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Knowledge Hub (popularly called K-Hub)
supports the multimedia and creative industry
through programmes and activities that run in
partnership with Microsoft and Sesame World
Technology.
Awarding Creativity and Innovation
The nation’s highest competition award for
creativity and innovation is the Crown Prince
CIPTA Awards. Fittingly, CIPTA is a Malay
word which means “create” and CIPTA stands
for ‘Creative and Innovative Product and
Technological Advancement Awards’.
The CIPTA competition is sponsored by Brunei
LNG Sdn Bhd and coordinated by the premier
technology-based tertiary education institution
in the country, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.
Divided across several demographic and
institutional divisions, the CIPTA competition
has been making a push towards producing
creative and innovative designers, especially
youth, in science and technology to diversify
Brunei’s economy.
The CIPTA competition is open to participants
from other ASEAN countries. In 2017, the
competition received 47 entries, 10 of which
were from other ASEAN countries. It is hoped
the participation of other ASEAN countries
will inspire local competitors and set a new
benchmark of quality for future CIPTA awards.
Siemens
As a global powerhouse focussed on
electrification, automation and digitalisation,
Siemens is one of the world’s largest industrial
manufacturing company. Siemens set up its
office in Brunei in 1998 as a telecommunication
company known as Siemens Advance
Engineering Pte Ltd, Brunei Branch.
In November 2018, Siemens and the Ministry of
Development held the Joint Technical Seminar
on Operations Intelligence Platform and Smart
Water Meter Data Management System. The
seminar aimed to share knowledge regarding
new technologies employed in building and
asset management. It acted as a platform
for strategic collaboration in developing
mechanisms for sharing cost savings from new
technologies in asset management programmes
among the various agencies involved. In this
knowledge-sharing platform, experts addressed
problems related to assets, especially when
implementing such technologies.
“Digitalisation, connection and connectivity is
very important these days. How you maximise
your assets, production, manufacturing, go-to-
market; we have to embrace it,” said Siemens
Country Manager (Brunei) Kamaljit Singh Gill.
A key focus of the event was Siemens XHQ
Operations Intelligence, a digital platform
designed to bridge the worlds of operations
technology and information technology. The