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Institute for eGovernment

The Federal eGovernment team today discussed the latest developments in the implementation plan and the successful progress of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MOAF) eGovernment project.

The progress on the implementation was discussed with H.E. Saeed Bin Mohammad Al Ragabani, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries along with H.E Abdulla Aleter, Assistant Undersecretary for Human Resource, Finance and Information Technology at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. The meeting was attended by Dr. Emir Mavani, the Federal e-Government Programme Director and other officials.

The MOAF eGovernment project has been divided into 3 phases consisting of Stream 1, Stream 2 and Stream 3. In the Stream 1 phase, the objectives are to develop an ePortal and eGovernment eServices. Stream 1 has been divided into 3 further sub phases consisting of Wave 1, Wave 2 and Wave 3. During the meeting, the Minister complimented the team on the successful completion of Wave 1 of the project which saw business requirements and prototypes for 25 eServices being developed in just 5 weeks starting from July 2005. The soft launch of these services under Wave 1 will now be done by end of December 2005. A total of 46 eServices will be developed by the eGovernment team under Wave 2 and Wave 3 by mid next year.

According to HE Saeed Bin Mohammad Al Ragabani, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, 'I am extremely pleased with the rapid progress made by the eGovernment team on implementation of the eGovernment project at the Ministry. In particular, I would like to emphasize the importance of Stream 3 which is the Knowledge Management phase. This phase is highly essential as it will lead to qualitative change as knowledge gets harvested across the Ministry."

According to Mrs. Suad Abdullah, Deputy IT Manager, MOAF, 'The recording and viewing of statistical information in Stream 3 with regard to the eServices will help the Ministry to keep records and measure performance of these services. This will also help in feedback and analysis in order to improve these services.'

Stream 2 which is the second phase will lead to a full scale automation of the Ministry with connectivity of all of the MOAF physical branches across the Emirates through high speed Internet services. Stream 3 which is the third and last phase of the project is the Knowledge Management stream which is aimed at increasing learning and knowledge across all levels at the Ministry.

According to Ahmad Bin Ghannam, eGov Programme Deputy Director, eGovernment Team, 'We deeply appreciate the strong support of H.E. . Saeed Bin Mohammad Al Ragabani, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in this initiative. The key benefits from the roll out of this project will be the simplification and facilitation of customer interaction with the government, more stream-lined back end processes which will allow improved customer service ,reduced duplication of effort for the government entities involved in the processing, reduced service provisioning costs and improved access to data and information.'

Autor: Anne-Birte Stensgaard

Quelle: AME Info, 01.11.2005