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The National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) launched its official Website last Thursday after a seven-year planning period.

Present at the launching ceremony, held at the Government IT Centre, was the Minister of Health John Maginley, General Manager of the NSWMA Denise Roberts, Chief Health Inspector Lionel Michael and Dorbrene Omarde, chairman of the NSWMA Board and other members of the NSWMA management team.

Banks may lead industry push for secure cards

The UK government is seeing widespread interest from firms mulling the use of national identity (ID) cards, the civil servant in charge of the controversial scheme revealed at a European ID cards event last week.

Speaking at a conference in Brussels organised by e-business lobby group Eema, Katherine Courtney said that the government had been consulting the public and private sectors to develop usage cases for the proposed cards.

Das Beobachtungssystem senSAVE bietet telemedi­zinische Betreuung rund um die Uhr. senSAVE ist ein Beobachtungssystem aus intelligenten Sensoren, die per Funk miteinander vernetzt sind. Die Sensoren sind in ein Hemd integriert und erfassen drahtlos EKG-Werte.

Weitere, am Körper getragene Sensoren messen andere wichtige medizinische Daten wie Blutdruck und Sauerstoffgehalt im Blut. Das System bewertet daraus den körperlichen Zustand, erkennt zuverlässig Verschlechterungen und alarmiert im Notfall den Arzt. Letzteres geschieht über eine Online-Anbindung zur Arztpraxis, zur Klinik oder zu einem medizinischen Service-Center. Der Arzt erhält so von senSAVE wichtige Daten für Diagnose und Therapie.

In line with the government’s effort towards self-sufficiency, the country has maximized the benefit of modern communications technology. We have been called the "texting capital of the world’’ because of the millions of cellular phone users in the urban areas. The use of cellphones continues to spread in the country, especially among our agricultural producers under the Techno Gabay program of the Department of Science and Technology (DoST).

A key Cabinet Office unit with responsibility for public sector reform is being quietly broken up

The government has disbanded the Office of Public Service Reform (OPSR) without making any formal announcement, Government Computing News can exclusively reveal.