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The opening ceremony at the Royal Berkshire, Jerudong Park Polo Club, saw delegates from all the Asean members converging on Brunei to discuss Civil Service matters.

IPA Assistant Training Officer Dk Erna Liana Pg Hj Suhaili told The Brunei Times that the two-week programme was under the Initiative for Mean Integration (IAI) and WA.

Speaking to FutureGov, Singapore’s Minister for Communications and Information, Yaacob Ibrahim, shared, “Application of ICT in public sector is one of the key initiatives of the ASEAN ICT Masterplan 2015. But recognising that different states have different levels of development, ASEAN has left the implementation of these initiatives to the various states.”

The e-government center proposal was presented to the "ASEAN Plus Three Senior Officials' Meeting on Creative Management for Government" held in Seoul on the sidelines of the UN-sponsored Sixth Global Forum on Reinventing Government, which kicked off four-day meeting on Tuesday.

Asean nations will be able to share experiences and learn from each other to address the challenges that currently constrain development through regional integration.

From artificial intelligence and robots, to big data and clean energy, disruptive technologies are rapidly redefining our daily lives, our businesses and economies. And in our interconnected world, these deepening impacts of “Industry 4.0” should compel countries to prepare for changes.

Several Asean cities inked agreements with corporate partners in Singapore on Sunday (July 8), to gear up to become "smart cities".

The five agreements included a letter of intent between Chonburi's Amata Smart City in Thailand and the Yokohama Urban Solution Alliance, to work on a smart energy management system.

The legal and regulatory issues involved in the development of e-government policies that facilitate its growth and access to the technology need to be examined as well.

Vice President Jejomar Binay represented President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino in the 12th Asean Telecommunications and IT Ministers (TELMIN) meeting during November 15 and 16, noting that ASEAN is stronger when connected and in creating ICT jobs.

In its Mactan Cebu Declaration, ICT ministers from member-states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) said they are working towards the implementation of the proposed ASEAN Broadband Corridor and the establishment of an ASEAN Internet Exchange Network by 2015 to facilitate sharing of resources among Internet providers to improve access speed and lower costs.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) have held a seminar on digital transformation to share experience and best practices on digitalisation in the two regional blocs.

More than 100 participants from ASEAN and EAEU member states joined the event, which is part of the activities set out in the Programme of Cooperation to implement the memorandum of understanding between ASEAN and the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) for 2020-2025 period.

Big ideas from our flagship summit in short sentences.

We’ve just wrapped up our virtual flagship summit, AI x GOV! Speakers from all over Asia Pacific and the world discussed topics ranging from AI-driven citizen services and edutech to healthcare and cyber diplomacy.

Here are 10 big ideas on the future of public service innovation condensed into neat analogies.

A number of countries in ASEAN are trying to create smart cities or smart cities that rely on technology. This concept seems promising, but difficult to implement according to experts.

Although smart cities are synonymous with technology, some experts at the ASEAN-Japan Conference The 9th Science and Technology in Society (STS) discussion forum stated that this concept is more than just technology. The state also pays attention to several other things.

Smart cities have played a notable role in pandemic response, particularly by deploying digital technological solutions and innovative bottom-up approaches, acting as effective implementation channels of nationwide economic relief packages and in fortifying an urban low-carbon agenda through steep digital technology adoption.

Senior Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) Venkatachalam Anbumozhi highlighted this in a recent statement.

1. accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the Asian region through joint endeavors to strengthen the foundation for a prosperous and peaceful community of Southeast Asian nations, and
2. promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law in the relationship among countries in the Asian region and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter.

Stripped down to its bare essentials, e-government is concerned with leveraging and distributing knowledge more effectively – government-to-citizen (G2C), government-to-business (G2B) and inter-departmentally within government (G2G).

But its soon-to-be-finished computerization initiative is slowly ushering transformation within the bureau, and is significant enough for the agency to be named as the head of a regional project dubbed "ASEAN Single Window."

A seminar on ASEAN media's views on digital China was held online on Wednesday, where experts, diplomatic envoys, entrepreneurs and media professionals from China and ASEAN countries discussed the development and cooperation prospects of the digital economy and smart cities.

The year 2022 is special for China-ASEAN relations. It is the first year of the China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership. This year also marks the entry into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement.

If governments are going to fully realise the value of their information communication technology (ICT) investments they are going to have to bring greater coherence to the way different agencies deliver citizen service. That was the key message of Weng-Yew Lai, Solutions Director for eGovernment with Oracle, who was discussing the next stage of development for government service delivery.