All posts tagged "ICT"

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  Brazil’s public sector reform bill advances through congress

  A bill that aims to shrink the state by cutting public sector pay and benefits has passed the committee stage in Brazil’s lower chamber of congress. The constitutional amendment –

  • Posted September 27, 2021
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  New Zealand’s digital chief Tim Occleshaw steps down

  Tim Occleshaw, a key player in New Zealand’s efforts to transform its digital services, has announced that he will be leaving the civil service in November. “It will be seven

  • Posted September 23, 2019
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  New Zealand beefs up IT security after government data breach

  New Zealand has clamped down on government agencies using unvetted IT service providers, following a data breach which saw a supplier inadvertently leak hundreds of people’s personal information.    The

  • Posted September 8, 2019
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  Asia closing digital gap with the West, report finds

  Singapore has overtaken the US in the support it provides for national digital transformation, according to analysis by the Economist Intelligence Unit, while Japan has inched ahead of the UK.

  • Posted January 7, 2019
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  E-government progress hampered by digital divide, UN report finds

  Denmark, Australia and South Korea have come top in a biennial United Nations survey of countries’ progress in implementing e-government. The survey, by the UN Department of Economic and Social

  • Posted August 6, 2018
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  Governments must act faster to help people make greater use of the Internet, OECD warns

  Governments around the world must act faster to help people and firms to make greater use of the Internet and remove regulatory barriers to digital innovation, OECD general secretary Angel

  • Posted June 28, 2016
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  Colin MacDonald, CIO for the government of New Zealand: Exclusive Interview

  New Zealand’s government chief information officer, Colin MacDonald, explains to Winnie Agbonlahor the digital innovations that prompted the OECD to make him chair of its e-leaders summit The OECD’s e-leaders’

  • Posted March 1, 2016
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  Queensland government goes online to cut costs

  The government of Queensland in Australia is moving its ICT operation to the cloud, in a bid to reduce costs by a reported AUS $13.7 million over the next three

  • Posted April 20, 2014
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  Fast-growing Philippines city uses IT to get ahead

  The mayor of a city in the Philippines has concluded that investment in IT will lead to economic prosperity for his electorate. Oscar Moreno, mayor of Cagayan de Oro City

  • Posted April 12, 2014
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  Middle East ICT spending set to top $32 billion in 2014

  Spending on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in the Middle East is set to exceed $32 billion in 2014, according to the latest predictions from the International Data Corporation (IDC).

  • Posted April 12, 2014
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