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Ms
Foo Yeen Loo, Executive IT Consultant,
Electronic Services Division, IDA
(far left), receiving the prestigious
Stockholm Challenge award on behalf
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eCitizen portal has bagged another prestigious award.
Named winner of the e-government category in the
prestigious Stockholm Challenge 2002 in Sweden,
it was distinguished from the rest of the 18 finalists
selected from 90 submissions from worldwide.
The Stockholm Challenge is an international competition
that acknowledges pioneering IT projects for excellence
in harnessing information and communications technology
to benefit society. Winning entries were selected
based on four major criteria - innovation, meeting
users’ needs, transferability and accessibility.
Winning the Stockholm Challenge is another recognition
of the Singapore government’s initiative in
delivering public services online. Other finalists
in the category included projects from Canada, India,
the UK and the US.
At the prize giving ceremony in Stockholm City Hall,
the chief of the jury delivered this citation for
Singapore: “Singapore was the first to arrange
portal information by life events, where the events
require contact with the government. Very few government
portals have integrated portal content this well.
It is a difficult thing to do. Singapore, however,
did not wait for the rest of the world to catch
up. Instead it upgraded, added new features, new
content and made it even easier to use.”
On winning the award, Ms Tan Swee Hua, Director
of Electronic Services Division, Government Chief
Information Officer, Infocomm Development Authority
(IDA), said, “We are indeed very happy to
have won such a prestigious award in an international
competition. The win is a testimony that when all
government agencies are committed to work together,
we can serve the public better, as shown in the
case of the eCitizen portal.”
Mr Panneer Selvan, Director (Central Services),
Ministry of Finance, added, “This award was
only possible due to the collective work and efforts
put in by all government agencies. I would like
to thank in particular the eCitizen Town Owners
for all their efforts over the last few years.” |
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NEW
BIMONTHLY COLUMN
“Excellence at Work” is
a new column that focuses on the continuous
efforts to improve systems and processes
to achieve total organisational excellence
in the Public Service. It features the
programmes under the Managing For Excellence
framework, which focus on various key
areas, each developed by a lead agency,
that can help public sector agencies
achieve sustainable organisational excellence.
This column will feature articles from
various lead agencies to keep public
officers informed of new initiatives
and interesting developments. Kicking
off this column is an article contributed
by IDA and the Ministry of Finance -
Central Services on a notable achievement
for Singapore’s e-government initiative. |
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