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Booking sports venues, applying for marriage registration, searching government job vacancies, filling in tax returns, or even scanning government news, Hong Kong residents are familiar with all kinds of Government e-services.
Even when keying in confidential data, they can rest assured: These convenient e-services are well-managed by a professional information technology unit - the Central Computer Centre of the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer.
It stores huge amounts of important, and personal, data and ensures it is secure against hackers and viruses. It provides the infrastructural services for news.gov.hk, the GovHK portal, and a majority of government web sites, as well as Internet connectivity and communication between government staff and the public, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The centre's efforts have not gone unnoticed. The Office of the Government Chief Information Officer has been awarded ISO/IEC 20000 certification for the its data centre services, the first and only Hong Kong government organisation to achieve international recognition for its information technology service-management standards.
The story and video were published at www.news.gov.hk today (June 26).
Ends/Sunday, June 26, 2011
Issued at HKT 11:20
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