His Excellency Dr Khalfan bin Kharbash, UAE Minister of State for Finance and Industry, and Chairman of the Steering Committee said that the 450 different services currently being reviewed for 'readiness' are being assessed according to specific factors. "Those services selected are chosen on the basis of five criteria: their ability to be integrated into government systems, their level of coverage, how "doable" they are, how "measureable" they are and how "transformational" they are. The chosen projects represent high value added opportunities that will make a tangible contribution to the e-government transformation process."
Projects will also be assessed on the basis of costs, challenges and schedules as well as the expected benefits. Implementation will take place in 2004 under the second phase of the e-Government Project. In parallel, members of the IT team will also prepare new Intranet and Internet standards which will define IT operational policies for managing all e-Government activities.
Mr Musabah Al-Suwaidi, Assistant Undersecretary for Information Systems and Administration of the Ministry of Finance and Industry, thanked the various ministry representatives for attending the meeting. "We are very pleased with the level of commitment we have seen thus far from all our colleagues," he said. "There has been an excellent and very active contribution in terms of data collection and we very much hope that we continue to see this level of cooperation in the coming months."
Federal entities have been actively participating in three data gathering cycles covering both their business and IT set up. The main focus of the data collected was the services currently being offered by the government to business (G2B), public (G2P) and other government entities (G2G).
Various ministry officials in addition to other members of the managing team including IBM Business Consulting Services and Smart Square, the project manager, attended the meeting. The overall project involves all ministries, authorities, institutes and agencies of the UAE Federal Government.
A clear and strategic selection process was developed at the last meeting of the Steering Committee held in Abu Dhabi on 11 May. During the meeting criteria for the future selection of e-Government related opportunities for implementation were defined. The UAE Government has undertaken extensive studies to build a comprehensive e-Government and has visited other countries undertaking similar initiatives to draw on their experiences. An official government delegation visited Australia and New Zealand to discuss implementation priorities for e-government.
The Steering Committee was established under a cabinet resolution (1/631/2001) of the UAE Federal Government.
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