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Figure 5:8 Overall importance of emerging technologies.<br />
The individual technologies' ratings that respondents considered either somewhat + very<br />
important are represented in Figure 5:9. VoIP and IP telephony and Communication<br />
enabled applications are seen as the most important emerging technologies for<br />
government organization to consider.<br />
Wi-Fi, 3G (HSDPA), Synchronous collaboration and Remote security and Monitoring<br />
were also rated as very important to the future business of government organisations.<br />
The third highest rating was given to Mobile VPN data access, 3G WIMAX and Video<br />
Telephony. The 40% of participants were uncertain about the importance of emerging<br />
technologies. This means that government employees need to keep up with the latest<br />
technologies and they need to receive more training on the use of these important<br />
technologies and become aware of their potentials benefits.<br />
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