KUCHING: Ministry of Women, Early Childhood and Community Wellbeing Development has won the Digital Government Services award (Gold) at this year’s London Design Awards in the United Kingdom for the iSarawakCare web application.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Fatimah Abdullah received the award from founder and chairman of BETTER FUTURE Mark Bergin
Also present during the awards were director of the Welfare Department Noriah Ahmad.
This award is also Sarawak’s first win in the London Design Awards 2022 for Digital-Government Services.
The application, which is known for its convenience, offers access to government initiatives, assistance, services covering inter-generation spectrum and social equity in the community through the ministry.
The web application also allows the ministry to modify, amend, update, delete existing, or add future initiatives.
Its platform’s online nature allows the public to submit applications at any time and from any location, while also giving real-time updates between system administrators and the public on the updates of the government’s programmes.
“Living up to its tagline of “One Click at Your Service”, the iSarawakCare portal is integrated with existing systems in Sarawak such as SarawakNet, SarawakID, State Treasury, banks as well as federal government systems to ease the processes across all platforms involved.
