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Institute for eGovernment

E-Hijrah focuses on both the structural elements of ICT, such as devices and networks, and the essence of ICT which is to improve the quality of education from improving learning opportunities to making the Ministry more efficient. The Minister of Education, Yang Berhormat Pehin Orang Kaya Seri Kerna Dato Seri Setia Haji Awang Abu Bakar bin Haji Apong stressed the matter in his keynote address at the launch of the e-Hijrah initiative, this afternoon.

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Brunei needs to focus on providing more e-Government services and improving the delivery of such services, which the Sultanate is lacking, said a United Nations (UN) inter-regional adviser on e-Government yesterday.

"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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The Brunei government should capitalise on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to reach out to the people in the country's drive to promote and develop e-government, a United Nations e-government expert said here yesterday.

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.

Weiterlesen: Want To Develop E-Govt? Use Facebook, Twitter, Brunei Told

The Brunei Government needs to embrace social networking tools such as Facebook, so as to bridge the gap between the public and government ministries.

This was a recommendation made by an expert from the United Nations, Richard Kerby, Senior Inter-Regional Advisor from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, speaking to the media.

Kerby, who is in Brunei to conduct a two-day workshop `Measurement and Evaluation Tool for e-Government Readiness (METER)' spoke to the media on the importance of social networking tools such as Facebook, blogs and Twitter as a way of improving the Brunei Government's e-services.

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