The e-payment project which is linked to a number of Ministries or government agencies have been identified and will be given priority. Apart from that, in 2 years time, starting this year, 27 thousand civil servants have been targeted to take part in training programmes as part of the efforts to further strengthen and expand the ICT capacity in the country's civil servants. The Deputy Permanent Secretary of I-T and e-Government at the Prime Minister's Office, Awang Abdul Mutalib bin Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Setia Dato Paduka Hj Mohd Yusof, as the Overall Government C-I-O explained the strategies that have been planned to realise the desire and target contained in the e-Government Strategic Plan 2009-2014.
Also known as the e-Hijrah, the initiative enables the ministry to establish organisational structures for a more efficient and responsive ministry, said Minister of Education Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Dr Hj Abu Bakar Hj Apong.
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Richard Kerby, the inter-regional adviser on e-Government and Knowledge Management for the e-Government branch of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, explained that getting on social networking platforms will help the government connect with the media-savvy masses, especially the younger generation.
This, he said, would work alongside maintaining existing national online portals, where e-services are provided.
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"Brunei's (online) portals have a lot of information listed on them but not a lot of e-Government services," said Richard Kerby of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
The UN expert had been facilitating a two-day workshop on the Measurement and Evaluation Tool for e-Government Readiness, or Meter in short, at the golf course-side Bunker Meeting Room of the Empire Hotel and Country Club in Jerudong.
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