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ICT projects to boost employment Courtesy of
The $1 billion budget will see the implementation
of several projects over a period of time, which will create jobs along the
way and also encourage the private sector to venture in the IT and IT related
businesses. Subsequently, many people are optimistic of these
ICT projects, stating that the $1 billion budget will also create other
non-IT jobs such as in the fields of administration, marketing, finance and
public relations. Because most of the projects are reserved for the
full establishment of e-government, most of the future ICT related job
vacancies will be in the public sector, anonymous sources stated. They said job opportunities are largely to come
from the implementation of the Sultanate's first Meanwhile, the e-government and other government
ICT projects kicked off recently had, according to an official, created more
than 70 job vacancies.
"You can see the large number of vacancies
that can be created in the future," said an official. He also said that most of the recruitment was
taken from the local graduates from both local and overseas institutions who
are skilled in various IT related fields from software programming to
multimedia management.
When completed, the The industrial sector has positively welcomed the
timely creation of a cyber park which has created a lot of enthusiasm and
excitement among the businessmen in the country. "I can see that the Recently, about 40 foreign IT related businesses
have shown their interest in "It will serve as an enabler, enabling the
government and individual citizens to improve quality of life and to achieve
a sustainable economic growth," he commented. The establishment of the The creativity and innovations are already
leading the way, an industrial source said. The IT culture has actually been
long existing in Thousands of growing teens and those who are
graduating are already accustomed with IT and are comfortable with it. There
are thousands of growing teenagers who are already quite savvy in many
multimedia fields, encouragingly even in CGI development and alarmingly in
computer hacking as well. And industrial sources indicated that most of
these people in the Sultanate are either currently unemployed or working in
totally different areas, because they have nowhere to go with their talents. Local institutions too are now trying to introduce
more IT related courses with the hope of producing a large pool of IT skilled
workers in the future. For instance, UBD has recently said it will diversify
its IT courses. Brunei Chamber of Commerce (BCC), on the other
hand, stated that what the Sultanate needs is an infrastructure to
accommodate these interests and the There are three fundamental elements for the
country to leapfrog into the ICT industry and to gain the interest of FDI. "We are going to have an excellent
infrastructure, to have a good pool of human resources, but there is a lack
of contents," BCC said. The contents, it said, are still in need of
improvement and the $1 billion budget can do a lot for the development of IT contents
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