UNDP/Yemen and the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology (MTIT), in cooperation with UN ESCWA, is organizing a regional workshop on electronic government to be held Dec. 1 to 3, at the Telecommunications and Information Technology City in Sana’a.
The workshop will address major issues facing public administration reform efforts and the establishment of e-government in Yemen, with focus on supporting electronic tools. It also will highlight lessons learned from previous programs in these regards and will identify areas where UNDP/Yemen and ESCWA can have tangible impact in supporting the development of e-government in Yemen.
One of the diseases that developing countries – Arab countries in particular - have in common, is an agonizing bureaucracy. How many times have you experienced waiting in a long queue to process your paper work, while governmental employees are chatting with each other and sipping their morning tea?
How many times have you tried to have an employee hurry up in signing the papers as you still have plenty of other work to do, and see this employ looking over the papers of another file and laughing with his fellow employee and eventually tells you, “I guess you will have to come tomorrow?”