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Rail improvements may cost $900m

The ambitious plan to upgrade the ageing North-South and East-West MRT lines will be expanded and hastened by SMRT Corp and the Land Transport Authority (LTA), reported The Straits Times.

But this requires a bigger budget, with SMRT’s latest estimate at approximately S$900 million. The rail operator and LTA haven’t finalised the overall amount as yet, or how to split it.

Nevertheless, the agencies are not allowing costs to derail the improvement works, which involves a wider scope.

This includes replacing the signalling system, the power-supplying third-rail system and the wooden sleepers beneath the metal tracks.

Source : GURU – 13 May 2013

HDB wins eGov Excellence Awards for 3 e-services projects

Eighteen government services received awards for excelling in e-Government services at the inaugural e-Government Excellence Awards.

Six distinguished winner awards and 12 merit awards were given out in six award categories: Websites, e-Services, m-Services, Data Sharing, People Engagement and Shared System & Services.

The awards aim to recognise exceptional government initiatives that use information technology in an innovative way to enhance government operations, provide a more open and transparent government, and deliver impactful citizen services.

The Housing & Development Board (HDB) was awarded the eGov Excellence Awards for three projects.

HDB’s winning projects are MyDoc@HDB, Mobile@HDB, and HDB InfoWEB.

Two of the Land Transport Authority’s IT projects also won awards.

MyTransport.SG Mobile App emerged as the Distinguished Winner in the m-Services category, while its data sharing initiative DataMall@MyTransport.SG took home a Distinguished Winner award in the Data Sharing category for its contributions to the developer community.

LTA said DataMall@MyTransport.SG was conceived through a cloud computing programme in November 2011 with the aim of sharing LTA’s rich repository of land transport data such as public transport, traffic and geospatial data.

MyTransport.SG offers a wide range of information for all modes of land transportation – empowering commuters, motorists and cyclists in Singapore to make informed decisions and better plan their journey with information on the nearest bus-stops and taxi stands, nearest cycling paths, parking lot location and availability, traffic cameras, and real-time road conditions.

The award was given by the Ministry of Finance and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore.

The projects were chosen out of 93 submissions from 49 agencies.

Source : CNA – 30 Apr 2013