public cloud, or vice versa) or with ownership (a third party can own and operate your private cloud for you).

Technology has opened up new prospects in every aspect of our lives.

When Covid-19 struck, technology provided new platforms in education – dramatically changing the way learning and teaching was conducted.

The pandemic transformed ways of working, living, and relating on a global level. As a result, the education sector has had to adapt, driven by the need to digitalise education and training to remain competitive and provide high-quality education.

Keeping momentum going is now the challenge facing Estonia's IT education sector.

Over the last few years the number of students in higher education in Estonia has dropped significantly - from 67,600 in 2011 to 55,200 in 2014, according to Statistics Estonia. The fall is largely due to fall in the number of young adults in the country - after the birth boom in the mid to late-1980s, the birth rate dropped drastically in the early 1990s.

The change has put pressure on universities across the country, with competition intensifying for the shrinking student population. ICT, however, has been one of the winners in the fight to attract new students.

In recent times, the world has witnessed a rapid increase in technological innovations, one of which is computer. At present, the computer technology has permeated nearly all aspects of human organisational roles and education. A welcome development which is due to the benefits associated with it especially in providing a convenient technique for designing and developing dynamic interaction between students and instructional programme.

The Ministry informed that the seminars were held to apply information technologies in regional (city) departments of Ministry of Culture and Tourism for their readiness for E-Government State Programme.