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RSS ministriesLuxembourg Elects Responsive, Resilient Infrastructure to Support E-Government
White Paper Luxembourg divides its national IT infrastructure into four major computing centers: one for statistics, one for police work, one for social security and a fourth - CIE - for all other government ministries. [03 Jul 2008]
The Ontario Ministry of Transportation: Standardized and Streamlined Service Desk Delivers Improved Service and Functionality to the End User
White Paper The Ministry of Transportation (MTO) is one of the larger Ministries within the Ontario Public Sector (OPS). The MTO needed to standardize on one Helpdesk solution that encompassed ITIL process definitions, and would become a reusable model for... [03 Jul 2008]
Kommunale Datenverarbeitungszentrale (KDVZ): Helping to Make Government More Responsive in Germany
White Paper The German Federal Government issued a mandate calling for the broad rollout of e-government, from Federal ministries to the local agencies. The demand for customer service has grown in the private sector, so has the demand for more convenient and... [03 Jul 2008]
Flemish Government Deploys Best Practice Decision-Making Infrastructure, Powered By Cognos Business Intelligence
White Paper The Ministry of the Flemish Community has from its very beginnings been composed of diverse former federal ministries. The Welfare, Public Health and Culture Department is one of the seven departments at the Ministry of the Flemish Community. [03 Jul 2008]
Predicting How Moscow Votes
White Paper A federal agency, Kontour offers services that are used by various ministries, government departments, and the Russian parliament. A key area of focus is researching and forecasting the results of presidential, parliamentary, and regional elections. [03 Jul 2008]
Training Teachers Across a Diversity of Contexts: An Analysis of International Evaluation Data on the Intel Teach Essentials Course, 2006
White Paper The Intel Education Initiative seeks to form a trusted partnership with ministries of education in countries across the world to support educational reform by integrating technology into project-based learning environments. [14 Nov 2007]
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Enables Unattended Installation of Operating System and Applications in Less Than an Hour
White Paper Taking advantage of Remote Installation Services (RIS) and Group Policy features in the Microsoft Windows XP Professional operating system, the Corporate Services Division Information Technology Management Branch (ITMB), serving two British... [30 Aug 2007]
Cuba gripped by open source fever
News Cuba's customs service has already migrated to Linux, while the ministries of culture, higher education and communications are planning to do so, Rodriguez told the conference. The Cuban government is to migrate thousands of its computers to open... [19 Feb 2007]
Qatar University Centralizes and Automates Administrative Processes
White Paper The university wanted to enable all administrative work previously performed by government ministries to be performed in-house and eliminate manual, paper-based, and inflexible business processes. Founded in 1973, Qatar University offers high... [14 Dec 2006]
E-Cubed: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Support an Excellence Framework in the Canadian Federal Government
White Paper In Canada the Federal Treasury Board has set out a 'Management Accountability Framework' (MAF) to help Ministries and Agencies ensure the quality of services offered to Canadians, support good decision making and effect due diligence in the... [11 Aug 2006]
Is a fresh roaming row brewing in Brussels?
News It's thought that trade and industry are the only two out of the Commission's 25 constituent ministries to object to Reding's proposals. A row is brewing in the European Commission over plans to force mobile operators to slash their roaming charges... [07 Jul 2006]
German tax office opens door to Suse Linux
News Some German ministries are also using open source software, including the Federal Finance Office at the German Ministry of Finance, which has shifted its back-office operations to two large mainframe computers running Linux, and the German... [12 Jun 2006]
Ministries pledge to cut NHS bureaucracy
News One of the aims is for the ministries to reduce the time taken processing personal injury claims, which require healthcare staff to copy "thousands" of patient records on a daily basis. The government is trying to cut down on bureaucracy in the... [10 Mar 2006]
Opinion: E-government for all
Comment This happens for a number of reasons, frequently related to competitive suspicion and a deep-seated cultural reluctance to share information and authority between politicians and their personal fiefdoms in the shape of government ministries. [19 Dec 2005]
French military body to install Linux cluster
News A number of other ministries have already implemented open source, including the Ministry of Equipment, which is replacing 1,500 Windows servers with Mandriva Linux and the French Agriculture and Fishing Ministry, which is migrating Windows... [30 Sep 2005]
