He was speaking at the event held yesterday to present the Sultan Qaboos Award for Excellence in eGovernment, which was held at the Grand Hall, Sultan Qaboos University Cultural Center.
Bill Clinton, former United States president was the keynote speaker at the event and His Highness Sayyid Shihab bin Tariq bin Taimur Al Said was the chief guest.
TRA has acquired the approval of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to have Omani domain name written using the Arabic alphabet, so websites with Arabic content now can have their domain names also in Arabic instead of having it written using the Latin alphabet.
HE Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidy, Chairman of the ITA Board of Directors, signed the agreement on behalf of ITA and, HE Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al Maimani, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for Administrative and Financial Affairs, signed on behalf of MoCI, in the presence of Dr. Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, ITA's Chief Executive Officer, and officials from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry among other distinguished guests.
Ali bin Masoud Al Sunaidy, chairman of the ITA board of directors, signed the agreement on behalf of ITA and, Ahmed bin Sulaiman Al Maimani, undersecretary of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry for Administrative and Financial Affairs, signed on behalf of MoCI, in presence of Dr Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, chief executive of ITA at a meeting held in the boardroom of ITA head offices.
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"Traditionally, Oman is not known to be an IT spender. But in recent years, it has improved due to increasing competition in the telecom industry and the launch of e-government projects," says Sam Alkharrat, managing director, SAP Middle East and North Africa. But areas such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), which integrates internal and external management information across an entire organisation, have seen very slow adoption. Oman sees three to four ERP implementations a year, mainly by the large conglomerates, says S Jayakumar, general manager, International Information Technology, a unit of OHI Group.