This past January and February, two Bruneian delegations headed by both the Brunei Prime Minister || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || s Office and the Ministry of Communication and other related government organizations, visited NIA to learn more about advanced Korean e-government system and policy through a study tour. This study tour about e-government was proceeding under the agreement consented in the 1st Korea-Brunei IT Cooperative Committee that took place last October, 2011.
In January, the first delegation from Brunei had seminars at NIA that concentrated on various e-government topics such as; history of Korean e-government, administrative information sharing, e-procurement, e-government standard framework, etc…In February, the second delegation had seminars on these topics as well as other such as Green IT policy, smart work project and new strategy of Korean e-government and in addition also visited the National Computing & Information Agency(NCIA- Government Information Data Center), Public Procurement Service in Daejeon and Information Village in Gyeonggi Province where they were able to see the operations and get a real feel of various e-government applications and e-services at these project sites.
Korea || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || s Ministry of Public Administration and Security (MOPAS) and Bruneian Prime Minister || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || s Office signed a bilateral MOU for the informatization cooperation back in 2010. Last February 2011, it was agreed that there was a necessity to enhance the cooperation of e-government and at the Minister || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || || chr(39) || s Conference that took place soon after in April 2011, the Policy Advisory Group was dispatched to Brunei in order to find the cooperative projects.
In order to propel more detailed cooperative projects, both countries have confirmed nine collaborative projects including Consulting Service for the Brunei e-government and education program in the 1st Korea-Brunei IT Cooperative Committee, October 2011. These collaborative projects have been proceeding through various ongoing Working Group meetings between both Korea and Brunei.