UK: eAuctions Could Save Councils Millions
Local authorities in Wales could save council taxpayers millions of pounds on key contracts through online auctions, it's been predicted.Swansea Council in collaboration with neighbouring Neath Port Talbot has saved the authorities £650,000 over the next five years after securing just one contract via e-Auction.
Swansea's Cabinet meeting endorsed the securing of a contract with a company from Llanelli for tinned and dried foods that will be worth about £1.3m a year.
South Africa: Many Government Websites Hacked
During the course of Sunday night, a hacker group succeeded in bring down twenty Government websites.The group, referred to as the Beyond Hackers Team claims that they operate from Chile, South America.
Knowing well that they infiltrated South African Government websites, the hackers left the following message on the hacked sites: South Africa Government Server... hohoho - pwned by byond crew!! Chile.
Yemen: Never-ending bureaucracies
One of the diseases that developing countries Arab countries in particular - have in common, is an agonizing bureaucracy. How many times have you experienced waiting in a long queue to process your paper work, while governmental employees are chatting with each other and sipping their morning tea?How many times have you tried to have an employee hurry up in signing the papers as you still have plenty of other work to do, and see this employ looking over the papers of another file and laughing with his fellow employee and eventually tells you, I guess you will have to come tomorrow?
UAE:Implementation of eProject system for tracking fed. gov't projects reviewed
The UAE Ministry of Finance and Industry (MoFI)'s e-government team today discussed the latest developments in the implementation plan of eProject system with H.E Ibrahim Abdul Malik, Under Secretary- Ministry of Public Works (MoPW).Held in the Ministry of Public Works headquarter, the meeting was attended by Dr. Emir Mavani, the Federal e-Government Programme Director at MoFI, and officials from eCompany Etisalat's one-stop e-powerhouse business unit which is the technical partner of Federal e-government for all the ICT needs of the project.