Indonesia to use IT to help curb subsidized fuel sales
A new IT system to monitor quotas is the government's latest attempt to help it limit the costs of fuel subsidies for cars in Indonesia, which is eating away state funds.
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India may clip telco regulator's powers on license enforcement
India's department of telecommunications is looking at taking over some powers of sector regulator TRAI, including the monitoring of service quality and parameters for telecom network.
Taiwan NGO eyes e-learning potential in Vietnam
Institute for Information Industry signs agreement with a Vietnamese agency to build e-learning classrooms using products made by Taiwanese IT vendors.
India to computerize food distribution system
The government's plan involves digitizing the ration card and beneficiary database and computerizing its supply chain management to improve efficiency and transparency.
Self-service kiosk, VDI bag Singapore ICT accolades
Singapore Prison Service with its iKiosk initiative, and startup Puffersoft Labs with its improved virtual desktop technology are 2 of the 7 winners at this year's National Infocomm Awards.
Asia govts welcome OSS benefits
Asia's public sector agencies welcome the cost-effectiveness and customization abilities with open source software (OSS), but emphasize proprietary software should still be considered during procurement decision-making.
India to set up government group for Web governance
Expected to be formed within weeks, the new inter-ministerial group will allow views of all concerned ministries including the telecoms department to be discussed and for consensus to be reached.
India blocks several sites amid northeast exodus crisis
Government moves to block over 250 sites said to contain content doctored to incite Muslim retaliation on people originating from India's northeast, which spurred frenzied exodus of the latter.
China launches new campaign to fight online piracy
Government's latest campaign sees joint effort from four ministry departments to up supervision over Web service and content providers, and make guidelines for copyright protection and penalties, report says.
Twitter sees more govts requesting user info
Twitter's first Transparency Report shows more governments requesting user info within first half of 2012 than entire 2011, with U.S. and Japan topping list.