The forum was held to promote and enhance awareness in e-government for the region, with specific focus given to discussions relating to some of the success stories in Singapore and their contributing factors. A specially invited speaker from Singapore's Crimson Logic, Mr. Tan Sian Lip, the Business Development Director of Crimson Logic delivered a comprehensive presentation on the approach to e-government.
Mr Tan started the presentation with a background of Crimson Logic detailing the company's objectives and successful IT projects that they have undertaken.
He proceeded to touch on issues of e-government where he said that e-government in Brunei and Singapore are similar but with a different path.
He added that Singapore had introduced e-government project for the past two decades and now Brunei is embarking on the same project.
He said that in these age of technologies and benchmarking with other successful e-government projects, Brunei could find a better and smoother approach to e-government and achieve an even better result. He then outlined some of the many opportunities and issues relating to e-government. The talk ended with a discussion session.
I-tea@UBD is a series of forums aimed at sharing of best practise, enhancing awareness and discussing issues related to ICT development within and outside Brunei Darussalam. The co-ordinating committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) always welcome suggestion and topics for the forum and look forward in hosting more forums in year 2004.
Also present at the talk was Mr Yong Chee Tuan, Director of ICTI, UBD.
Quelle: Borneo Bulletin, 05.04.2004
