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"The development of information technology and satellite launch creates great opportunities for cooperation with other countries, including with Estonia. A good example of this cooperation is the creation of the most important link of "electronic government" - its electronic portal by the Estonian company Subernet together with local companies," Mammadov said.

Addressing the meeting, Mammadov spoke about the work carried out in the ICT sector in Azerbaijan and activities that will be undertaken this year, namely the implementation of the broadband internet project and expansion of fiber-optic infrastructure in remote areas.

He said issues will be considered during the two-day joint workshop on ICT, which started today. The Korean side's delegation includes representatives from 22 enterprises and companies.

The project includes the creation of 15 training centres in the regions. These will be established in Ganja, Nakhchivan, Sumgait, Mingachevir, Barda, Lankaran, Gazakh, Zagatala, Imishli, Gabala, Goychay, Shirvan, Shamakhi, Guba and Sheki.

Bangladeshi ICT entrepreneurs Saturday sought training and business supports from their Indian counterparts for the betterment of the sector in Bangladesh.

They stressed the need for cooperation from the entrepreneurs of the neighbouring country, which is leading the ICT business globally, at a seminar on “ICT Development in Bangladesh: Opportunities and Challenges” in Dhaka.

They also urged their Indian counterparts to assist Bangladesh in winning a larger share of the global IT business.

Bangladesh has a huge shortage of skilled IT professionals as the educational institutions in the country cannot produce the expected number of skilled people, said Mustafa Jabbar, president of Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS), the national association of ICT companies.

The agreement was signed in Vilnius on 23 November 2012. The Foreign Ministry was instructed to send a notification about Belarus' fulfillment of the domestic procedures required for this agreement to come into force.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by eGovernment Authority Strategy Business Process Reengineering & Enterprise Partnership Director Mr. Nezar Maroof on behalf of eGovernment Authority CEO Mohammed Ali AlQaed and KOTRA's Vice President Jong Kyung Kim.

Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority (BEDIA) and Singapore Information Communication Technology (ICT) Federation last week signed a memorandum of agreement which will lead to increased knowledge sharing in the ICT field.

According to the spirit of the agreement, Singapore ICT companies will be able to partner with local companies whenever they find opportunities in other African countries.

Zum weiteren Aufbau einer effizienten und serviceorientierten Verwaltung strebt die Landesregierung eine enge Verzahnung mit wissenschaftlichen Instituten und universitären Einrichtungen aus Brandenburg an. Die erste Vereinbarung dazu wurde jetzt geschlossen: Das Ministerium des Innern des Landes Brandenburg und das IfG.Research - The Institute for eGovernment in Potsdam vereinbarten eine auf fünf Jahre angelegte Kooperation.

Haji Awang Alaihuddin bin POKDSL Dato Seri Utama Haji Awang Mohd Taha, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Communications spoke at the Brunei Darussalam-India Joint Working Group on Communication and Information Technology Meeting yesterday.

"The MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed today paves the way for cooperative activities, including joint studies and workshops on e-government, the establishment of countermeasures to mitigate any adverse effects of e-government such as the provision of support for the establishment of information security policy and technology, and also mutual human resource development in ICT through personnel interchanges," said a press release from the signing.

The signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS), Republic of Korea, on cooperation in the area of e-Government was held at the Empire Hotel and Country Club yesterday morning.

The purpose of this committee is to allow working-level officials to decide and implement avenues of the cooperation, which will best benefit Brunei's relatively novel e-Government system and yield as much as possible from, according to the United Nations, the top e-Government system in the world.

According to Park II (picture), "The Korea Embassy of Brunei would like to place a special meaning on the recent MoU because it is a follow-up action to the summit between His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam and President Lee Myung-bak which was held in June 2009, in Jeju Island, S Korea."

Also the Counsellor and Deputy Chief of Mission at the Korea Embassy, he mentioned that during the talks, the two leaders agreed to strengthen cooperation between Brunei and S Korea in areas of ICT.

Manager of Projects at the NISG Mr Amit Chakravarty (pic) spoke to the Sunday Bulletin in an interview Friday night at a dinner held at the residence of Acting Indian High Commissioner Mr Rakesh Kumar.

"The Government of India and the Government of Brunei have signed an agreement on cooperation in the areas of ICT," said Mr Chakravarty. "Under that agreement, AITI is the focal point for Brunei, and NISG is the focal point fox India."

"Most of the good things (about e-Government) are already known globally to the public, including here in Brunei. Good things did not come in a smooth way but it's a struggle. I introduced (to the audience) the types of struggle that South Korea experienced, lessons for the followers.

The agreement was signed in June by the Bulgarian Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski, and the Chinese Minister of Industry and Information Technology Miao Wei.

In 2011, Bulgaria will allocate about 35 million leva under the EU's administrative capacity operational programme for the project, Deputy Finance Minister Boryana Pencheva said.