Please note that the public sector computerization pages are no longer updated. 

• Government Computerization Newsletter (Final issue posted on 17 September 2001)
• Links related to public sector computerization (Last updated on 4 May 2000)
• ESCAP's Y2K activities

The ESCAP Committee on Statistics recommended on 1 December 2000 that any IT-related activity under the statistics subprogramme should be directly relevant to statistical offices, see paragraph 90 of the report http://www.unescap.org/stat/cos12/e1214e.pdf : 

"90. The Committee supported the recommendation of the Bureau [of the Committee on Statistics] to retain public sector computerization in the Committee's terms of reference, but at the same time, to limit the scope of information technology activities of the statistics subprogramme so that they were directly relevant to the work of statistical offices. The Committee felt that such an interpretation was fully consistent with the preambular phrase in its terms of reference, whereby the Committee acted as the focus of regional statistical development. The Committee thus decided to leave its terms of reference unchanged."

The Committee's recommendation, which is to be endorsed by the fifty-seventh session of the ESCAP Commission in April 2001, has effectively halted all public sector computerization activities under the Statistics subprogramme. The marginal resources, which have been used to support the activities and this web site, are now being used to support statistical IT activities, information about which can be found elsewhere on the Statistics Division's web site. 

Although the old pages will be kept available for the time being, it is advisable to refrain from linking to them. Thank you.

• Considerations for ICT policy formulation in developing countries (Annex of Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 1999, http://www.unescap.org/drpad/pub3/Index.htm)
• Issues in computerization in the public sector - A paper for the 11th Session of the Committee on Statistics, 24-26 November 1998
• How can governments benefit from the Internet?   (A presentation in HTML format)

Public sector computerization was a small-scale activity under the ESCAP Committee on Statistics promoting the use of modern information technology in member and associate member governments. 

The ESCAP secretariat used to publish twice a year the Government Computerization Newsletter which had a circulation of 700 hard copies, mainly within public sector organizations and libraries in the Asia and Pacific region. 

To encourage intercountry contacts and exchange of information, the secretariat was maintaining a list of government IT links for policy makers, executives and IT managers in the public sector. 

Thank you for visiting.