The project entitled ‘E-Government for Women’s Empowerment’ is the first of its kind in Asia and the Pacific to address the gender dimension of e-government by providing new tools to assist governments to design, develop and implement e-services that can respond to the needs of women.
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), in partnership with the UN Project Office on Governance (UNPOG) of the Division for Public Administration and Development Management, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), is implementing a new project to help close the online gender gap in the region.
Weiterlesen: New UN initiative on e-governance to help close online gender gap in Asia-Pacific
Asia-Pacif9ic Region: Government connectivity a ‘prerequisite’ for economic growth - Cisco President
Tan was speaking following the release of a new FutureGov research report - ‘Government Connectivity, Citizen Engagement and Economic Impact in Asia Pacific’. Cisco partnered with FutureGov to produce the wide-ranging research project into governments in Australia, India, Malaysia and Singapore.
Telemedicine, broadly defined, is the provision of healthcare or medical information and services via communication networks such as telephone and broadband lines. Over the last few years, as broadband initiatives around the world became more pervasive, telemedicine has been "revived and revolutionized", said Sash Murkerjee, senior market analyst, IDC Health Insights Asia-Pacific.
Weiterlesen: Asia-Pacific: Telemedicine adoption 'disappointing' so far
Remarkable advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) are impacting people’s lives in a variety of ways. With ICTs, exchange of ideas and information can transcend great geographical distances and help realize the notion of a global village. Yet the benefits of ICTs do not stop at providing global interconnectivity. ICTs can serve as valuable tools with which to achieve inclusive, sustainable development at a national and regional level. Instances of ICTs being employed in areas including, but not limited to, distance learning, telemedicine, disaster risk reduction, and green growth corroborate this view.
Weiterlesen: Knowledge Sharing and Developing the Asia-Pacific
Guan Cuntai, program manager, intelligent systems for personalized and connected healthcare at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), noted that telemedicine deployment in the region is still in its early stage and yet to enter the mainstream.
Weiterlesen: Asia-Pacific: Favorable conditions to spur telemedicine adoption