Governments need to develop strategies to bolster cyber security as their workforces become more mobile, an information security expert has urged. Asian governments need to educate public sector work forces on the risks posed by “the consumerisation of IT” …

Scott Goodstein, the brains behind United States President Barack Obama’s online election campaign, told delegates at a conference last week (Wednesday 10 June 2009) that the effectiveness of social media platforms as a communication tool for government is likely to wane – and fast – in the coming months…

Across Africa, elections are now becoming the de facto means of selecting political leaders; however, there is a dearth of elections information and knowledge online. As a means of contributing to resolve this problem, the African Elections Project was conceived to provide coverage of elections using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) across the continent. Thereby depending democracy on the continent and strengthening open societies via information and knowledge creation surroundi more...

The Indian government’s rollout of web-connected Common Service Centers (CSC) has been completed in the states of Jharkhand, Haryana and Sikkim, with more than 40,000 kiosks operational…

Singapore wants to sell its e-government model to the world. But do other countries want or need what Singapore is offering? FutureGov asked government information officers in India, China, South Korea and the Philippines…

The Head of Online Services at the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development has revealed the government’s plans to increase e-services from six to 35 per cent of business transactions by 2012. However, 60 to 80 per cent of e-government projects around the world fail, Dr Nabeel Al Qirim, Associate Professor, College of Information Technology, UAE University, warned in an interview with FutureGov…

Information Technology Amendment Act, 2008 (Act 2008) has recently amended the only cyber law of India, i.e. Information Technology Act, 2000 (IT Act, 2000). The same has “not been notified yet”. This means for all practical purposes the IT Act, 2000 still governs the position. Mr. Praveen Dalal, Managing Partner of Perry4Law, has suggested that the Congress led Government must openly declare that the Act 2008 would be given a “fresh look” in the forthcoming Parliament session. With issu more...

The economic gloom in the Philippines is doing little to dampen the uptake of IT services thanks to a number of public sector initiatives, according to a report from research firm Ovum...

Cyber law is gaining importance all over the World. China has become the latest country to adopt regulations pertaining to cyber law. A recent news report says that although the Western media has been awash with stories of Chinese hacking for years, cybercrime was until recently governed by three articles added to China's criminal code in 1997. The laws were out-of-date and 'failed to correlate proportionately with the tremendous social harm' caused by cybercrime, according to a recent paper on more...

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) announced today that the infocomm industry can look forward to more than 392 tenders worth a total of S$1.73 billion (US$1.18 billion) in financial year 2009.