Sheikh Salim bin Aufait Al Shanfari toured the ITA exhibition and attended the eOman awareness session which was held as part of the ITA’s initiatives to create awareness about ‘Digital Oman’.
Mohammed bin Nasser Al Khusaibi, ITA chairman and secretary-general of the Ministry of National Economy, signed the agreement on behalf of ITA.
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The e-payment gateway, ITA sources said, would be operational in line with Oman’s forthcoming e-government gateway called the UBAR portal. It will support multiple acquiring banks. To facilitate this mechanism, ITA yesterday signed agreements with MasterCard Worldwide and BankMuscat to launch the ‘national e-payment gateway’ to provide an e-governance infrastructure and full e-commerce facilities that allow secure online payments.
Measures are under way, in the meantime, to tackle two major impediments confronting the campaign — institutional bottlenecks and shortage of skilled manpower. Also, an ‘eOman Awareness Road Show’, which visited all the region's of the country from May 17 last year to February 17, 2007, is poised for its second stage soon that will be “more intensive and interactive.”
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The state-of-the-art e-payment solution will support the delivery of e-services of the public sector and will also assist the private sector's moves into e-commerce. ePG will enable efficient electronic transactions and simplify the processing of payment transactions for electronic services within the country. It will be operational in line with Oman's forthcoming e-Government Gateway, the UBAR Portal.
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