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ICT
Seminars on Networking solutions Courtesy
of Brudirect.com By Rosli Abidin Yahya
Kuala Belait - More than 70 Information and Communications Technology-related staff
from the public and private sectors attended a half-day seminar designed to familiarise them with the development of e-government
held yesterday morning at the Riverview Hotel, Gadong.
Organised by a local company Gigabyte
Networking Services and Singapore's Fluke Networks, the ICT seminar on
networking solutions was attended by mainly ICT related staff from the
Ministry of Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Telecommunications Department, Prime Minister's
Department, Universiti Brunei Damssalam,
Institut Teknologi Brunei
and Radio Television Brunei. Staff of Brunei Shell Petroleum,
Brunei LNG, DSTCom, IDBB and NBT ( The participants mainly
learned on network health and analysis delivered by a speaker from According to David Ting
of Gigabyte Networking Services, the seminar was mainly attended by ICT staff
relevant towards e-government solution in software and hardware towards
maintaining network health. The seminar was also
meant to prepare civil servants for a major and extensive change-management
process that will involve all tiers within the government departments and the
population. This will involve
various aspects of information giving and information sharing, training and
retraining and the full verbal commitment of all levels of the civil service.
He added that in light
of this, the new technology demands new skills, changes in mindset, economic
and social policies as well as the shift in cultural norms. Industry observers
meanwhile stated that ICT has contributed to the development of good
governance which is characterised by high standards
of transparency, accountability and access. -- Courtesy of
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