According to IDC, the drive for e-Government, operational efficiency and the pressure to build an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) savvy nation is fuelling strong growth in IT spending for the public sector in the Asia Pacific region.
In order to comply with the e-Government requirement for all local authorities to provide online school admissions facilities for the September admissions round, the 33 London boroughs have worked together to provide a system via a single portal.
An outline for action plan for Scottish Enterprise Borders (SE Borders) was made for the heading year.
The federal government of Belgium plans to switch to the Open Document Format (ODF) by September 2008.
Lancashire County Council has selected the Jadu Galaxies content management system to power both its new
IBM has clinched a MoU with the Government of Uttar Pradesh to give impetus to e-Governance by providing quality training to IT students under an ambitious programme titled Project INVITE (Initiative to Nurture a Vibrant IT Ecosystem).
The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of associations, academia and industry dedicated to improve the accessibility to electronic government documents held the first national event in support of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) at New Delhi, which will change the way data is managed across the globe.
The European Commission has launched a school competition for young people to find a new name for the environmental monitoring system GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security).
The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA), India, is going to introduce e-Governance to bring transparency, efficiency, cost effectiveness and delivery on time for the approvals of construction in the city.
