The three-day event was organised by the Malaysian Administrative Modernisation and Management Planning Unit (MAMPU) to promote various e- Government services.
Those who participated included the Public Services Department, Road Transport Department (JPJ), the Implementation Coordination Unit (ICU), the Inland Revenue Board and the Finance Ministry.
Experts were at hand to provide in-depth information on the technologies and solutions used in their systems. Visitors were also invited to test some of these applications that are available to the public.
The Public Services Department for instance showed off its Pensions Online Workflow Environment system or POWER for short, which is utilised by the agency to streamline the civil servant pension processes.
Thanks to the solution, pensioners are now able to cash in their pension as early as one week after they have retired.
Previously, the payment would only start two to three months later.
Purchasing of goods by the various government agencies are now done through the ePerolehan, which is under the purview of the Finance Ministry.
Initiated in 2000, two more modules, Price Quotations and Tender, will be introduced soon to the current four which include supplier registration and central contract.
The agency hopes the additional modules will be able to improve the procurement process as well as products overpriced by suppliers since all related information pertaining to the deal are now traceable by the system.
Finally, Malaysians whose driving licences have expired for more than a year could now renew them via the Road Transport Department's e-Rayuan online application.
JPJ's deputy director of the driving licence department Wong Yau Duenn said the application was developed in-house by the agency’s IT department and it enables JPJ to cut down the processing time from a month to just a week.
For more information, log in to my Government portal www.gov.my.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Zam Karim
Quelle/Source: The Malaysia Star, 30.08.2008
