"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.
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"Its in the pipeline and we are hoping to achieve something within this year," said the acting director of the e-Government National Centre (EGNC).
Hjh Mariah Hj Mohd Taha disclosed this to The Brunei Times yesterday during the three-day International Conference on e-Government and Administrative Simplification, co. organised by the Prime Minister's Office and OECD Korea Policy Centre.
Three invited speakers offered their take on the overall topic of Effective and Efficient Strategies for e-Government Building, yesterday morning. The purpose of the session was to explore how respective countries have set their strategies in an effective and efficient way in regards to the development of e-governance. The session was seen as a discussion of topics under the "administrative simplification" component of the conference.
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Haiyan Qian, director of UN’s Division for Public Administration and Development Management under the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, said that this year Brunei has been ranked 68th out 192 UN member states surveyed for the development of their respective e-governments. In 2008, Brunei ranked 87th.
Sanjiv Mind, who delivered the keynote speech during the opening of the International Conference on e-Government and Administrative Simplification, said governments had tendencies to focus more on introducing [CT infrastructure in all aspects of government.
However, this diverted attention away from one of the main purposes of implementing e-government, which was to make the government and its services more accessible to the stakeholders and increase its efficiency, he pointed out.