Our distinguished speakers will share strategies on how to improve government information and service delivery, encourage citizen participation in the policy-making process and enable the government to become more accountable, transparent and effective.

Featured Speakers:

• Jong Sung Hwang, Executive Vice President – IT, National Information Society Agency Korea who will trace the development of ubiquitous services and U-cities in Korea

• Yasuhiko Taniwaki, Director for ICT Strategy Policy Division, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan who will share a case study on how Japan adopted cloud computing and saved costs in the process

• Andrew Unsworth, Head of E-Government, The City of Edinburgh Council, UK who will review collaborative procurement efforts across government and the development of shared procurement services

• Jonathan Gray, Director, Australian e-Government Technology Cluster, National ICT Australia Limited who will showcase how to implement effective corporate governance of ICT projects through establishing a proper framework and via innovative modelling and simulation tools

• Wasantha Deshapriya, Director - Re-engineering Government Programme, Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka who will highlight how to drive the implementation of m-services and deploy the central infrastructure for m-services

• Silvester Prakasam, Director, Fare Systems, Land Transport Authority, Singapore who will address the issue of building a national infrastructure to develop e-payments