香港政府
GIS新聞處
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1975.
MORE GOVERNMENT PROJECTS NOW COMPUTERISED
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THE DATA PROCESSING DIVISION IS HELPING MORE GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS TO COMPUTERISE THEIR PROJECTS TO ACHIEVE GREATER EFFICIENCY.
SITUATED AT NEW MERCURY HOUSE, THE DATA PROCESSING DIVISION SERVES AS THE GOVERNMENT'S CENTRAL COMPUTER BUREAU.
CURRENTLY, IT IS HANDLING SOME 40 SYSTEMS FOR 13 GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS.
A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DIVISION SAID THAT DURING THE PAST TWO YEARS, COMPUTER USAGE BY GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS HAD INCREASED FIVEFOLD.
+ACCORDINGLY, HE SAID, +OUR COMPUTER RENTAL HAS GONE UP THREEFOLD AND OUR NUMBER OF PROGRAMMERS AND SYSTEMS ANALYSTS BY NO LESS THAN FOURFOLD.+
+EVEN THIS EXPANSION DOES NOT REFLECT THE INCREASED LEVEL OF ACTIVITY,+ HE SAID.
DURING THE PAST THREE YEARS, THE DIVISION'S INVESTMENT IN THE USE OF CONTRACTORS HAS INCREASED FROM ALMOST NIL IN 1972 TO MORE THAN $5 MILLION IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR.+
THE DIVISION EXPECTS TO IMPLEMENT 10 NEW APPLICATIONS BETWEEN LATE 1975 AND 1976. AMONG THEM ARE THE 1976 BI-CENSUS AND WATER WORKS BILLING.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THE DIVISION'S ROLE IN THE BI-CENSUS WOULD BE TO PROCESS INFORMATION GATHERED FROM A 10 PER CENT SAMPLE OF THE POPULATION, WHICH WOULD AMOUNT TO ABOUT 78,000 HOUSEHOLDS OR 450,000 PEOPLE.
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WATER WORKS BILLING, HE SAID, WOULD INITIALLY INVOLVE INDUSTRIAL ACCOUNTS ONLY AND THE DIVISION'S WORK WOULD BE THE ISSUE OF DEMAND NOTES, REMINDERS AND THE UPDATING OF PAYMENT RECORDS.
IN FUTURE, THE MOST HEFTY COMMITMENT OF THE DIVISION IS THE VEHICLE AND LICENSING DATA SYSTEM **(VALID)**.
/BY THEN
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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