IDC Government Insights
In a new report, IDC Government Insights said that a new type of government cloud services, labeled "regional cloud hubs," will significantly change the way state and local governments procure online computing services.
IDC Government Insights said many governments across Asia-Pacific are delaying online interaction with their citizens until protective policies for security guidelines are defined.
A new IDC Government Insights report showed that US federal government agencies have allotted 8 percent of their total IT budget for 2012 on average.
A new report by IDC Government Insights revealed that for governments to evolve from 'open and transparent government' to 'smart government', it needs to maintain multiple information and service channels.
Governments across the Middle East and Africa (MEA) are increasingly looking to utilize public-private partnerships (PPPs) to gain efficiencies, mobilize additional resources, and extend services to their citizens, residents, and visitors, according to the latest research from International Data Corporation (IDC).
As governments in the Asia-Pacific region begin to create high-value jobs by developing a services-based economy, they also begin lowering entry barriers to attract IT multinational corporations (MNCs) with the intention of incubating local businesses. IDC Government Insights, however, said that in pursuing this goal, governments are creating a monopoly and distorting the market's natural forces of supply and demand.
Despite the costly risks of data security breaches, 17.8 percent of public sector agencies in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan) actively choose to freeze investments in information security or decide not to secure certain public information in order to meet their IT budgets, a new study released by IDC Government Insights.
IDC Government Insights has introduced an information technology (IT) maturity model to help government entities assess their current level of compliance with Open Government initiatives and deliver services more effectively.
IT spending in the government sector in South Africa totaled $1.47 billion in 2010, largely on the back of egovernment initiatives, according to a recent report by market research firm IDC.
IDC Government Insights recently announced the availability of an information technology (IT) maturity model to help government entities assess their current level of compliance with Open Government Initiatives, and to learn how governments are transcending these initiatives to better serve citizens and deliver their missions more effectively.
