Deputy Premier and President of the Supreme Council for Education and Training Development HH Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa will patronise the fifth International e-Learning Conference, the biggest scientific event to be hosted by the kingdom.
Organised by the University of Bahrain (UoB)'s Zain e-Learning Centre, the three-day conference will kick-off on Sunday at 9:00 am and run until October 20, and will attract a group of international e-learning experts. Who will discuss the best means to develop e-learning through more than 100 research papers selected among 150.
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The Director of Information Technology at the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs & Urban Planning, Hisham Sater, said 3995 users accessed the ministry’s 10 electronic services during the third quarter of 2015.
He added the total number of users registered from the beginning of the year until September was 14,515 and that the services can be accessed through both the ministry’s portal www.works.gov.bh, and the e-Government Portal www.bahrain.bh.
The number of users for the 10 electronic services at Bahrain's Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning reached 10,284 during the first half of the year.
The services can be accessed through both the Ministry's portal and the e-Government portal, said a statement.
Hisham Sater, information technology director at the Ministry, said that the statistics revealed that the Materials Testing Results Services targeted the highest number of users with 7,572 users, after which came the Traffic Diversion Request e-Service with 2,114 users, and then the Material/Product Assessment eService with 284 users.
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His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister today chaired a meeting of the Executive Committee, during which additional efforts to strengthen the Kingdom’s fiscal position were discussed. The discussions follow His Majesty King Hamad's directives to form a downsized government in order to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across government, without adversely affecting citizens’ standard of living.
Following the meeting, the Executive Committee announced that during the next Cabinet meeting it will put forward a recommendation regarding the integration of ten government entities, to ensure optimum public spending.
Information Technology Director at the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs & Urban Planning Hisham Sater revealed that the number of users of the Ministry’s 10 electronic services during the first half of 2015 reached 10,284.
The services can be accessed through both the Ministry’s portal www.works.gov.bh, and the eGovernment portal www.bahrain.bh.
According to Sater, statistics revealed that the Materials Testing Results Services targeted the highest number of users with 7,572 users, after which came the Traffic Diversion Request eService with 2114 users, and then the Material/Product Assessment eService with 284 users. The remaining number of users used the rest of the electronic services available which are the report road fault, sanitary maintenance request, sanitary connection request, traffic signals request, abnormal load permission, contractor pre-qualification, traffic diversion request and building maintenance request.
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