A range of government initiatives are driving ICT adoption in Oman, as the sultanate works to connect all homes and businesses to the national broadband network by 2040.
Sector growth is being driven in part by government efforts to promote connectivity, a key element of the broader Digital Oman Strategy (eOman) launched in 2003, which is focused on developing IT skills, digital literacy and e-government services.
Weiterlesen: Government initiatives underpin ICT growth in Oman
Digital Oman Strategy, spearheaded by the Information Technology Authority (ITA), had taken its cue from His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said’s great vision of transforming the country into a knowledge-based economy.
Dr Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, Chief Executive Officer of ITA, said this at a seminar organised by the College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU).
Dr Salim was delivering a talk on “E- Oman: towards a knowledge based economy”, at the Oman Knowledge Economy seminar recently.
Information Technology Authority (ITA), represented by Dr Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, chief executive officer of ITA, and Oman Broadband Company (OBC) represented by Eng. Said bin Abdullah Al Mantheri, chief executive officer of OBC signed an agreement to implement a private and resilient fibre optic backbone for Oman Government Network (OGN).
This agreement will be directly implemented to connect the current 63 government entities hosted by OGN providing high-speed connectivity and linked to the National Data Center at ITA in addition to another backup data centre.
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Pakistani expatriates in Oman will no longer have to wait in queues at the embassy to get national cards issued or renewed.
With the introduction of an online system, the embassy has stopped manual issuance of NICOP (National Identity Card for Overseas Pakistanis), CNIC (Computerised National Identity Card) and POC (Pakistan Origin Card) with effect from October 1. The processing time of these cards which earlier took three months, now takes only two days.
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Healthcare providers and researchers affiliated with the Ministry of Health have been encouraged to register on the ministry’s electronic library website, which would offer them access to thousands of e-journals and e-books free of cost.
The e-library started registration on February 8, 2015 and was officially launched on May 5, 2015, Safaa Al Hashmi, medical librarian at the ministry, told the Times of Oman.
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