More than 200 participants representing a wide range of public and private institutions, alongside international lecturers from Spain, Sweden and Malaysia, as well as a number of IT specialists from ITA took part in the symposium.
The agenda for the second day included three presentations. The first paper was delivered by Kim Andreasson, Managing Director of DAKA Advisory. He talked about best policy recommendations to enhance the performance of eGovernment services, eGovernment measurements and re-engineering to achieve excellence. Andreasson also highlighted the issue of building capacity to develop eGovernment strategies, involving benchmarking, and public sector awareness about statistical concepts.
Andreasson identified the Sultanate's position in using eGovernment services, saying: "According to the stages and the UN overall ranking, Oman has been progressing very nicely in the last couple of years and, specifically, in the online services index which matches the availability of eGovernment services. Oman progressed from 55th in 2010 to 35th in 2012 and this can be broken down by the different stages of eGovernment. Oman is doing extremely well in the first and second stages, which are the basic website presence and enhanced website presence.
"Now, the challenge for Oman is in the third and fourth stages relating to transactions and connected governance. In the last two stages, people start to see connectivity between not only citizens and government and government and citizens, but also between government and departments. Oman is in a good position in eGovernment since it is moving up and taking the right decisions. Looking forward, I see that Oman has a strategic plan in achieving eGovernment, since it is now in the stages that requires complex implementation."
Matthew Rajendra, Regional Director, Green Computing Institute, Malaysia, presented the second paper which dealt with Green ICT and methods of ensuring efficient and sustainable use of information and communications technology in ways that are eco-friendly. Rajendra talked about creating an Oman knowledge society in a responsible way through the efficient and sustainable use of ICT, and ownership and adherence to national standards in Green Computing by establishing a wider framework for sustainable progress.
Talking about the ITA's efforts to encourage the OGD, Fatma Al Riyami, Director Operation Excellence at ITA said: "The OGD portal has been launched at the Official eGovernment Services Portal (Omanuna) www.oman.om, and currently it contains data on 55 issues including education, business, ICT use criteria, laws and decrees. More open data will be added later on.
Currently, we are working on implementing a Big Data Competition for the best ideas using open data and its details will be announced soon."
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Quelle/Source: Times of Oman, 08.06.2013
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