The mission of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) of the Republic of the Philippines is to raise revenue for the government through the efficient collection of taxes, provide quality service to taxpayers and to ensure impartial and uniform enforcement of tax laws. In its role as the tax collection agency of the Philippines, the BIR is the pillar of the economy. As recently as 1998, however, tax collection was in a freefall, resulting in lower governmental revenues and higher budget deficits.

Land Registry is using SAS to decode data and to generate statistics and reports, detailing the performance of its mainframe computer system. The automated approach delivers major time savings and a significant reduction in the likelihood of errors occurring.

Denmark is among the leading countries in the world in benchmarking its hospitals' services. Using SAS Activity-Based Management, the Danish National Board of Health's system for diagnosis-related grouping (DRG) contributes toward creating a better overview and more precise hospital budgets and fees.

Government CIO Jeremy Godfrey has resigned before his three-year appointment ends with his last day slated for Feb 12, 2011, said the Hong Kong government Friday.

Continuing hospital upgrades and healthcare institutions building their IT infrastructure from the ground up will boost healthcare IT spending in India.

Singapore has appointed Accenture and ST Electronics to design and implement its Intelligent Energy System pilot project, which will jumpstart the use of intelligent metering and smart grids in its power industry.

Australian clinical research organization Novotech has implemented Oracle’s Siebel clinical trial management system to be the core platform for the firm’s clinical drug development and research.

Cosmetics firm Shiseido has employed the help of NEC Corporation to support the global deployment and operation of its core business IT system renovation based on SAP ERP 6.0.

Australia’s national broadband network may be on the brink of getting shelved after the country’s recent elections determined the loss of majority of the Labor party, who has been laboring for the implementation of the critical network project.

As part of a new push to weed out piracy in the country, China will inspect central and local government computers to ensure all the departments are using copyrighted software.