Thailandโ€™s printer market grows 20.3 per cent

Growth attributed to Government requests for companies to work from home, where they can. The Thai Government has been appealing to all sectors to comply with the new Covid-19 restrictions by supporting work-from-home schemes where possible, as the number of daily new infections reached over 10,000. However, some businesses stillโ€ฆ

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NSW Department of Customer Service adds electronic data interchange

Added on top of existing services. Australian State Government agency, the New South Wales Department of Customer Service (NSW DCS) has extended an agreement with MessageXchange, a business-to-business integration solutions company, to now include EDI. The service will be available to the whole of NSW government, is known as Transactions.buy. NSWโ€ฆ

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Global government IT spending growth to hit 5 per cent in 2021

Government spending on devices and software to record highest increases YoY. Worldwide government IT spending is forecast to total US$483 billion in 2021, an increase of 5.1 per cent from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. โ€œGovernment organisations continue to be challenged with the appropriate level of interventionsโ€ฆ

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APAC Govts. push forth COVID-19 recovery ICT initiatives

Technology helped APAC region work through the pandemic, will it help in the recovery process? As countries in the Asia Pacific region takes steps to get their citizens back to a post-COVID normalcy, many are investing in technology as a driver to get the economy back into shape. Governments inโ€ฆ

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DevOps a way for governments to deliver security compliance

Itโ€™s an increasingly application-driven world. DevOps could be a key technology to help government agencies address security and compliance requirements, manage heterogeneous environments, and ongoing visibility in their IT infrastructure. In an increasingly application-driven world, the government sector is constantly challenged with prioritising resources and delivering services to citizens whileโ€ฆ

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AISA makes submission to Australiaโ€™s 2020 cybersecurity strategy

THE peak membership body for Australian information-security professionals, Australia Information Security Association (AISA) has prepared a detailed and comprehensive submission to the Federal Governmentโ€™s 2020 Cyber Security Strategy. According to the AISA everyone has become increasingly dependent on technology and more continuously connected online, the seriousness and impacts of disruptions,โ€ฆ

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AIIA says Australian Governmentโ€™s COVID-19 tracing app secure

Government launches contact tracing app to alert Australians of nearby COVID-19 infections The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) has thrown its support behind the Australian Governmentโ€™s recent launch of a COVID-19 Tracing App to the public. Download of the App is voluntary and was designed to digitally alert Australians ofโ€ฆ

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Singapore Budget 2020 offers tech opportunities and challenges

Singapore Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat signals country as โ€œglobal-Asia node of technology, innovation and enterprise in 2020 budget In his release of Singaporeโ€™s Budget 2020, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said structural changes in the country bring both opportunities and challenges.โ€ฆ

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