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Furthermore, there are several projects under
the Digital Economy Masterplan 2025 to trigger
the digital transformation process, said Minister
of Transport and Infocommunications Dato Seri
Setia Awang Abdul Mutalib bin Pehin Orang
Kaya Seri Setia Dato Paduka Haji Mohd Yusof
at a dialogue session with Legislative Council
(LegCo) members on January 13, 2021.
The projects include: the National Information
Hub as an easy information sharing platform;
digital ID to enable public access to government
services at any time; and Digital Payment Hub
to ease payment processes using smart devices.
IoT services for Brunei market
Brunei has seen a promising take-up of digital
solutions resulting from the current global
pandemic, such as e-learning, home office,
contact tracing application, and systems
powered by artificial intelligence.
Unified National Networks (UNN) has been at
the forefront in helping facilitate some of the
abovementioned solutions in the country. UNN
recently introduced a new Internet of Things (IoT)
service to deliver data only network access over
the mobile network.
The proposition offers machine-to-machine
(M2M) capabilities for devices to communicate
with each other to exchange information in
a one-to-one environment — with dedicated
centralised servers for data collection and
processing.
The IoT services enable a wide range of
applications such as monitoring an equipment
status or usage and keeping track of physical
assets. Given its broad usage, IoT services can
be applied to applications such as smart meters,
smart-parking systems, geo-location tracking
and crop monitoring.
With the successful introduction of this new
solution, UNN hopes to enable a more widespread
uptake of M2M deployment as part of its long-
term provision of IoT services offered through the
telecommunication companies in Brunei.
Bruneians rank high in social media
usage
According to the Digital 2020 Report by We are
Social and Hootsuite, the Instagram reach in
Brunei amounts to 210,000 people, equal to 60
per cent of the population. This makes Brunei
the third highest in the world for Instagram
advertising reach rate in terms of population
ratio and eligible audience aged above 13.
As for the Facebook reach rate, Brunei is the 10th
highest globally, with 89 per cent or 310,000
users (13 years and above) in terms of population
ratio. The report also states that Brunei is the
second highest in terms of social media use by
eligible audiences (13 years and above), with use
rate of 117 per cent or 410,000 users. Regardless
of age, Brunei ranked fourth globally with 94 per
cent (410,000 users).
Meanwhile, women in Brunei constitute the
sixth highest users of Twitter, amounting to 60
per cent or 48,400 based on population ratio,
after the Philippines (86 per cent), Thailand (78
per cent), Indonesia (68 per cent), Malaysia (67
per cent) and Laos (64 per cent).
Cybersecurity as top priority
Headed by an interim Commissioner, Cyber
Security Brunei (CSB) started operations on
August 1, 2020 as the national cybersecurity
agency. The CSB monitors and coordinates
national efforts in addressing cybersecurity
threats and cybercrimes. It is through CSB that
strategies, policies and framework governing
cybersecurity are formulated and implemented.
With its vision of ensuring a secure and resilient
cyberspace in the country, CSB carries out three
main services: Brunei Computer Emergency
Response Team (BruCERT), National Digital
Forensic Laboratory and Cyber Watch Centre
(CWC).