Tuesday 23 September 2008

BLESS the Convenience

I was getting tired lately with all those political talks about how and when the opposition will gain enough support to form a new government and how the current government continue to try not to be funny but a headline like "Malaysia hoping to get into top 10 of World Bank ranking" is certainly refreshing for a change. The initiative Business Licensing Electronic Support System or BLESS is meant to speed things up by providing information and other facilities for license applications. According to the article, it was launched by the Prime Minister on 5 September and had since received 9 applications. And since its soft launch in May, it had some 32,000 hits.

So, out of curiosity, I went to the website and found this (as of 2153 hours):
I hope this is not an indication of any efficiency issues but instead it is down for further improvement. ;)