Bunker’s Empire Hotel
6 November 2008 3.15pm
Bismillaahir Rahmaanir Raheem
Alhamdullillah - Praise be to Allah the Al-Mighty and blessings upon our Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu’alayhi wa salam.
Your Excellency Dr. Lee, Kyung-Ja, Standing Commissioner of the Korean Communications Commission (KCC), Republic of Korea
Your Excellency Lee Yoon Soo, Vice President of the Korean IT International Cooperation Agency (KIICA), Republic of Korea
Your Excellency the Embassador of Republic of Korea to Brunei Darussalam, Mr Kim Dae Sik
Yang Mulia President of the Infocomm Federation of Brunei Darussalam (IFB) Pg Haji Mohammad
Chief
Executives and representatives of the private sector, heads of
departments and senior government officers, ladies and gentlemen
Assalamualaikum Warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh, salam sejahtera, a very good afternoon.
It
gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this KIICA Roadshow and
Convergence Forum this afternoon. I wish to first of all extent a very
warm welcome to Her Excellency Dr. Lee, Kyung-Ja, Standing Commissioner
of KCC, Republic of Korea and I thank Her Excellency for her kind
congratulatory remarks. I hope your first time visit here will be a
pleasant and memorable time.
My
special thanks go to the organizers of this forum for inviting me as
Guest of Honour to this Roadshow and subsequently the convergence forum –
its certainly a great privilege and I am graciously honoured. Thank you
so much for the kind gesture.
Today’s
roadshow and forum organized by KIICA and hosted by KCC, Republic of
Korea marks a follow-up milestone to the already existing close
relationship between Brunei Darussalam and the Republic of Korea. About a
couple of years ago in September 2006 saw the MoU signing between the
Ministry of Communications of Brunei Darussalam and the Ministry of
Information and Communications of the Republic of Korea then.
The
underlying principle of that signing was to promote closer cooperation
and exchange of information relating to ICT in accordance to our
relevant laws and regulations of respective countries on the basis of
equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit.
I’d
like to draw your attention to one of the cooperation activities that I
feel are quite relevant to today’s forum – at both the government to
government (or G2G) and business to business (B2B) perspectives –
firstly, we have the exchange of information on policies and
technologies in establishing the Information superhighway. Secondly the
MoU provision to jointly hold iCT fora, seminars and symposia, among
others. This is what we see this afternoon – a Convergence Forum jointly
organised by KIICA of Korea and IFB.
We
very much look forward to this mutually beneficial partnership for both
Brunei Darussalam and the Republic of Korea. And today I hope to see
this forum to particularly benefit our local ICT and media industry SMEs
in terms of being able to learn and tap the experiences and new
technologies that Korea has to share and offer. New developments and in
wireless technology as well as network security solutions and
applications are among many other significant areas of interest that the
forum can explore and deliberate to benefit participants here today. I
also hope this forum will serve as a platform for strengthening and
opening up networking opportunities between our local industry in Brunei
particularly the SMEs and the Korean ICT industry players.
Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen,
On
behalf of the Ministry of Communications, I now wish to take the
opportunity to put on record our highest appreciation to all those who
have cooperated in putting together their time, energy and great efforts
to make this forum happen today.
With
that, once again my warm welcome to HE Dr. Lee, Kyung-Ja, Standing
Commissioner of the Korean Communications Commission (KCC), Republic of
Korea and the rest of the Korean delegation.
Lastly, I wish this forum a great success and hope for a great and lively discussion amongst the participants!
Thank you. Wabillahi taufik walhidayah wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi Wabarakatuh.
