E-services to be introduced will include tenancy agreement and its renewal and payment of parking fees and fines; several more will be added at a later stage, Muscut Municipality officials said.
Mohammed bin Salim Al Braiki, Deputy Director at the Information Technology Department, said the new move would enhance quality and speed of services provided by the municipality to the level of those currently offered by other government organisations in the country.
The municipality announced its new package of e-services at a function to mark the opening of its pavilion at ‘Comex 2011’, Oman’s annual IT and telecom show at the Oman International Exhibition Centre. The municipality is running a competition on its new services during the exhibition and the winners will receive prizes.
Some 120 companies from around the globe are participating in the fair, held this year under the theme ‘Shift to e’, organised by the Information Technology Authority (ITA). Leading participants include Microsoft, Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei, Samsung, Fujitsu, Toshiba, Fujifilm, Omantel, Nawras, and MHD.
Official delegations from several countries, including Bahrain, the UAE, Spain, Singapore, and the Baltic state of Estonia, are also taking part in the show that will end on Friday.
Once part of the USSR, Estonia, a first time participant, was one of the first countries to become an ‘e-state’. Citizens of the country routinely pay their taxes online and can even partake in national parliamentary elections with a digital vote.
Most official forms one would ever need to complete and submit to any government agency, from applications for child subsidies to marriage registrations, from school place or pension applications to presenting a claim to the labour dispute commission, can be downloaded and submitted online. The state portal uses approximately 60 databases and offers some 600 different government eServices.
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Quelle/Source: Khaleej Times, 28.04.2011
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