IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

These programmes include 100 training hours introduced this year at all levels to enhance skills, ability and to contribute towards the effectiveness of the organization continuously.

Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), Pehin Dato Paduka Awg Hj Hazair Hj Abdullah, made these remarks at the launching of the Enterprise Data Centre (EDC) at the Secretariat Building in the capital, which he officiated.

The report highlights the key role of ICT as an enabler of a more economically, environmentally and socially sustainable world.

This is Brunei’s second entry into the report and this time a rise has been seen under the “Readiness” category, where it was given the overall rank of 5155, with Business Readiness rising from 67th to 37th and Government Readiness rising from 45th to 29th, though Individual Readiness has fallen from 40th to 76th.

His Majesty delivered the titah yesterday during the launch of the National Summit on Information Society (NASIS) at the International Convention Centre in Berakas.

Launched in conjunction with the e-Government Strategic Plan 2009-2014, the key objective of the survey is to seek feedback from citizens to further improve the government services provided to the people (”Rakyat”) by providing a multiple channel of delivery to citizens.

Starting from September 1, 2003, the process of physically delivering diskettes to banks containing EFT payments will be replaced by electronic transfers of these files. Likewise for bank statements, banks will now transfer 'eStatements' to TAFIS.

Dyg Masni Hj Mohsin, Acting Director of Brunei Industrial Development Authority (BINA) said that local SMEs could further enhance and achieve competitiveness and the viability of their business through eBINA which is part of the Ministry of Industry and Primary Resources eGovernment initiative.

The impact that the Internet has brought upon society as a whole opens wide opportunities to distribute education and training afforded by the Internet, and offers challenges as earlier paradigms have already been applied to such a technology. Students now clamour on simple online access to course materials and this results in an urgent move towards a change in the instructional delivery.

The lecture held in tandem with the Prime Minister's Office was an informative course of dialogue regarding `Open Source Software' (OSS), in particular the expansion and OSS initiatives that have been implemented within the public sector in Malaysia.

This was highlighted as the ministerial panel convened Monday for a discussion centering on 'How can the Asia-Pacific make the best use of e-governance technology?'

Minister of Home Affairs Pehin Orang Kaya Johan Pahlawan Dato Seri Setia Hj Adanan BPSK Dato Seri Setia Hj Md Yusof said this yesterday, stating that this is in line with the ministry's long-term strategic plan of "increasing human resource capability".

The early analysis conducted by experts at the United Nations recently found that the e-Government Services for Brunei Darussalam is at the developing level in view of the fact that services online are non-existent. According to the Deputy Permanent Secretary of IT and e-Government at the Prime Minister's Office, Awang Abdul Mutalib in his capacity as the overall government CIO, the e-Government National Centre gives priority to identifying and implementing any services online that will be provided to the public.

In an interview, Dayang Hajah Mariah stated that re-organization and improvement of the public organizations, human capacity building and how to measure performance of e-Government project is undeniably significant to make a government successful. She added one of the top priorities shown from a recent survey done by the National E-government Centre will be putting more services online for the ease of the public.

The Ministry of Education signed a deal yesterday with local firm TechnoNet Sdn Bhd on the provision of the Enterprise Service Portal, which looks set to top all enterprise information management (EIM) systems in scale and functionality.

According to Awang Haji Azhar, e-Government actually gives more improvement in delivering government services especially to the 3 main stakeholders comprising the citizens, businesses and civil services. In a citizen survey conducted in 2009 added the Deputy Permanent Secretary, they found out that Education services was one of the top priority that the citizens wants the government to look into. This includes suggestion that the government provides the facility for online applications including students transfer to another school, registration, and application for business licences.

A dialogue session was held yesterday in an effort to adopt appropriate steps to tackle any difficulties that may arise in the adoption of e-government.

In keeping with His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam's policy of good governance that has been mentioned in the Royal titahs in recent times this latest move by the Prime Minister's Office has already generated positive responses not only here but also abroad.

David Abberton, chief executive officer of BAG Networks and secretary of the Infocom Federation Brunei, commented that quite few parts of the e-government infrastructure was in place, such as the networks, network, websites and ready availability of information online, as well as some transactional services.

Participating in yesterday's visit was Her Royal Highness Pg Anak Isteri Pg Anak Sarah Pg Salleh Ab Rahaman.