To explain the details of the fourth edition of this award, the ITA held a workshop on Tuesday. About 120 participants represented around 45 governments, private institutions, and SMEs at the workshop.
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Nasser Bin Humaid Al Khayari, Director General of Administrative and Financial Affairs at the ministry and Head of the Digital Shift Plan, said that the ministry’s site is an addition to the e-Oman society systems until achieving the prospective e-government. The website will allow the ministry’s employees to process their transaction from anywhere – within or outside the Sultanate.
For the past several years, Oman has been experiencing strong growth of mobile broadband, but has been lagging behind other regional countries in terms of fixed broadband availability. In October 2013, the Council of Ministers announced their decision to establish a new company to provide broadband infrastructure and services to all residents in the Sultanate. This new company, Oman Broadband Company (OBC), started operations in January this year.
Said al Mandhari, CEO, OBC, spoke exclusively to the Observer in detail about the overall contribution of broadband to the national economies, along with the structure and vision of OBC.
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This project is considered to be an integral part of the e-government programme of the Sultanate’s administration which will reduce efforts and time spent in going back several times to the institutions in order to complete transactions.
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