III. Internet Resource Centre, and Central Internet Gateway Support Team
14. The Internet Resource Centre (ˇ§IRCˇ¨) has been set up since March 1997 under the Information Services Department to provide assistance to bureaux and departments that wish to set up or improve their own homepages.
15. With the setting up of both English and Chinese homepages by bureaux and departments, IRC has fulfilled its mission in the initial development of Government homepages. IRC now assumes the role of monitoring Government homepages and advising bureaux and departments on effective use of homepages in information dissemination.
16. Most government homepages are hosted in the Central Internet Gateway (ˇ§CIGˇ¨) System supported by the CIG Support Team. Services provided include -
- architecture design, development and enhancement of the system;
- system maintenance and daily operation support;
- technical advice and consultancy services for bureaux/departments on web projects; and
- Internet domain name hosting services for government homepages.
Updated information is available in ITG Infostation and CCGO.
17. As an overview, Government homepages hosted in the CIG are provided with the following services -
- statistics on visitors to their websites (http://gicstat.info.gov.hk);
- search function for information in their homepages; and
- testing environment before homepages are launched.
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