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Government urged to lead use of Information
Technology Courtesy
of BruDirect By Nur
Abdullah
The seminar’s theme
“Managing Electronic Government in ASEAN Civil Service” chances to reinvent
the administration and governance of the Civil Service to give an efficient
and effective service delivery. Capacity building was also recommended for future implementation. This incorporated the
improvement of e-Education and e-Training for civil servants, the need for
existing resources to support civil servants to be more accessible within
ASEAN, and promotion of IT culture in the civil service. Citizens should have
access to Information Infrastructure; set up legal framework and policy for
secure e-Government Services; develop government applications and services;
set up standards for security, systems integration and interoperability;
public and private sector collaboration on e-government initiatives and
regional cooperation for the government. The seminar said. Song Kin Koi, a senior official from the Ministry of Communication
who chaired the Seminar said: “The end of this seminar
does not mean we stop here. The change
must begin in the civil service and the willingness of our civil servants to
possess the right foresight and to become an agent of change to participate
actively in the new global economy.” He said the seminar
identified several issues that might impede the uptake of e-government. These have to be
addressed objectively by the public sector, the private sector or the
community at large. “It is our hope that the
recommendation plan we are devising today could be considered favourably and
implemented by individual ASEAN member country’s leadership and through an
ASEAN mechanism and process,” said Song Kin Koi. Dato Paduka Hj Hazair bin Hj Abdullah, Permanent Secretary at the Prime Minister’s Dato Paduka Hj Zainal bin Hj Momin, Director-General of
the Public Service Department officiated the closing
ceremony. The Management Service Department, Prime
Minister’s Office, with assistance from the Ministry of Communications, organised
the seminar. The ASEAN Conference on
Civil Service Matters (ACCSM) ended yesterday. Based on the theme of
“Managing Electronic Government in ASEAN Civil Service”. The two days seminar was
attended by IT managers and enablers from Brunei Darussalam,
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