Singapore Government
In Asia, you can count on the Singapore government to lead in IT innovations and e-governance. This time, it is leading the move to the cloud.
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has secured two key tenders awarded by the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) to deploy a private cloud computing infrastructure for the Singapore government.
The Singapore government is revamping the format of the National Infocomm Competition (NIC) to include a new category for primary school students, as well as new competitions across all categories to further expose students to regional and international platforms.
NIIT Technologies recently announced the successful implementation of an automated Content Management and Delivery system for the Singapore Parliament. The new system enables the recording and archiving of parliament proceedings.
The Singapore government has partnered with prominent Singaporean enterprises and organizations to offer scholarships for citizens who wish to study at a local autonomous university or the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT).
Now the world's top country for doing business, pro-enterprise Singapore is further introducing innovations to the ease of doing business in the city-state with a new integrated business licensing system that would further simplify business procedures for investors.
The Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) and Exploit Technologies Pte Ltd, (ETPL), both units of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), have entered into a research and development (R&D) agreement with Huawei to co-develop new areas of infocomm technologies in Singapore.
Accenture has named Control4 as its partner in a $30-million Singapore power project.
According to a Singapore government study, 88% of e-citizens believe local e-government services can be improved by utilizing Web 2.0 technologies. Citizens are calling for more effort to be made to push Web 2.0 communities.
A massive upgrade to computers and networks used by government agencies in Singapore is underway and on schedule, according to the agency that oversees the program. The S$1.3 billion (US$888.6 million) Standard ICT Operating Environment (SOEasy) project is the largest IT project yet undertaken by the tech-savvy 12next ›last »
