Pengiran Dato Paduka Haji Hamid, Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister's Office, spelled this out in his working paper on the spearheading k-Economy through e-Government in Brunei. The paper was presented at the k-Economy International Conference which continued yesterday with several concurrent sessions in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), human resource development, small and medium enterprises and e-government.
He said, His Majesty's government is hoping to establish an electronic governance in serving the nation better.
Meantime, Dato Awang Haji Abdullah, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Communication, in his working paper entitled 'Laying the infrastructure foundation for the k-Economy in Brunei Darussalam' focused on the information and communication technology.
According to him, nowadays business to business is being done more through online purchasing.
A graph in the United States of America from 1998 until 2004 showed online sales is increasingly by more than eight trillion in the year 2000 and 12 trillion by the year 2004.
Internet, he said, is globally used. And, there are about 100,000 internet users in Brunei.
Singapore and United States of America showed a largest number of internet users with more than 500,000.
Quelle: Brunei Direct
