Bahrain is currently preparing to switch over fully from paperwork to the e-government network, to help save time, energy and manpower and to improve services to the people.
"If the network is beneficial to the people, then it should be so to workers," said Civil Service Bureau (CSB) deputy head Ahmed Al Bahar. "The world is seeing major changes and what we used to consider conventional training methods have become old-fashioned and out-of-date, he said. Online training will be in co-ordination with well-known institutions and universities, said Mr Al Bahar.
He was speaking at the opening of workshop on distant e-learning, at the Diplomat Radisson SAS Hotel.
The two-day event has been organised by CSB, under the patronage of its head Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Khalifa.
Participants are human resources and manpower officials from all of Bahrain's ministries and government organisations.
Mr Al Bahar said that the CSB had already started work to improve the manpower database (called Horizon) linking all ministries and government organisations and the CSB.
"This is just the beginning and soon training will be part of the network and we hope the training provided will help our workers develop and enhance their capabilities," he said.
Yesterday's event included presentations of papers by Batelco's marketing director Enas Al Fardan, Arab Open University e-learning supervisor Fatima Al Shaer, academic supervisor Hisham Al Aseeri and Labour Ministry manpower development head Ahmed Al Banna, on their experiences with distant e-learning.
Presentations resume today with Bahrain University E-learning Centre electronic educational materials designer Mariam Haji, Central Informatics Organisation computer operations director Mohammed Al Qaeed and CBS development and training director Mahmood Al Tublani.
Autor: Mohammed Al A'Ali
Quelle: Gulf Daily News, 26.07.2005
