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Monitoring rural projects online in Malaysia

In Malaysia, the web portal “I Cerve U” for villages was launched concurrently by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi with the e-merah system, which is the district profiling database.

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The portal was designed for rural folks to keep tabs on the status of development within their own community, says Tan Sri Khalid Ramli, director-general of Implementation Coordination Unit. It contains a list of public infrastructure in areas such as clinics, roads and housing. Also, the portal had a directory of links to services that would be useful to the residents such as employment and study opportunities.

In 2005, an information-sharing web portal Pakistan Relief and Information Systems for Earthquakes (RISE) was launched to provide information about the 4,000 earthquake-affected in Pakistan.

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