Cisco Systems is organising the event in partnership with the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), under the patronage of Royal Court head Shaikh Mohammed bin Ateyatalla Al Khalifa.
The centre, designed to help governments across the GCC establish and roll out e-government projects, is being created jointly by the Central Informatics Organisation (CIO), IBM and Gulf Business Machines (GBM).
He told the Tribune that Bahrain has taken various steps to embrace e-government. "A lot of things are happening, paving the way for digital economy or e-government. Since this requires legislation and tackling of other issues, it would be appropriate that Government officials announce the exact timeframe," he said.
Bahrain has successfully implemented the first phase of a collaborative e-government project with Microsoft, paving the way for the government's full use of a new active directory based on the MS Windows 2003 server.