Swordie Bloggie

I was attending a conference in the past 2 days… 3 – 4 July 2007. Its for the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the State Government Departments & Agencies. The theme is eGovernment for eService Delivery. I was attending as an ICT participant… so I’m not a CIO 🙂 It was held in The Pacific Sutera, Sutera Harbour Resort, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. The resorts consist of resort, golf, marina, spa and country club.

The ‘i’ in the iGoverment represents information, innovative and intelligent. And the ‘e’ in the eService represents excellent, efficient and effective.

There were 9 papers presented. Five papers were presented on the first day and 4 papers on the second day. Most of the papers presented are very relevant… except for 1 or 2 papers which are more on commercial or promotions of products… the products are either I already using or having the same product with other operator or brand.

During the Panel Discussion Session, I really like… or excited with the last word from one of the panel… from the Director (Sabah & Labuan Region) of Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) when he shared about the launching of a new office of one of the country’s cellular operator, DiGi. The new DiGi’s office consists of only 1 large room or hall. Inside the ‘hall’ are tables and chairs… only!… and WiFi!. They do not have rooms but one single large hall. Anyone can ‘park’ at any of the table to do their works… including the CEO, not exempted! Everyone carries their own notebook… wow, that is soooo cool yea… imagine that!

After 2 exhausting days of workshop… we will continue with the CIO Meeting tomorrow!!! I will attend as an observer for the CIO Meeting in the morning… then, after lunch, I will be attending the Technical Meeting…. waaaa….

Here are the pictures I’ve taken. I used my Casio Exilim EX-S500, so don’t expect very good quality pictures…

My colleagues… they are camera shy!