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The government of Brunei Darussalam should regularly maintain its web presence in order to sell the idea of e-government to its citizens, advised senior professionals from a leading IT company.

They were speaking to members of the press, following an e-Government conference yesterday, themed "Achieving Effective IT Management". The event, organised by international leading IT management solutions provider CA, saw an attendance of around 150 government officials. The company has been involved in Brunei Darussalam's e-Government projects for the past three years.

Read more: Brunei: 'For Strong E-Govt, Up-To-Date Web Presence Needed'

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Improved service through e-government implementation is envisioned in the near future where services and management of jurisdictions under the Ministry of Home Affairs would be fully conducted through an online system.

The ambitious plan was unveiled during the contract signing ceremony for the e-government project 'Supply, Delivery, Installation, Testing, Commissioning, Training and Maintenance of IT Facilities for Ministry of Home Affairs' between the ministry and the ZNet Technologies company.

Read more: Brunei: Home Affairs Ministry to be IT-savvy

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Images projected on buildings, sensory activated state-of-the-art lighting along the walkways and ubiquitous Internet access ... This is not Vegas; it is set to happen in the Klang Valley in 2008. This futuristic real estate project which covers over 72 acres is called i-City and is essentially the city for the digital age, a 21st century monument to the WiMAX generation.

Located along the Federal Highway in Shah Alam, the entire development is connected via high-speed broadband.

Read more: Brunei: Shah Alam has ambitions to be 'city of the future'

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Instead of accurate and up-to-date information about the government and its activities, the public is finding out that some websites of Brunei's ministries and government offices actually contain information that are more than a year old.

In fact, in some cases, the sites were last updated in 2005.

Read more: Brunei's websites need updating

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The Director of Institut Teknologi Brunei (ITB) said open source software such as Linux is much needed by the sultanate as it is handicapped by the lack of skilled human resources in ICT and the high cost of operating systems (OS), application software and licensing in its attempt to implement e-Government.

Dr Hj Kassim bin Hj Daud added that Linux operating system offers alternative solution because of its low cost towards providing software as well as its reliability.

Read more: Brunei: BlinxS establishment marks shift towards open source OS

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