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Monday, 16.09.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

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  • Vietnam: Local officials study Singapore’s public service model

    Key officials of Ba Ria-Vung Tau province are attending on-site training courses on the public service model in Singapore – a nation known over the world for its high performance in the field.

    This is the first time the three consecutive courses are designed for leaders in the services sector, as well as those of districts and towns in the southern coastal province. The first course began on August 17.

  • Virtual Singapore Is More Than Just a 3-D Model, It’s an Intelligent Rendering of the City

    Planners of the $73 million Virtual Singapore project are working with government agencies to see how they might best make use of the simulated city.

    Technology leaders in Singapore want to visualize their island city-state in exquisite detail. They’re planning a Virtual Singapore, correct in every nuance: not just buildings and roads but also doors, windows, park benches and lampposts.

  • What delivery robots in Singapore can tell us about the future of smart cities

    From autonomous delivery robots to facial recognition payments systems, a new trial by Singapore’s JTC Corporation demonstrates how smart cities can go beyond smart facilities management towards smart retail and other applications.

    From March 2024, office workers at Singapore’s Woodlands North Coast, an upcoming mixed-use estate, will be able to pay for meals with a glance and order food delivery via autonomous robots. This is thanks to a new smart retail services trial by JTC Corporation, a government agency which drives sustainable industrial development initiatives in Singapore.

  • What it takes for Singapore’s digital ID system to succeed

    Strong data protection measures and private sector collaboration will be instrumental to the success of Singapore’s upcoming national digital identification system

    Singapore’s upcoming government-led national digital ID system needs strong private sector participation and security safeguards to succeed, according to Gemalto, a digital security specialist.

  • Why Singapore is moving to 3D maps for urban planning

    Seeing “tremendous” benefits from using new technique, says Urban Redevelopment Authority.

    Singapore has limited land, but its skyline is constantly changing. The city’s urban planning agency has found that 2D maps and physical models are not able to keep up with such a complex environment, its Chief Information Officer, Peter Quek said.

    The Urban Redevelopment Authority is now using 3D mapping to get a more realistic view of the city and simulate future scenarios, so agencies can plan their services better.

  • Why Singapore schools chose the public cloud

    The head of Ministry of Education’s (MOE) IT department has detailed reasons why the agency is forging ahead with plans to use Google Apps, in addition to a parallel move to standardise the Ministry’s operating environment, known as the ‘SOE (Schools)’ project. Speaking exclusively to FutureGov, Lim Teck Soon, IT Director of MOE, explained that the need to quickly roll-out new email, messaging and collaboration applications was the key driver.

    “We went ahead with the launch of a messaging system because we believe there is an urgent need for a resilient and scalable system to be ready in case of emergency when the messaging system becomes a critical component among teachers to interact and collaborate,” explained Lim. “Messaging is an optional item within the SOE (Schools) contract which is up for tender. In the event we are not satisfied with the current service provider, we will still have the option to leverage the SOE (Schools) platform for messaging.”

  • World Bank asks Bangladesh to follow Singapore in ICT

    The World Bank asked Bangladesh on Wednesday to follow experiences and practices of Singapore in information and communication technology (ICT) to achieve its vision for a digital country by 2021.

    "Digital Bangladesh has generated public excitement and support, challenged the government to new ways of working and thinking... and solve problems through ICT," said Ellen Goldstein, country director of World Bank in Bangladesh.

  • Yearender: Singapore heralds new era in e-Government

    Thanks to the continued efforts in the last two decades, Singapore, a city-state with a population of over 4 million, has now become one of the most advanced e- Governments in the world, which is undergoing a third major wave of industrial revolution brought about by rapid progress in infocomm technologies (ICT) and globalization.

    Singapore's success in e-Government lies in its strong leadership and clear vision, which is to be a leading e-Government to serve the nation and the Singaporeans in a digital economy by leveraging on infocomm.

  • ZA: 'Smart Nation' Singapore gives SA smart city advice

    South Africa must start small with its smart city ambitions, taking a ‘bite-sized’ approach and building on from there.

    So says Rahul Ghosh, director of Enterprise Singapore for Middle East and Africa, sharing best-practices South Africa can learn from the Asian city-state that is considered to be the poster child for smart cities around the world.

    Enterprise Singapore is an agency under the ministry of trade and industry in Singapore.

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