The e-Portal is the federal government electronic gateway that offers a wide range of government information and services. Dr. Mohamed Emir Mavani, e-Government Project Director at MOFI said that the launch of the e-Portal is a vital step towards implementing the overall federal e-Government project, serving to establish an e-Government system that will provide the high levels of performance and efficiency to the citizens of the country.
The e-Portal will increase coordination and integration among ministries and government agencies to provide level of accuracy and speed in serving customers. It will also enhance individual and cross-departmental collaboration, improve public interaction and involvement, and provide a centralised content management for all government ministries and entities with decentralised e-Services, he said.
The main page of the portal has been designed both in Arabic and English. It will be a friendly government interface with businesses and individuals.
Maha Al Aidarous, Deputy Director of Information Systems Department at MoFI and e-Portal Project Manager, said that the objective during the first phase is to establish an e-Government single-entry portal, develop concept, high-level introductory content, and provide links to participating ministries and related portals. "Enhancing the information content, developing content specific to high-frequency services, and introducing access to limited online services are the projected milestones of the second phase," he said.
The third phase of the e-Portal implementation will witness the launch content management applications, define content types, sources and workflows, expand portal structure to include participating ministries, and add service downloadable forms. The fourth phase will be a transition to transactional services where transaction tracking for existing services will be introduced, user feedback will be solicited, and traffic and visitor patterns will be reviewed for input into the next phase.
When the fifth phase of the e-Portal will be completed, administrators will be able to add personalised notifications and alerts, develop content specific to address feedback and patterns from previous phase, and add advanced indexing and cross referencing capabilities for ministries portal content. The e-Portal project will come to an end during the sixth phase.
Quelle: MENAFN, 14.03.2005
